Choice Quotes

The difference between a professional victim and an empowered person is NOT what has happened to them, but the way in which they REACT to what has happened to them.

~ Miya Yamanouchi

Each of us have a choice to make. Will we choose to achieve our dreams or will we choose to allow others to use us to achieve their dreams.

~ John Patrick Hickey

One good wish changes nothing. But one good decision changes everything. Your power to choose, to make a good decision, spells the difference between wishing and making real life changes.

~ Steve Goodier

If I’m chasing the wrong thing, what I’m chasing will end up chasing me. And in the end, I’m less likely to be the one doing the catching.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

It is unwise to waste in thought what could be earned and secured in action.

~ A.j. Darkholme

It is often by a trivial, even an anecdotal decision, that we direct our activities into a certain channel, and thus determine which of the potential expressions of our individuality become manifest. Usually we know nothing of the ultimate orientation or of the outlet toward which we travel, and the stream sweeps us to a formula of life from which there is no returning. Every decision is like a murder, and our march forward is over the stillborn bodies of all our possible selves that will never be.

~ René Dubos

Ego is borne of the need to ‘prove’ oneself instead of making the choice to ‘be’ oneself. And so maybe we need to begin curbing the birthrate.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Life isn't only about choice. Life is about how you provide value to your life and others.

~ Launa Rissadia

The world is changeable, and its ability to change is so fragile that a single person can be responsible for it.

~ A.j. Darkholme

We are but cells living in a much larger organism, however, this does not make our existence less significant – for an organism without cells is no organism at all. We define it; we make it what it is. We are responsible for its health, its functionality, and above all, its purpose. A lone cell can restore the others, or a lone cell can spread a plague.

~ A.j. Darkholme

The older you get, the faster time passes in your mind, so use your time according to what is most important.

~ A.j. Darkholme

What's the use in prolonging life if you don't do anything with it?

~ A.j. Darkholme

Take a stand; go for the right choice. Don't just sit for anything; stand for something. Be specific because sometimes, when the meaning is not clear, there us absolutely no meaning!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The purpose of life is to live. The meaning of life is whatever you choose. The secret to life is balance in all things…

~ James A. Murphy

Our choices in life are made according to our sense of our own worth.

~ Kaylan Pickford

I choose to live by choice, not by chance; to make changes, not excuses; to be motivated, not manipulated; to be useful, not used; to excel, not to compete. I choose self-esteem, not self-pity. I choose to listen to my inner voice, not the random opinion of others. I choose to be me.

~ Miranda Marrott

I knew with certainty now—I could say no, and he would stop. Above all, I felt the fierce beauty of the choice. I knew now what it was that had held me from falling into my desire to be with him fully: I first needed to make sure he was a man who would respect my 'No.

~ Aspen Matis

We have a choice. We can spend our whole life suffering because we can't relax with how things really are, or we can relax and embrace the open-endedness of the human situation, which is fresh, unfixated, unbiased.

~ Pema Chödrön

People with Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS) have the unfortunate choice of suffering Radio Frequency (RF) sickness without electromagnetically screening their homes or to get natural radiation deficiency sickness with the RF protective screening installed, the choice is which sickness is the most tolerable. It is a really bad situation to be in.

~ Steven Magee

Look those tough and hard decisions in the face and make them, keep making them until you are confident in what you see.

~ Bidemi Mark-Mordi

You have 100% control over yourself, and your life. It is up to you to stop giving your power away, and to decide what you want to be, do, or have...and go after it.

~ B. Dave Walters

Be deliberate in your choices. We are created to do what we are called to do and what we are born to experience, not what we believe other people expect us to do. Your time is precious.

~ Julie Connor

Most of my failures can be ascribed to the fact that I chose that which was ‘easy’ over that which was ‘right’. And while it’s ‘right’ to admit this to myself, it isn’t ‘easy.’ So, which choice am I going to make this time?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Failure only happens when you lose your willpower to continue trying...If we let the obstacles get the best of us then it was our choice to fail, not fate.

~ Lindsey Rietzsch

As long as we confider failure as an option, success is not going to be the only one choice.

~ Ahmed Alibage

You can't please all men, but you must desire to please God and love Him forever more.

~ Bamigboye Olurotimi

I do. I choose you, which is to choose him and the others and t

~ Jameson Fitzpatrick

Nothing won't change, until the choice is placed first. And until when choice is given a chance.

~ Anthony Liccione

Though it doesn’t feel like it, crisis places us front and center of desire, which is the force of power.

~ S. Kelley Harrell

...to be lost is to be fully present, and to be fully present is to be capable of being in uncertainty and mystery. And one does not get lost but loses oneself, with the implication that it is a conscious choice, a chosen surrender...

~ Rebecca Solnit

In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is wanting.

~ John Lubbock

Don't let anyone take your power by influencing what you do.... sure ask for advice when you are still deciding, but once you are sure what you want to go for, don't let anyone deflect you. It is YOUR choice to make and to follow through.

~ Jay Woodman

The road to recovery may be tough, but I've closed all the doorsthat lead to giving upWith only one choice in hand, I am focused on healing

~ Vijaya Gowrisankar

I choose what sort of relationship I want to have with my family of origin today.

~ Maureen Brady

Perhaps they thought they could bring to this valley only those things they loved, leaving behind all ugliness.We are not, however, a species that can choose the baggage with which it must travel. In spite of our best intentions, we always find that we have brought along a suitcase or two of darkness, and misery.

~ Dean Koontz

You must always focus on and pursue the good, but when that darkness surges up from within, you need to know how to handle it, use it, and release it wisely, not just deny its presence or acceptability as you suppress it within you.

~ A.j. Darkholme

As to having a preference, that was new too. You take what you're given and you're grateful for it. Once that message is well and truly ingrained in you, it feels like vainglory to imagine one's own likes and dislikes could matter to other people.

~ Laini Taylor

When you have no choice, you have no discontent either.

~ Vivek Shanbhag

Always remember that when a new moment, a new insight, hovers around you, choose the new because the old has not done anything for you, so what is the point of going back? Even if the new proves wrong, then too, choose the new. At least it will be a new adventure; you will come to know something.

~ Osho

Some people resist the idea of a choice of any sort. They don’t want to be called “narrow.” But Jesus taught that there are two roads, and you have to choose which road you will take.

~ Billy Graham