Choice Quotes

You always have a choice to know your life and live with the understanding or simply give up, to the daily pressure of life.

~ Roshan Sharma

Wisdom is unwanted in the colony of fools.

~ Bamigboye Olurotimi

Good is equal to Order While,Evil is equal to FreedomDoes it make sense to you? It does for me.

~ James Eugeñio

Sometimes saying goodbye to the ones you love can be the most appropriate thing to do in order to help them understand there are consequences for each and every choice we make.

~ Raphael Zernoff

If I had done this, if I had said that, in the end you are always more tormented by what you didn't do than what you did, actions already performed can always be rationalized in time, the neglected deed might have changed the world.

~ Damon Galgut

Deus ex machina not only erases all meaning and emotion, it's an insult to the audience. Each of us knows we must choose and act, for better or worse, to determine the meaning of our lives...Deus ex machina is an insult because it is a lie.

~ Robert Mckee

Don't be blurred by impulse, to avoid regrets, refrain from doing things that will make you regret.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

The surgical resident interested in learning trauma will bypass a residency at a quiet community hospital for a residency at a fast-paced Level 1 trauma center treating a high volume of trauma patients. A Level 1 trauma center residency is far more rigorous—and not particularly glamorous—but the intensive culture of a dedicated trauma center will cultivate the decisive judgment and action required of a surgeon specializing in trauma. By choice or by chance, we must actively test our limits to know our capabilities.

~ Marian Deegan

It's our actions that define us. What we choose. What we resist. What we're willing to die for.

~ Karen Marie Moning

Experience is a supreme teacher, but experience is not something that can be taught. It has to be learned through choice and consequence.

~ Toni Sorenson

You can not go back. That's why it's hard to choose. You have to make the right choice. As long, as you don't choose, everything remains possible.

~ Jaco Van Dormael

Every act and choice you make is creating the real you and shaping your real life.

~ Elizabeth George

That is normal...To be afraid. Do not let anyone tell you any different. No one can ever say that what you feel is right or wrong, or pointless or unworthy of your time. That is a truth for you to decide. Ignorance is bliss, but there comes a time when you must open your eyes and face the truth—when you must be honest with yourself.

~ Kelseyleigh Reber

Once you start settling, and letting others control your life, it can quickly become a habit, so it’s best to avoid such things altogether.

~ A.j. Darkholme

Thanks to arranged marriages: There are countless women who have never been their husband's girlfriend.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

There are some mornings when I cry and cry and mourn for myself. Some mornings, I'm so angry and bitter. But it doesn't last too long. Then I get up and say, 'I want to live..' 'So far, I've been able to do it. Will I be able to continue? I don't know. But I'm betting on myself I will.' Koppel seemed extremely taken with Morrie. He asked about the humility that death induced.

~ Mitch Albom

You can get angry, you can get even, or you can get ahead.

~ Jeffrey Fry

Look to your heart and soul first, rather than looking to your head first, when choosing. Rather than what you think, consider instead how you feel. Look to the nature of things. Feel your choices and decisions. It just might change everything.

~ Jeffrey R. Anderson

Love isn't a choice. I can't control how I feel about him any more than I can control the sun in the sky. But what I can do is control what I do with those feelings.

~ Karina Halle

Feelings are much like waves. We can't stop them from coming but we can choose which one to surf.

~ Jonatan Mårtensson

Man has a choice and it's a choice that makes him a man.

~ John Steinbeck

Man has no automatic code of survival. His particular distinction from all other living species is the necessity to act in the face of alternatives by means of volitional choice. He has no automatic knowledge of what is good for him or evil, what values his life depends on, what course of action it requires. Are you prattling about an instinct of self-preservation? An instinct of self-preservation is precisely what man does not possess. An 'instinct' in as unerring and automatic form of knowledge. A desire is not an instinct. A desire to live does not give you the knowledge required for living. And even man's desire to live is not automatic: your secret evil today is that that is the desire you do not hold. Your fear of death is not a love of life and will not give you the knowledge needed to keep it. Man must obtain his knowledge and choose his actions by a process of thinking, which nature will not force him to perform. Man has the power to act as his own destroyer--and that is the way he has acted through most of history.

~ Ayn Rand

He who mocked and laughed at correction should blame nobody for his shame and doom.

~ Bamigboye Olurotimi

The choice of a man defines is paths.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It's matter of choice and matter of thinking.

~ Deyth Banger

A change of scene will not produce a change of thought in the master mind unless he so elects.

~ Christian D. Larson

Life can be frustrating sometimes. Take a nap, exercise, meditate or do whatever it takes to 'reboot' your thinking. Happiness is just a thought away!

~ Tom Giaquinto

I'm not a robot. I'm a freak of the universe ... a thinking animal ... and I'm trying to see my way clear through this morass.

~ Alfred Bester

Love is kind, Love endures, Love is the machine fueled by hate, We love our race; we kill in the name of it, We destroy lives, and we raise our flag high, so others can see what we can do,We proclaim our race, and our creed, We love our God, and we kill in his name, Hallowed be the name of love, We love our woman and the choice to murder life,We Love; and the fruits of Love are here for us to see,Love came to show us hell,Love came to give us choice, Love’s the machine, and its fuel is hateBlessed be the name of love, the force behind our pride, Love, the flag displayed up high, to show others love is on our side,Love gave us Choice, murder of fetuses,Love your race,hang them if not like you, slaved them, torture them, Murder in the name of Love!“Love and do what you will” (St. Augustine)

~ Quetzal

A coward's gun is emptied when fear pulls the trigger, and hate is the ammunition of choice.

~ T.f. Hodge

It’s gotten far easier to allow ourselves to hate than it is to choose to love.

~ Sam Killermann

They say that people fall in and out of love, but do they, too, fall in hate? Or fall into indifference? It has hindered men for ages the notion that one falls in love rather than decides to truly love, the notion that his lack of control, on the B-side, can also make him fall in hate or indifference without the responsibility to help it or control it.

~ Criss Jami

We become our decisions over time. We choose to love, or we can choose to hate. We can choose to forgive, or we can choose to take revenge; to have hope, or we can choose to fall into despair. But, regardless, we become our choices we make over time. p. 318

~ David Leroy

So maybe the difference isn't language. Maybe it's this: animals do neither good nor evil. They do as they must do. We may call what they do harmful or useful, but good and evil belong to us, who chose to choose what we do. The dragons are dangerous, yes. They can do harm, yes. But they're not evil. They're beneath our morality, if you will, like any animal. Or beyond it. They have nothing to do with it. We must choose and choose again. The animals need only be and do. We're yoked, and they're free. So to be with an animal is to know a little freedom...

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

The choices we make about the lives we live determine the kinds of legacies we leave.

~ Tavis Smiley

I wrote Unwind for lots of reasons, and it poses questions about alot of subjects. To state it briefly, I wanted to point out how when peopletake intractable positions on an issue, and stick to extreme sides,sometimes the result is a compromise that is worse than either extreme. Imeant it as a wake up call to society -- and to point out that sometimes theproblem IS that we take sides on an issue, when a different sort of approachis needed. It's also to pose questions about what it means to be alive.Where does life begin, where does it end -- and point out that there is nosingle answer to these questions. The problem is people who think there aresimple answers. People who see things as simple black-and-whiteright-and-wrong are the type of people who will end up with a world like theworld in Unwind.

~ Neal Shusterman

I want to make the choice that gives an accurate impression of who I am; and who I am is someone who wants to be ethical, evolved, yet not at all an oil pan for the machinations of the morally corrupt.

~ Kelli Jae Baeli

Everyone has a given a chance to live life to the fullest, every moment and memories you make is your choice.

~ Chaz B

For animals, the confinement of the body is the confinement of the whole being, but a person can choose freedom even when he has no physical autonomy. In order to do so, he must know what choice is, and he must believe that he deserves it. By sharing stories, we keep choice alive in the imagination and in language. We give each other the strength to perform choice in the mind even when we cannot perform it with the body.

~ Sheena Iyengar

One could even argue that we have a duty to create and pass on stories about choice because once a person knows such stories, they can’t be taken away from him. He may lose his possessions, his home, his loved ones, but if he holds on to a story about choice, he retains the ability to practice choice.

~ Sheena Iyengar