Choice Quotes

Now I must live with the consequences of the choice I made. And I will not call it the wrong choice. That would be foolish and pointless. That choice led me to everything that has happened since, including this very moment, and the choices I make today or tomorrow or next week will lead me to the next and next present moments in my life. It is all a journey, Miss Jewell. I have come to understand that that is what life is all about-a journey and the courage and energy always to take the next step and the next without judgement about what was right and what was wrong.

~ Mary Balogh

A person's looking for a simple truth to live by, there it is. CHOICE. To refuse to passively accept what we've been handed by nature or society, but to choose for ourselves. CHOICE. That's the difference between emptiness and substance, between a life actually lived and a wimpy shadow cast on an office wall.

~ Tom Robbins

I never fell. I don't care what they say. I'm still doing my job, as I see it.

~ Neil Gaiman

Our minds are information vacuums. Either we fill them with thoughts of our choosing or someone else will.

~ Ray A. Davis

For love to flourish there has to be trust. Promises don’t matter as much aspersonal choice.

~ Ann Aguirre

One of the greatest feelings in life is the conviction that you have lived the life you wanted to live-with the rough and the smooth, the good and the bad-but yours, shaped by your own choices, and not someone else's.

~ Michael Ignatieff

I don't want any funny business, and above all I don't want to be dragged into other people's funny business. If it's to be my head on the block, I want to know that it's doing there, and not that it's some stupid things that other people have done.

~ Hans Fallada

That's the thing about freewill: Every decision we make is a choice against something as much as it is for something else.

~ Rebecca Serle

There was a choice to be made, and Lena hadn't made it. The songs never lied. At least, they hadn't yet.

~ Kami Garcia

I was here on earth because I chose to be.

~ John Cheever

With good reason, love's messengers, Eros and Kama, are armed with bows and long-distance arrows. No being, god or mortal, can choose love. Love comes despite ourselves; and then, if we have not already done so, we have the task of becoming our selves so we may welcome love.

~ Diane Wolkstein

If I had a choice, if I had understood earlier that the reason my days were all the same was because I wanted them like that, perhaps...

~ Paulo Coelho

So is that it? Will I have to live the rest of my life like this? Not doing the right thing? Not saying the right words?That's your choice. You can't change the past. Ah, but the future. . .you own the future. The Greenman smiled. So, you tell me. . .what choice do you want to make now?

~ Jonathan Maberry

‎Pick ten strangers and stick them in a room, and ask them which of us they feel sorrier for - you or me - and we all know who they'll choose.

~ Jodi Picoult

There's always, always a choice. My options might really, truly suck, but that doesn't mean there isn't a choice.

~ Jim Butcher

I must choose between despair and Energy──I choose the latter.

~ John Keats

Choice is the keynote of self-determinism. To determine anything, you must have the choice to determine. Choice to determine means that you must have the power of decision. Decision and time have a lot in common. When we have clean, clear decision, we have clean, clear time. And when we have indecision, there is an unclarity about time.

~ L. Ron Hubbard

The more choices we have, the greater the need for focus.

~ Tom Butler-Bowdon

...if there really is some day discovered a formula for all our desires and caprices - that is, an explanation of what they depend upon, by what laws they arise, how they develop, what they are aiming at in one case and in another and so on, that is a real mathematical formula - then, most likely, man will at once cease to feel desire, indeed, he will be certain to. For who would want to choose by rule? Besides, he will at once be transformed from a human being into an organ-stop or something of that sort; for what is a man without desires, without freewill and without choice, if not a stop in an organ?

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

ChoiceI needed it like I needed air.Bit no one could hear me. No one could listen. No words. No sound.No voice.I couldn't even dream myself away.Choices were made.None of them mine.At first I wondered if it was hell.And then I knew it was.

~ Mary E. Pearson

Though our hourglass runs, one day it shall not, but then our eternity hourglass begins with never ending sands, what mantle do you want to set your hourglass of eternal life upon? This in your choice to make, no one but you can make that decision. So think wisely and live honorable, for your actions will choice the destination of your hourglass.

~ Tabitha Robin

You got a choice, dude. We've all got choices. Lots of them. Every single second of the day we're making choices. You've just been making bad ones, is all.

~ Ruth Ozeki

That is what love is. A possibility that becomes a choice. A choice you keep making, over and over. Day after day. Year after year. Time after time.

~ Cameron Dokey

Information overload is a symptom of our desire to not focus on what's important. It is a choice.

~ Brian Solis

Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.

~ Simone Weil

The reality of the Life Review is becoming part of our every day understanding. We know that after death, we have to look at our lives again; and we’re going to agonize over every missed opportunity, over every case in which we failed to act. This knowledge is contributing to our determination to pursue every intuitive image that comes to mind, and keep it firmly in awareness. We’re living life in a more deliberate way. We don’t want to miss a single important event. We don’t want the pain of looking back later and realizing that we blew it, that we failed to make the right decisions.

~ James Redfield

He that drinks his cider alone, let him catch his horse alone.

~ Benjamin Franklin

What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do? What a waste, what a senseless waste! But what of those things which you actually didn't like, not because you were not supposed to like them, not because to dislike them was considered a mark of refinement and education - but because you actually found them distasteful? The very idea annoyed me. How could you know? It involved a problem of choice. I would have to weigh many things carefully before deciding and there would be some things that would cause quite a bit of trouble, simply because I had never formed a personal attitude toward so much. I had accepted the accepted attitudes and it had made life seem simple ...

~ Ralph Ellison

He had his choice, and he liked the worst.

~ John Ciardi

If you choose to crawl, so be it. If you choose to stroll, so be it. If you choose to fly, so be it. WHENEVER YOU MAKE A CONSCIOUS CHOICE, YOU KNOCK! (..Knock, and the door will be opened to you.) ~ UNIVERSE LOVES YOU & SO DO I ❤ #StardustAK ❤

~ Abhishek Kumar

I looked at him and he looked at me. A moment. A choice. My choice. His choice.

~ Samantha Shannon

He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation. He who chooses his plan for himself, employs all his faculties.

~ John Stuart Mill

Given the choice between trivial material brilliantly told versus profound material badly told, an audience will always choose the trivial told brilliantly.

~ Robert Mckee

I was now well prepared to be a career criminal. I had the proper training and a natural feel for the business. I had a respect for the old-liners like Angelo and Don Frederico. I had been a witness to both murder and betrayal and had my appetite whetted for acts of revenge.I just didn't have the stomach for any of it.I didn't want my life to be a lonely and sinister on, where even the closest of friends could overnight turn into an enemy who needed to be eliminated. If I went the way Angelo had paved, I would earn millions, but would never be allowed to taste the happiness and enjoyment such wealth often brings. I would rule over a dark world, a place where treachery and deceit would be at my side and never know the simple pleasures of an ordinary life. p368.

~ Lorenzo Carcaterra

They had been brought up to think that the domestic virtues were self-evident and universal, they had been starved of the knowledge that most attracts the young mind: that the crown of life is the exercise of choice

~ Thornton Wilder

Democracies should be a delirium of choices - more options, not fewer; more avenues to travel, not fewer.

~ B.w. Powe

After he wrote The Paradox of Choice, Schwartz got fervent amens from European governments as well as individual readers for insisting that the management of your focus has become one of decision-laden modernity's major challenges. Many behavioral economists and social psychologists also share his concern about what he calls the consequences of mis-attention.

~ Winifred Gallagher

The richness of the whole world reduced to a choice that was not a choice at all, but a sentence.

~ Rosie Thomas

Don't ever choose the people who don't matter over the ones that do.

~ Cynthia Lord

One's own free unfettered choice, one's own caprice, however wild it may be, one's own fancy worked up at times to frenzy -- is that very most advantageous advantage which we have overlooked, which comes under no classification and against which all systems and theories are continually being shattered to atoms. And how do these wiseacres know that man wants a normal, a virtuous choice? What has made them conceive that man must want a rationally advantageous choice? What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead. And choice, of course, the devil only knows what choice.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky