Choice Quotes

As a rule, Americans are big on that word “choice” and some souls can be captured simply by dangling before the creature a continual, lifelong supply of things from which to choose.

~ Geoffrey Wood

Finally, slowly, drippingly, degrade the term Choice down to its most meager means: The red car not the black one. The 9:25 showing, not the 7:15. Ritz not Wheat Thins.

~ Geoffrey Wood

Our business is to be free of anything that separates us from God, who has created us to simply be happy and to progress.

~ Toni Sorenson

After twenty years of unbelief, doubt had become a habit. Doubting was easy, routine; it was my natural, instinctive reaction. Somewhere along the line I had stopped considering any other options. Doubt was my default. So choosing the blessing, the miracle, over coincidence had to be a conscious choice. I had to dismiss doubt as the crutch that it was, dismiss my gut instinct and embrace the more challenging alternative.

~ Michelle Derusha

I chose and my world was shaken, so what? The choice may have been mistaken, the choosing was not.

~ Stephen Sondheim

Few indeed are those who get a choice. We do as we are told. We stand or fall beside those who were born near to us, who look as we do, who speak the same words, and all the while we know as little of the reasons why as does the dust we return to.

~ Joe Abercrombie

Life is made up of a few moments all strung together like pearls. Each moment is a pearl, and it is up to us to pick the ones with the highest luster. If we do not have time to do great things, take a few gentle moments and do small things in a great way.

~ Joyce Hilfer

You know, kid, ethics isn't about choosing between right and wrong; it's about choosing between grey and grey. It's about choosing between two equally desirable but mutually exclusive courses of action. Freedom or security? Courage or comfort? Self-examination or blissful happiness? Column A or Column B?

~ Will Ferguson

Choosing one thing usually doesn't mean killing all of the other options forever. Oftentimes, you can always go back and change your mind if you want. If not, and you realize the decision did not pan out the way you had hoped, you now have a lesson for future decisions.

~ Chris Hardwick

By choice or by chance, we must actively test our limits to know our capabilities.

~ Marian Deegan

The worst choice you can make, is no choice at all.

~ Suzie Barnes-Eilhauer

If I die on my way to the dance, it will be better than to survive having never lifted my feet.

~ Agnostic Zetetic

Some say that our lives are defined by the sum of our choices. But it isn't really our choices that distinguish who we are. It's our commitment to them.

~ Emily Thorne

We have within us the power to choose how we respond to a hurtful situation. We cannot control the actions of others, but we can control how we will respond. As we understand our power to choose, we see that we are in control. Our life is not a result of our environment or upbringing, but a result of our choices. We have the ability to determine the kind of life we want to live and the type of person we wish to be.

~ Cameron C. Taylor

Happiness is a choice. Happiness does not depend on outward conditions but on inward decisions.

~ Cameron C. Taylor

Choice, I've always believed, is all that separates us from animals.

~ Dennis Lehane

Life is really simple. There are no complicated rules we must follow. There are no external forces, which dictate how we must lead our lives. There is no fate that prevents us from being who we want to be.We are the ones who often insist that life is complicated. Life is complex with its multidimensional nature. It is never complicated. All complications come from our fears, which we often choose to trust more than the voice of our hearts.

~ Raphael Zernoff

When everything is available, nothing is ever enough.

~ Emma Woolf

I don't want to be told that it's the people with power over us who are guilty, that we're innocent slaves, that we're not guilty because we're not free. I am free! I'm building a Vernichtungslager; I have to answer to the people who'll be gassed here. I can say No. There's nothing can stop me—as long as I can find the strength to face my destruction.

~ Vasily Grossman

Each time we make a choice we are either moving toward freedom and prosperity or bondage and misery.

~ Cameron C. Taylor

When you've only got two choices, and you don't like either of them, make a third choice.

~ Andy Lane

I had a dream about you, I’ve had multiple dreams about you. If I had to choose between the real you and the dream you then…Goodnight.

~ Rodney Jenkins

We equate choice with freedom, but they are not the same.

~ Wayne Muller

Your responsibility as an adult is accept your childhood and make your own choice of life.

~ Kathy Mckeon

You can always choose how you prefer to respond to any external circumstances. Do not define your happiness by what is happening around you. Be happy only because this is what you enjoy doing.

~ Raphael Zernoff

Lilies used to be a movie theatre, before. Students went there a lot; every spring they had a Humphrey Bogart festival, with Lauren Bacall or Katherine Hepburn, women on their own, making up their minds. They wore blouses with buttons down the front that suggested the possibilities of the word 'undone'. These women could not be undone; or not. They seemed to be able to choose.

~ Margaret Atwood

Awakening is a different name for raising one's frequency. It is about becoming more aware of different perspectives, from which you may choose whatever you resonate with.

~ Raphael Zernoff

Find your freedom through questioning everything you hear and see. Be free to choose, from all possible perspectives and opinions, what builds love and harmony.

~ Raphael Zernoff

Freedom has a cost, which is borne by individuals who make bad choices, and by a society that feels obligated to help them.

~ Daniel Kahneman

We don't get to choose what truths God reveals to us -- but we do get to choose what we do with the truths -- whom we share it with and how.

~ Carol Goodman

I would give Alex back control so she could protect herself instead of making the decision for her.

~ Jennifer L. Armentrout

When anything is possible, how do you choose?

~ Karen Marie Moning

When everything becomes tangled, you should make the choice.

~ Roman Simonyan

Most people go through life by the line of least resistance in every circumstance where they can make a choice. They do not recognize that following the lines of least resistance makes all rivers, and some men, crooked!

~ Napoleon Hill

Introduction of rational standards to differentiate between acceptable and unacceptable forms of drug related conduct allows us to hold drug users fully accountable for any harm resulting from irresponsible, stupid or ‘anti-social’ drug use in a manner consistent with current alcohol and tobacco policies, and more importantly, in a manner consistent with our commitment to the principles of liberty, freedom of choice and so on.

~ Daniel Waterman

Anything can be a curse if it ain't a choice. If it's all you know. If you do it because your father did it. And you do it because it's familiar and safe and you're afraid to do something else. Even if all you want to do is anything else.

~ Johnny Shaw

Life is full of choices.Your choice is your true freedom.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Nobody introduces us to inspiration…it glows in our thoughts, it lives in our heart,It is all around us in the form of sunshine, in the clouds. It changes our reality - choice lies with us.

~ Balroop Singh

Hard choices are precious opportunities to become the distinctive people that we are.

~ Emma Albennett

When you streamline your schedule by making deliberate decisions about tasks and activities that are crucially important you and identify your most important priorities, you give yourself permission to make choices that excite and interest you. You also grant yourself permission to exercise your right to say, “No, thank you.

~ Julie Connor