Choices Quotes

They say faith is taking the first step when you can’t see the whole staircase. Actually, wisdom is seeing the elevator behind it that would have taken you to the top floor.

~ Shannon L. Alder

But circumstances change. Small causes lead to large effects. New paths are added. And all anyone can do . . . is choose.

~ Kelseyleigh Reber

You are here to live your purpose not to please others. If they truly respect you they will respect your choices too.

~ Latika Teotia

We, at times, criticize ourselves for making immature choices. But if you think with real compassion you will find that those were the right choices at that point of time. Everything happens for a reason, maybe, that was destined. Anyway the best would be to accept whatever happened and move on.

~ Latika Teotia

Sorry” we all say “Sorry” for the wrong things we say and do. But do we always think about the people we love dearly who we say hurtful things to? I don’t think so because if we had think about it sorry wouldn't have become such a popular word today. Sometimes we say so much and act immature as adult. We didn't take the time to realize how much hurt and pain we put that individual in we never took the time to think of the reaction, the feelings and the consequence that we might have to face if what we do turns out to be a matter of life and death.!!!

~ Napz Cherub Pellazo

Some choices will either make you perish or prosper, choose properly.

~ Gift Gugu Mona

Questions that begin ‘If I had/if I had not’ have no true answers. You can never know how your actions may have impacted Master Jason’s fate. And if you could know, that knowledge would not change the past. The only good that can come of these musings is that which you have already found: in taking the lessons of the past, such as they may be, to guide your choices in the present.

~ Chris Dee

Every choice starts with a decision. Every decision starts with a thought. Every thought starts with a pre-conceived idea. It is up to you to decide what you do with each but always remember that the choice you make will result in the consequence you face.

~ Kemi Sogunle

Do not discern it differently -- pursue it differently.

~ Andy Harglesis

She chose the attractive room, not noticing the cloven hoof exposed beneath the ornate curtains. That decision has surely haunted her every day since, finally catching up to her.

~ K. Martin Beckner

Love is more than desire. It’s more than passion and moonlight and poetry. Love is a choice you make; it’s things you do. Love is holding hands when your wife’s morning sickness is so bad she wants to die. It’s forgiving when you’re mad, and listening to her when you want to talk. It’s rubbing her feet when she’s tired and you want a whole lot more. It’s seeing each other at your worst and choosing to overlook what you know is true because you believe they can be better. It’s doing the right thing for the other person. Even when it’s hard. Especially when it’s hard. That is love, Jaime.

~ Brandon Gray

The story of your past doesn’t have to become the story of your life.

~ Luminita D. Saviuc

Effective life management isn’t about finding more time to fill; it’s about recognizing you don’t have to do anything you do not choose to do. Hiding a choice behind a “have to” is irresponsible. Everything filling the white space in your life is there because you chose to put it there. We always have the power to say, “No.” We just need to be ready to live with the consequences.

~ Joe Jordan

For every choice you make, there is a consequence to face. Choose wisely!

~ Kemi Sogunle

Have no regrets in life because of the choices you make. Good or bad, they are a learning experience, to help you grow. The only regret in life, is to never make a choice at all.

~ James Hauenstein

...in life, a man only comes to a few crossroads that can shape his future for good or bad. Sometimes one recognized these crossroads, and could stop and think about the right decision. But other times, the choice could only be seen with the clarity that came afterward.

~ Morgan Rhodes

A choice made having devastating consequences for another is really not a choice. It is an act.

~ Beem Weeks

We only have one life and two choices: sadness and regret for a past we cannot change or happiness for every moment we can choose how to live.

~ Marino Baccarini

Every time we choose our past over our present we kill our future.

~ Temitope Ibrahim

He shrugs. Doesn't help to waste my time thinking about would've-beens.Laila whispers, He says to the girl with a mind full of them.

~ Kasie West

In such seconds of decision entire futures are made.

~ Dan Simmons

I am now 33 years old, and it feels like much time has passed and is passing faster and faster every day. Day to day I have to make all sorts of choices about what is good and important and fun, and then I have to live with the forfeiture of all the other options those choices foreclose. And I'm starting to see how as time gains momentum my choices will narrow and their foreclosures multiply exponentially until I arrive at some point on some branch of all life's sumptuous branching complexity at which I am finally locked in and stuck on one path and time speeds me through stages of stasis and atrophy and decay until I go down for the third time, all struggle for naught, drowned by time. It is dreadful. But since it's my own choices that'll lock me in, it seems unavoidable--if I want to be any kind of grownup, I have to make choices and regret foreclosures and try to live with them.

~ David Foster Wallace

Time is like the Mississippi River. It only flows in one direction. You can never go back.

~ Suzanne Woods Fisher

But time has a way of stealthily deciding a person’s mind without her conscious knowledge, and as she studied and procrastinated, Poison found one day that she had come to know her choice.

~ Chris Wooding

I offered you a choice, and you took it.I shot him what I hoped was a truly scathing glare. Some choice. I was dying. Some drunk shot me from a pickup. Why wouldn't I have just woken up with gonorrhea like every other girl of loose moral fiber?

~ Molly Harper

Even the juncture in history and the zeitgeist we live in is something we choose, setting the scene for the spiritual fodder we need to grow and achieve deeper elevation of our souls.

~ Raquel Cepeda

The duality and the freewill don't exist. There's only one choice to be made, the one that bring us upwards. Self-destruction is not a choice. And yet, every duality presents exactly that, and not really a choice.

~ Robin Sacredfire

Our desires, dreams and hopes, open portals. These portals manifest in our conscience and five senses, in the form of decisions related to the material world but also opportunities. Now, at the exact same time, or maybe even slightly before in time, we get the exact opposite, the temptation, the illusion and deception. And when we are about to make a decision, as if by magic, the two things come stronger to us, as if pushing us into a duality that makes it hard to decide. Now, this brings me to another super interesting fact: Most people assume that they have freewill, and that choices are hard to be made, and that life is full of dualities. And I've learned that this is just a great deception related to our planet, which, as human beings, we must transcend. And what I'm really saying here is that the duality and the freewill don't exist. There's only one choice to be made, the one that bring us upwards. Self-destruction is not a choice. And yet, every duality presents exactly that, and not really a choice.

~ Robin Sacredfire

Sometimes good choices are really bad ones, wrapped up in so much fear you can't even see straight.

~ Deb Caletti

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

~ Shannon L. Alder

You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.

~ Sammy Davis Jr.

Living a life somewhere else in your mind is nothing more than being a prisoner where you are.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Remember that the choices you make, and the reasons you make them, shape your destiny. Remember your free will...And remember, what the True One has made is supposed to bring balance and unity, not anger, fear or revenge. Do not fear, what is yours to use. Only beware the ends to which it is turned, and know the means will truly determine the outcome.

~ Derek Donais

Sadly, it seems that I have the proclivity to create plenty of devils, but most of the time I don’t even go looking for angels.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Running’ is driven by panic. ‘Destination’ is driven by thought. And while it’s terribly painful to admit, incessantly pretending that I do the latter doesn’t replace the fact that I’m constantly doing the former.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

For it is a choice, I think, to close the heart, just as it is a choice to open it. It is a choice to look at what distresses you, and a choice to shut your eyes. It is a choice to hold tight your pain, or else let it slip your grasp, set it free to make its mark upon the world.

~ Beth Underdown

The only thing she could do now was to shed a few tears, feeling rather afraid of herself, an intelligent young woman, who had everything going for her, but who tended to make the wrong decisions. She just hoped that this time she was right.

~ Paulo Coelho

What excites us the most or likewise scares us the most is when something is exactly what it says it is. And when it comes to Christmas, we’re going to end up finding ourselves on one side of that line or the other.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

What he had hoped for was his ruin and what he had feared his salvation.

~ Michael Ende

Never pray to be a better slave when God is trying to get you out of your situation.

~ Shannon L. Alder