Choices Quotes

Despite our human intelligence, we are very much like our friends in the wild; the world we live in is a survival of the fittest. But to this I say, let the fittest survive! Survival is overrated. We’re alive; we die. How long we survive for is of little significance. Our true significance lies not in the endless comparing of ourselves to one another, trying to see who is the fittest, using scales of evaluation and meaning that differ in the heart and mind of every individual; no - it lies in our deeds alone with the time we have.

~ A.j. Darkholme

No two persons can learn something and experience it in the same way.

~ Shannon L. Alder

God is up to something, but you will never know unless you figure out the difference between who is the messenger carrying your future and who is the person holding you back.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Don't underestimate the power of a mind that is made up.

~ Miya Yamanouchi

It does not take a great supernatural heroine or magical hero to save the world.We all save it every day, and we all destroy it -- in our own small ways -- by every choice we make and every tiniest action resulting from that c

~ Vera Nazarian

You made me laugh at your jokes.You made me cry at your criticism.You made me shout at your lies.Then I noticed how in every case someone else was present, hearing you without laughter or tears or anger.I alone reacted.I see now; you never made me laugh or cry or rage.I chose to find humor.I chose to take offense.I chose to feel scorned.The truth is, you never had power over me.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Powerlessness implies inactivity, like an appliance that is not plugged into its electrical current. Empowerment is about plugging into responsible choices and then acting upon them to your fullest capacity.

~ David Kipper

Now and again. Good residency is about having the power to ask someone to do something, but not necessarily exercising it.

~ Jasper Fforde

Your power to choose can never be taken from you. It can be neglected and it can be ignored. But if used, it can make all the difference.

~ Steve Goodier

Truth begets knowledge and knowledge begets power.

~ Slade Combs

Like tiny gods, all that we say and do holds a power so great that any one of us in any given moment can be responsible for the birth of a new civilization or the collapse of our own.

~ A.j. Darkholme

No army is comprised of all the same kinds of units or types of troops. There is power in diversity. If you always see only one choice, or use only one option, you will surely lose more than you win.

~ A.j. Darkholme

Why spend your life working on defense when no defense can be made truly impenetrable? Take the offensive – learn the vulnerabilities of the world around you and be the change you wish to see rather than living in constant fear of what may happen to you instead.

~ A.j. Darkholme

When you give people a choice, they believe they have power.

~ A.j. Darkholme

Gaining satisfaction through accomplishments is and will always be a slippery slope, because there will come a time when you realize you have accomplished all that is within your power to accomplish in the realm of good, and will have nowhere else to turn but to the realms of greed and powerlust to find the satisfaction you crave.

~ A.j. Darkholme

And hell, sometimes the best thing is to put on a black dress and become a wicked stepmother. There’s power in that, if you’re after power.

~ Catherynne M. Valente

You'll never understand how powerful your choices have been or are until the day you ask yourself why you made them.

~ Mduduzi Risimati Mbiza

What is a human but a choice maker? Choices are powerful. Choices change history. Choices change the world. Remember your power!

~ Bryant Mcgill

You are powerful, if you choose to be.

~ Bryant Mcgill

How will people remember you when you are gone? And for how long until they forget? Were you selfish or selfless? A gossip or a patient listener? Did you add value to the world, or did you simply take from it? Did you add value to the lives of others, or did you take the value out of someone's life? Were you a plus or negative? Meaningful or meaningless? Do you live to take or live to give?

~ Suzy Kassem

The world you acquire and partake in is purely driven by the choices taken.

~ Steven Redhead

An option means decision, and a decision means acknowledging something is wrong and the shame one can no longer hide from.

~ Na'ama Yehuda

Sometimes you’re left with only 1 choice: Take what’s yours and run for you life.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life for something bigger than yourself, or for someone else. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved, for the sake of something greater.But sometimes it doesn't.Sometimes it is nothing more than gritting your teeth through pain, and the work of every day, the slow walk toward a better life. That is the sort of bravery I must have now.

~ Veronica Roth

One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Courage doesn’t happen when you have all the answers. It happens when you are ready to face the questions you have been avoiding your whole life.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Pamela realizes for the first time in her life that she hadn't made the wrong choice at all. Nor had she made the right choice. She had simply made a choice. And somewhere along the way, she had lost the courage to live by it.

~ Pip Karmel

So she became a woman who held her head high, not in arrogance, or contempt, but because she knew that it was a form of cowardice to make a choice and then pretend you didn’t really make it

~ Kamila Shamsie

One day we will all stand alone and answer to God for the choices we have made in our lives. It will not be enough to say we did not get help because no one would come with us. Life is not easy, but we make it much more difficult when we refuse to be honest about what we feel. For the short term, not being honest may seem easier, but in the long haul, we pay a heavy price.

~ Sheila Walsh

You can't live in your mind and expect those dreams to become real, without the work. Reality requires actions that might feel scary, but that is what is required if you want to find true love. Don't expect it to come and rescue you. You have to rescue yourself.

~ Shannon L. Alder

You have the courage to take chances.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Don't fear to take a daring action. It is truest act to your destiny.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Freedom is the courage to resist anything, which obstructs your dream.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Every action today will define the future.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Be strong. There is hope in any situation.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Family and friends become oppressors the moment they teach you that loyalty is more important than what is done to people outside your social circle. What they are really saying is this: Save yourself because God is more interested in an intact family or social circle that looks righteous, rather than you being a person of integrity that has compassion for others. It is this absurdity that teaches the wrong version of God and creates the next generation of me centered individuals.

~ Shannon L. Alder

If you want to be happy you have to study people who are happy. You have to hang out with people that are happy. Life won't go in the direction you want, by simply trying to stay positive in a life you're not happy with. You have to know what you want and why you truly want it so badly. When you figure that out then you need to change your current identity, in order to fit the type of person you envision would make those dreams come true. Happiness is not reliant on the actions or inactions of other people. It is your “courage in motion” toward your dreams.

~ Shannon L. Alder

The people that truly love us in life don't fight for us to remain a doormat for others.

~ Shannon L. Alder

We've made our decisions, We've taken our choices, What's left, is only a hand-full of emotions.

~ Auliq Ice

You have two choices in life when it comes to truthful observations by others that anger you: You can be ashamed and cover it up by letting your pride take you in the extreme opposite direction, in order to make the point that they are wrong. Or, you can break down the walls of pride by accepting vulnerability as a strength, not a weakness. As you walk through your vulnerability, you will meet humility on the way to courage. From here, courage allows us to let go of shame and rise higher into the person we are meant to be, not the person that needs to be right. This is the road to confidence and self worth.

~ Shannon L. Alder