Choices Quotes

Real choices – the ones that changed you and shaped you – were never made with the head, but on the beat of a heart that saw a future it couldn't live without.

~ Dianna Hardy

Most people have to get to a point where they don't have a choice before they'll change something.

~ Alex Marwood

Courage can't exist without action. Anything else is a lion without his roar.

~ Shannon L. Alder

In order to be authentic, you have to make decisions based on what you want, rather than how it will be perceived.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Your future depends of the choices you make today. The future for this reason can be predicted by your day to day living.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

If you can’t dream big, you will never see the vivid colors of probability over the darkness of possibility.

~ Shannon L. Alder

In too many instances we have settled for a world of our own shaping that is shaping up to be in terrible shape.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

L I V E or E V I L -- to Live life is to spell forward. To not live life is to spell backwards.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Never mistake the uncomfortable feeling of insecurity and the fear of the unknown with the Holy Ghost’s promptings. Sometimes those feelings are simply Satan keeping you stuck where you are because he knows you will have a half-life there. He knows that you will spend half of your life disconnected, discontented and convincing your mind of what its heart will never accept. He knows when you have settled, gave up and didn’t try. Inaction is his greatest weapon, while regret is his second.

~ Shannon L. Alder

I no longer follow the voices of the sane. I follow the ill because they see farther, feel much more and change what the sane will not. This is the paradox of philosophers---trying to understand mass delusion among great people that have faith and knowledge, yet they can’t graduate from their institutions of religious theology to apply the knowledge they have gained for the shifting of Zion---- from words to action; from comfort to uncomfortable; from self serving to self giving; from competition to supporting; to tradition to unity; from bias to acceptance; from me to us.

~ Shannon L. Alder

If you can only do one thing today, choose to help someone in need. There are many who are less fortunate. Take some time to lend a helping hand. You will be surprised by how much you will uplift their spirit.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

The way we are living,timorous or bold,will have been our life.

~ Seamus Heaney

We make choices and are in turn made by them.

~ Sheena Iyengar

The person who says it can’t be done is almost always interrupted by the person who is doing it.

~ Shannon L. Alder

I like having options, alternate lives unlived but always possible.

~ Abigail Padgett

People exercise the freedom to present themselves from a vast array of precepts. The modern human mind can engage in reflective thought and selectively determine how to organize the elements of perception. We can consciously elect to depart from stereotypical behavior and transcend the heretofore-established biological behavioral preferences. People can elect to hold prejudices or not, can make rational or irrational decisions to engage in war or not, and can take deliberate steps to arrest destruction of the ecosystem or not. Holding ourselves in check by placing a brake upon the human propensity to strike out in instinctual behavior is a distinct human quality. Restraint from instant gratification of strong impulses represents a unique human behavior trait. By intentionally refraining from committing an instinctual action, humankind asserts its sovereignty from its biological constitution. Unbound from the limitations of its biological nature, a person can employ the mind to devise alternative behavioral choices and the results of numerous behavioral choices culminate to provide a person with a sophisticated definition of the self.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

My worth changes with every choice I make and every action I take. I can choose myself to uselessness or to being valuable.

~ Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

It has always been simple, but making it hard was always your way of avoiding pain. If you want to change your life, you have to change what you are doing. It wasn't his fault, her fault, their fault or the circumstances. It was your inability to choose. So, life chose for you. Somewhere in that crazy mind of yours time stopped. You thought someone would rescue you, but they didn't. You have to rescue yourself. This is not a fire you can put out; you have to walk through it, in order to reach life. Getting burned is apart of growth, didn't you know?

~ Shannon L. Alder

No matter where you go, there’s always something to deal with; if it’s not greed, it’s lust, or envy, or pride, or something else. You just have to live your life so uncorrupted that it offsets the corruption as much as possible.

~ A.j. Darkholme

Without purpose and meaning in our lives, we banish ourselves to wander this plane of existence with self-destructive tendencies until the bell tolls and our breath capsizes in our lungs, snatching our chance to redeem ourselves forever.

~ A.j. Darkholme

In life, you have two choices: Do you control your life… or not? Are you the driver or the passenger? Do you make stuff happen, or let stuff to happen?

~ Justin Young

Henry was right—I let everyone else's feelings affect my decisions. Screw that. I'm taking the ball and running with it. Maybe they're not my top choices, but they're choices that are good for me, choices I can live with. Some things I can't control; but some things I can. And I'm going to.

~ Miranda Kenneally

The fine thing about pacts with the devil is that when you sign them you are well aware of their conditions. Otherwise, why would you be recompensed with hell?

~ Umberto Eco

Every brush stroke on the canvas, every dab of color introduced, the fine textures impressed in the paint—this accumulation of many small acts combines to shape a final work of art.  And so it is with life; each step, each deed, each brief choice builds gradually, day by day, to shape both character and destiny.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Believe it or not, the notions of free will and destiny are not mutually exclusive.Predestination is the universal framework of limits (based on natural physical laws) placed upon us.Free will is our infinite ability to make choices within that framework.Because the universal scale is so great—and most of it constitutes an undiscovered frontier—our choices are only limited by our knowledge, our abilities, and our imagination.To put it simply, the world is such a huge playground sandbox that we will never run out of sand or reach the faraway safety fence of destiny.So go out there and play!

~ Vera Nazarian

You don't begin with a destiny. It is the sum total of your choices. The first and the last are especially important.

~ Brent M. Jones

Destiny deals you your hand and what you do with the cards is up to you.

~ Kenneth Eade

You always have a choice. Destiny deals you your hand and what you do with the cards is up to you

~ Kenneth Eade

The universe holds a destiny in store for people who will not build their own, but they seldom like it.

~ Lance Conrad

It is ultimately your choices that decide your destiny.

~ Theodore Volgoff

Your destiny is the result of the choices that you make, which paths you take in life.

~ Steven Redhead

Let each person decide his or her fate.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Men who’ve made choices always feel they own their destiny. Few ever think to ask who shaped and offered up those choices. Who dangles the carrot they think they’ve chosen to follow.

~ Mark Lawrence

If you don’t’ know what you want, others will give you what they want.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Choose your sacred-journey.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You can make a difference, wherever you are. It begins with a decision and defined purpose.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The number of ways you can live in one lifetime is limitless. So why limit yourself?

~ Suzy Kassem

I may not be free, but I’m not about to surrender the illusion of choice.

~ Johnny Rich

You will get what you wish to have.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I believe in the ability to choose. I believe this life is made up of our choices and their consequences— the good and the bad. I do not believe in letting anything up to fate. We are the makers of our own destinies, our own futures, our own paths. To blindly follow is an insult to the miracle of being human. To be human is to make choices; the moment you allow others to make decisions for you is the moment you do an injustice to not only mankind but to yourself.

~ Kelseyleigh Reber