Choices Quotes

Say no to everything, so you can say yes to the one thing.

~ Richie Norton

Make a decision and then make it right. There just are no wrong decisions.

~ Abraham Hicks

None of us gets to choose how we're born, it's what we make of ourselves afterwards.

~ Kenneth Oppel

God will help you make the choices that guide you into His path for each stage and age of your life.

~ Elizabeth George

I guess that's the lesson in all of this-not to be eighty years old, looking back on your life, wondering if you made the right choice or how your life might have been different if you'd done one thing and not another.

~ Mary Simses

When you marry a woman out of pity, then its a pity that you'll send her away very soon.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

The choices that women make sometimes seems provoking and at the same time amusing. I once met a lady who said she liked my amusing facial expression.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

For good-intentioned people making decisions, there's no such thing as a bad choice. So it doesn't matter what you choose. Choose something, then deliberately line up with the choice you make. This is the art of alignment and allowing. (paraphrased)

~ Abraham Hicks

The truth is there are always three choices: the right one, the wrong one and the one that is called No Choice. As you may guessed, the No Choice one is a rule of a bad interpreter.

~ Galina Nelson

My dad told me that God allows people to make their own choices and doesn’t override their free will. That is why bad things happen. People don’t do the things they should.

~ J.w. Lord

I say this because all religions, accurately understood, will take away your fear of not being enough. I believe there is a way to understand the tenets of your religion, right now, that will take away your fear and make you feel loved and safe. The problem is that no matter what you believe or to which religion you belong, there are two ways you can experience your beliefs. There is a fear way you can experience your religion, and a love way to experience it. All religions can be experienced both ways. All life philosophies can be experienced both ways too.If you search your personal books of scripture, you will find both ideas equally represented. There will be verses or sections that validate a fear-based view of God and there will be some that validate a love-based view of God. Don’t be confused by this. Both ideas had to be represented for you to have free agency. Anything less than equal representation of each idea would take away your freedom to choose.

~ Kimberly Giles

It is impossible to erase my choices.

~ Veronica Roth

Now the choices you make are not about finding your path. Rather, they are choices to open the path you have found.

~ Ilchi Lee

Intelligence is not expecting people to understand what your intent is, it is anticipating how it will be perceived.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Students will read if we give them the books, the time, and the enthusiastic encouragement to do so. If we make them wait for the one unit a year in which they are allowed to choose their own books and become readers, they may never read at all. To keep our students reading, we have to let them.

~ Donalyn Miller

I am wearing a gray shirt, blue jeans, black shoes--new clothes, but beneath them, my Dauntless tattoos. It is impossible to erase my choices. Especially these.

~ Veronica Roth

Sometimes love is not enough.

~ Sarah Maclean

She had all day every day to figure out some decent and satisfying way to live, and yet all she ever seemed to get for all her choices and all her freedom was more miserable. The autobiographer is almost forced to the conclusion that she pitied herself for being so free.

~ Jonathan Franzen

We all make choices, Cossack. Who we are in this world, what we do in it. Generous or selfish. Happy or sad. Good or evil. It's all down to choice.

~ Anthony Horowitz

Aren't we all victims of fate?

~ Sarah Maclean

You talked to us about what kind of fifth-graders we wanted to be this year. How it was all in our choices, every minute of our days. How even grownups like you had to think about it sometimes, to be the person they wanted to be.

~ W.h. Beck

Better to choose a limit capriciously than to have none.

~ Thomas Hardy

Like the line of love, I thought. Once crossed you can't go back. Like the line between past and future. Or maybe really the line between past and now. The now my father spoke of. When I raced ... I would cross the line and there was no more thinking about what was going to be because it was. It happened that fast.

~ Adam Berlin Belmondo Style

It was the human's fault that our worlds separated, and because they separated, I had to choose.  I hate choosing.  Why are humans always so insistent on picking one thing or the other?  If one must choose, why not pick the option that allows both?Because our lives are short . . . so we have to make decisions . . . to move forward.  Because sometimes . . . you can't have everything.

~ Addison Lane

Some choices are harder than they appear. You can never say yes to one thing without saying no to another.

~ Chris Coppernoll

Such a simple concept, yet so true. That which we manifest is before us, we are the creators of our own destiny.

~ Garth Stein

Life's too short to play it safe sometimes. (If he feels something special about Emma, he should go for it.)

~ Chris Coppernoll

Dark times call for dark choices. Choose me.

~ Mark Lawrence

Life is made of moments. and choices. Not all of them matter, or have any lasting impact. Skipping class in favor of a taste of freedom, picking a prom dress because of the way it transforms you into a princess in the mirror. Even the nights you steal away from an open window, tiptoe silent to the end of the driveway, where darkened headlights and the pull of something unknown beckon. These are all small choices, really. Insignificant as soon as they’re made. Innocent.But then.Then there’s a different kind of moment. One when things are irrevocably changed by a choice we make. A moment we will play endlessly in our minds on lonely nights and empty days. One we’ll search repeatedly for some indication that what we chose was right, some small sign that tells us the truth isn’t nearly as awful as it feels. Or as awful as anyone would think if they knew.So we explain it to ourselves, justify it enough to sleep. And then we bury it deep, so deep we can almost pretend it never happened. But as much as we wish it were different, the truth is, our worlds are sometimes balanced on choices we make and the secrets we keep.

~ Jessi Kirby

In life we always have some measure of control whether it be over our emotions or choices, but when it comes to cancer? The only thing you can control is how you respond to it

~ Rachel Van Dyken

We reach for the same brand not because we trust its quality but because we want to reassure ourselves that we made a smart choice the last time we bought it.

~ David Mcraney

I love you enough to tell you the truth whether you want to hear it or not, but what you do afterward is your choice alone.

~ Ashley Ormon

If you have to choose between something that has form and something that doesn't, go for the one without form. That's my rule.

~ Haruki Murakami

Commonsense will never come from following your heart, wisdom is only stored in the mind.

~ Shannon L. Alder

You have two choices in life: you can dissolve into the mainstream or you can be distinct. To be distinct, you must be different. To be different, you must strive to be what no one else but you can be.

~ Alan Ashley-Pitt

Life is, if anything, the art of combination. Of discrimination. Of freely picking one's own personal pattern out of a hundred choices. Not letting it be picked for you—either by the Establishment, or by the Rebels. Conformity of Hip is no better than Conformity of Square.

~ Sydney J. Harris

I really wondered why people were always doing what they didn't like doing. It seemed like life was a sort of narrowing tunnel. Right when you were born, the tunnel was huge. You could be anything. Then, like, the absolute second you were born, the tunnel narrowed down to about half the size. . . . I figured that, on the day you died, the tunnel would be so narrow, you'd have squeezed yourself in with so many choices, that you just got squashed.

~ Carol Rifka Brunt

When you’ve tired of me,” she said softly, precisely, “Apollo will still be my brother. Will still be there for me.”“I’ll never tire of you,” he said, knowing with every thread of his soul that he spoke the absolute truth.“Then prove it.”He knew what she asked with such an open and vulnerable face. Something within him shriveled and died... he’d been on the rack too long for a penance he wasn’t sure he could ever entirely pay. “You know…” His voice was hoarse, the croaking of a dying man. He licked his lips. “You know why I cannot.

~ Elizabeth Hoyt

To relate oneself expectantly to the possibility of the good is to hope. To relate oneself expectantly to the possibility of evil is to fear. By the decision to choose hope one decides infinitely more than it seems, because it is an eternal decision

~ Søren Kierkegaard

Our debts don't leave us much in terms of choices. We can choose to pay now or try to pay later. But the longer we wait the steeper the bill

~ Ziad K. Abdelnour