Choices Quotes

Curious creatures we mortals are-how we do not know what we want, or how to get it if we do.

~ Jude Morgan

There is no easy way out of our circumstances...Sometimes you stick it out even when you want to give up because you know that on the other side is either a better situation or a better you. -Watercrossing (Phantom Island Book 3)

~ Krissi Dallas

There are such moments in life, when, in order for heaven to open, it is necessary for a door to close.

~ José Saramago

You got one choice at the beginning but if you didn't choose right, things got narrow real quick.

~ Ron Rash

The things of your life arrived in their own time, like a train you had to catch. Sometimes this was easy, all you had to do was step onto it, the train was plush and comfortable and full of people smiling at you in a hush, and a conductor who punched your ticket and tousled your head with his big hand, saying, Ain’t you pretty, ain’t you the prettiest girl now, lucky lady taking a big train trip with your daddy, while you sank into the dreamy softness of your seat and sipped ginger ale from a can and watched the world float in magical silence past your window, the tall buildings of the city in the crisp autumn light and then the backs of the houses with laundry flapping and a crossing with gates where a boy was waving from his bicycle, and then the woods and fields and a single cow eating grass............Because sometimes it was one way, easy, and sometimes it was the other, not easy; the things of your life roared down to you and it was all you could do to grab hold and hang on. Your old life ended, and the train took you away to another...

~ Justin Cronin

So many roads. So many detours. So many choices. So many mistakes.

~ Sarah Jessica Parker

What we do,our choices, that's what defines us.

~ Carrie Jones

Misperceiving that there is one correct choice is a common mistake. Coming to understand that there are usually a few good choices--and then there's the one you pick, commit to, and make great--is the best way to make flexible, optimal, good decisions in life.

~ Katie Couric

You’re saying the gods don’t have free will.” “The power to make mistakes,” Penny said. “Only we have that. Mortals.

~ Lev Grossman

Respectfully, sir, the asteroid did not make you leave her. The asteroid is not making anyone do anything. It's just a big piece of rock floating through space. Anything anyone does remains their own decision.

~ Ben H. Winters

There are choices in life which you are aware, even as you make them, cannot be undone; choices after which, once made, things will never be the same.There is that moment when you can still walk away, but if you do, you will never know what might have been.

~ Alan Bradley

We all want to be seen not for the choices we made ten years ago, but for who we are today.

~ Elaina Marie

The truth is that this was something over which I had no control and the question is not why but what. What am I going to do with this? What am I going to make of it?

~ Vicki Forman

You will make better decisions once you begin thinking long-term rather than short-term.

~ Adam Kirk Smith

Horses were never wrong. They always did what they did for a reason, and it was up to you to figure it out.

~ Jeannette Walls

I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to go. If I've encountered some unnecessary resistance that's because most of the traffic is going the other way.

~ Edward Abbey

fruit of passive-aggressive people. These people resist demands by indirect tactics. They will not take responsibility for their own choices; instead, they turn around and blame someone else for making them do it. Or they will agree to do things that they don’t really want to do, and then gripe about the person behind her back.

~ Henry Cloud

But difficult situations and wrong choices conspire to trap us in hopelessness.

~ Judah Smith

Life was a short window and there was no sense in doing the wrong thing over and over even if it was so difficult to stop.

~ Anna Godbersen

What you must remember is that the magic itself is neither good nor bad, no more so than this ship might be used for right or wrong. It might be used by a fisherman to feed a village, for example. Or, the same vessel might be sailed by pirates to murder and pillage...the lumber, rope, nails, cotton, and everything that goes into it-is created by the True One. Humans decide how it is to be put together and how it is used.

~ Derek Donais

Most people, faced with two difficult choices, prefer not to choose at all.

~ Kenneth Eade

The future is never just one choice. It's a thousand. And they never stop. You will choose your future every day of your life. And should you wake up one day to find that you regret the choice you made the day before, then make a new one. Don't worry about whether you might be wrong someday. Worry about whether you're right now. Tomorrow can wait.

~ Cora Carmack

It’s funny how when you say “yes” to something (like the man of your dreams), you don’t think about the fact that you are also saying “no” to something else.

~ Amy E. Spiegel

You already made the choice, you are simply here to walk it.

~ L.j. Vanier

The easiest thing is to say no. What's not so easy is telling yourself to stop.

~ Alix

Life often presents you with difficult choices. But who made up the rules? Why choose at all?

~ Ulysses Brave

Part of making a good decision is just making a decision. You can't always sit and weigh the pros and cons. There just isn't time for that. Making a good decision means sticking with your choice and dealing with what comes with it. Being able to deal with the consequences—that's making a good decision.

~ J.x. Burros

Whether we're on the path toward victory or defeat is determined by the very next choice we make. Not the choices from yesterday. Not the choices five minutes ago.

~ Lysa Terkeurst

The right thing was confusing, and difficult, and sometimes Jason wondered if it was in fact a nonexistent ideal, like heaven or the American dream. There was no right thing. You did what you did for whatever reasons occurred to you at the time, depending on whichever emotion was running thickest in your blood. Your desire and fear and adrenaline and longing. You made your choice and came up with the reasons later.

~ Thomas Mullen

I swallowed hard. It was my life. And it was my choice how I decided to live it.

~ Heather Brewer

Try to choose carefully, Arren, when the great choices must be made. {...} But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again and yet again. Then very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

After Nicholas hung up the phone, he watched his mother carry buckets and garden tools across the couch grass toward a bed that would, come spring, be brightly ablaze as tropical coral with colorful arctotis, impatiens, and petunias. Katherine dug with hard chopping strokes, pulling out wandering jew and oxalis, tossing the uprooted weeds into a black pot beside her.The garden will be beautiful, he thought. But how do the weeds feel about it? Sacrifices must be made.

~ Stephen M. Irwin

Go far from home and yo will have a long way back.

~ Suzanne Woods Fisher

To make or not to make a choice is still considered you made a choice as it was choice to choose or not to choose to make a choice.

~ Auliq Ice

As beliefs, energies, and acceptance can change, so can choices. Don’t feel that because you have made a choice, it has to last forever. If it is time to change a choice, change it!

~ Kim Ha Campbell

Heaven and Hell are within you. Choose wisely or to hell with you!

~ Tapan Ghosh

Figure out how to balance Oliver with a career you’ve wanted your whole life,” he tells me. “Because you’ll end up with neither if you think you have to choose.

~ Christina Lauren

The Culture gives us so much, but in fact it’s only taking things away from us, lobotimizings everybody in it, taking away their choices, their potential for being really good or even slightly bad.

~ Iain M. Banks

And so everything depends on you, Bertie. Bishop or rook. Your life or mine. Do what you believe you have to do.

~ Félix J. Palma

All that incoherence. Selection, election, option, alternative. All behind him now. Codes and formats. Courses of action. Values, bias, predilection. Choice is a subtle form of disease.

~ Don Delillo