Choosing Quotes

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

~ Ulysses Brave

Nearly everyday life leans over and says, ‘Come on down!’ But standing at the bottom looking up, it’s finally dawned on me that it’s not these invitations that have dug this hole. Rather, it’s the fact that I accepted them.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

My life is a series of invitations accepted and invitations rejected, and the place I now find myself is often a result of accepting the wrong invitations and rejecting the right ones.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

To make a choice not to sacrifice is to decide that I am better off allowing a life to perish than release the resources I possess that might allow it to thrive. And because of choices such as these, the life that I am really allowing to perish is mine.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

There’s always another option.There’s always another one.It’s never only 'this' or 'that,'The moon or else the sun.Don’t sigh and choose the greaterOr lesser of two plights.But look to see the stars beyondFor options vast and bright.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

You can’t save everyone. It’s not an option.

~ Darren Shan

That's the nice thing about being human. We only have one life, but we can choose what kind of story it's going to be.

~ Rick Riordan

It turns out the simplest choices have been far more important in the long run than I ever imagined.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

He had his choice, and he liked the worst.

~ John Ciardi

When we say ‘Yes’ to something we are always saying‘No’ to something else. So in that way, we never ‘don’t do’ anything. We are just doing something else.

~ Malti Bhojwani

We have choice,” she insisted. “This is it. We don’t get to choose our choices, Gwain, we just get to make the ones we’re given...

~ Dianna Hardy

But someone sometime let you forget how to choose, and what. Someone let your peoples forget it was the only thing of importance, choosing. . . How to choose any but a child's greedy choices if there is no loving-filled father to guide, inform, teach the person how to choose? How is there freedom to choose if one does not learn how to choose?

~ David Foster Wallace

Would you marry you? Be the right person before seeking the right person. Solomon's bride is carefully chosen for the good of his family, for the good of his kingdom.pg 9

~ Michael Ben Zehabe

Seeking excellence means choosing to forge your own sword to cut through the limitations of your life...

~ James A. Murphy

Choose not to prove how wrong others are, but choose to show them on how to be right

~ De Philosopher Dj Kyos

And you shouldn't choose to care about someone. There shouldn't be a time and a place for it. Either you do or you don't. Don't try.” He looks off. “There can be falseness in trying to do something that should come naturally to people.

~ Celia Mcmahon

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

~ John Kenneth Galbraith