Choices Quotes

Fundamentally, we are a product of choice, not nature (genes) or nurture (upbringing, environment).

One thing we know for sure is that change is certain. Progress is not. Progress depends on the choices we make today for tomorrow and on whether we meet our challenges and protect our values.

Life does not give itself to one who tries to keep all its advantages at once. I have often thought morality may perhaps consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

What is it that you like doing? If you don't like it, get out of it, because you'll be lousy at it.

A better thing to grow up with is to be funny I think, and if I had, if I had my choice I would still pick that.

Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. Its simply a choice to take action.

Gratitude is the most fruitful way of deepening your consciousness that you are a divine choice.

Consciousness is observing your thoughts and actions so that you can live from true choice in the present moment rather than being run by programming from the past.

Freewill means that the Universe never judges, never interferes with your own choices - and sees you as a being of equal creative power.

Making a wrong choice early may limit making the right choice later.

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.

FORTRAN was the language of choice for the same reason that three-legged races are popular.

This is not a full circle. It's life carrying on. It's the next breath we all take. It's the choice we make to get on with it.

You make your life choices understanding that you might and do have to work harder to prove yourself.

Decisions are being made a mile a minute while you're making the work, and it has to come out of experience and vision.

I believe that we all have the potential to love any human being, and that genetics, upbringing, choice, social conditioning and environment play a major part in which way we sway.

The health you enjoy is largely your choice

Lesson learned: If a guy tells you you're his second choice, don't make him your first.

You either get free stuff or you get freedom. You cannot have both and you need to make a choice.

Never had a cup of coffee in my life. Dr Pepper is my caffeine delivery system of choice.

It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living, or get busy dying.

Why did I come here? I thought. Why is it always only a matter of choosing between something bad and something worse?

I can learn to live with guilt. I don't care about being good.

The Compound Effect is the principle of reaping huge rewards from a series of small, smart choices

Changing is what people do when they have no options left.

Better to be happy with the cod fish in your plate now, than to linger for the taste of a tuna that is still swimming in the sea.

War is an option of difficulties.

In such seconds of decision entire futures are made.

The hardest choices in life aren't between what's right and what's wrong but between what's right and what's best.

I've had too lengthy a career and coached too many players to make a choice.

Extreme exercise doesn’t save you from poor food choices. It can be difficult to exercise and erase away that chocolate cake or pizza pie. It doesn’t work that way.

I'm an actor. I can do whatever I want. As an actor, not everything has to be the most obvious choice. And sometimes, the best thing you can do is to defy expectations.

At any given moment in your life, you have the choice between love and fear. And that's a choice you make. You make the choice of how you react to events.

Where you are today is the sum of every choice you've ever made. If you don't like where you are, start making different choices!

An artist chooses his subjects: that is the way he praises.

Making choices that improve things for all of us on the planet is an act of compassion, a simple act we can do any time we go shopping.

Is it folly to believe in something that is intangible? After all, some of the greatest intangibles are Love, Hope, and Wonder. Another is Deity. The choice to be a fool is yours.

Every choice eventually leads to wisdom.

Scientific progress on a broad front results from the free play of free intellects, working on subjects of their own choice, in the manner dictated by their curiosity for exploration of the unknown.

I wake up every morning excited. Rather than become complacent or overwhelmed, I've made a choice for life - and I can do something about it.

Choice is the engine of our evolution.

If you make the right choice in casting, your work is nearly done already. You don't have to spend a lot of time directing the actors, because they're so well suited to the parts.

Love is a choice -- not simply, or necessarily, a rational choice, but rather a willingness to be present to others without pretense or guile.

When you love someone, you don't have a choice. Love takes your choices away. - Clary Fray

It is a big world that we live in, and people have a choice to love who they love.

In this world we must either institute conventional forms of expression or else pretend that we have nothing to express; the choice lies between a mask and a figleaf.

Life is about where you are right now, and the choices you make.

Whenever you're faced with an explanation of what's going on in Washington, the choice between incompetence and conspiracy, always choose incompetence.

There's an impression that actors make a lot of choices. I just take what's there.

That's how I digest it, 'cause I can press the fast-forward button and I know that I'm gonna have to continue to be an actor, continue to make choices, continue to perform in a show every week.