130 Choosing One Quotes

Following is our list of choosing one quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about choosing the wrong one.

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Famous Choosing One Quotes

Pick your one overwhelming desire. — Naval Ravikant

Choose your love, Love your choice. — Thomas S. Monson

There are thousands of choices but just one Bitcoin. — Michael Saylor

You're standing in a room with a thousand doors, your job is to choose one and ignore the 999 other doors, and walk through that. — Tom Bilyeu

One should choose the lesser of two evils. — Danish Proverbs

When you make a choice, you change the future. — Deepak Chopra

Carefully choose what to care about. — Mark Manson

Choose the habit that best suits you, not the one that is the most popular. — James Clear

BE PURPOSEFUL AND THOUGHTFUL IN THE CHOICES YOU MAKE WHEN THE OPTIONS ARE NEARLY INFINITE. — Michael Bierut

Really, what are the options? Levi's or Wranglers. And you just pick one. It's one of those life choices. — Harrison Ford

Planning is a process of choosing among those many options. If we do not choose to plan, then we choose to have others plan for us. — Richard I. Winwood

When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take -- choose the bolder. — William Joseph Slim

When deciding between two similar options, people will naturally gravitate toward the option that requires the least amount of work. — James Clear

When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take choose the bolder. — William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim

If you have difficulties making a decision, choose the lesser of the two evils. — Osho

Short Choosing One Quotes

  • But the undodgeable reality of a finite human life is that you are going to have to choose. — Oliver Burkeman
  • If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. — Neil Peart
  • In life everyone has a choice. The key is: make a right choice. — DJ Khaled
  • A moment of choice is a moment of truth. — Stephen Covey
  • When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that in itself is a choice. — William James
  • You must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best — C. S. Lewis
  • When eating choose the place, when playing choose your friends. — Vietnamese Proverbs
  • You are creating through your choices, even now. Choose wisely. — Bryant H. McGill
  • The one word that makes a good manager -- decisiveness. — Lee Iacocca
  • We are made up of two contrasting ideals: Love And Fear. Pick One and Live. — Axl Rose

Top 10 Choosing One Quotes

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another. — William James

One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again. — Abraham Maslow

Be careful who you call your friends. I’d rather have four quarters than one hundred pennies. — Al Capone

Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation. — Viktor E. Frankl

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. — Viktor E. Frankl

You are the only one who gets to decide what you will be remembered for. - Taylor Swift

You are the only one who gets to decide what you will be remembered for. — Taylor Swift

If one day you have to choose between the world and love, remember this: If you choose the world you’ll be left without love, but if you choose love, with it you will conquer the world — Albert Einstein

There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands. — Oscar Wilde

Don't choose the one who is beautiful to the world. But rather, choose the one who makes your world beautiful. -Harry Styles — Harry Styles

Worry and worship cannot exist in the same space. One always displaces the other. Choose worship. — Louie Giglio

Choosing One Image Quotes

Without friends no one would choose to live. - Aristotle quote

Without friends no one would choose to live. — Aristotle

Choose only one master - Nature. - Rembrandt quote

Choose only one master - Nature. — Rembrandt

Choosing one quote One of the most important decisions you'll ever face in life is choosing whether to walk away or try
One of the most important decisions you'll ever face in life is choosing whether to walk away or try harder.

Choosing The Right One Quotes

Right, wrong, good, bad, heaven, hell. I think that is the theme of my life. I think you have to know both in order to honestly choose one. So I'm familiar with both sides of the fence. — DMX

When all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

In order to choose the right path, we do not have to figure out the wrong one... we just need to follow the light. — Akiane Kramarik

Choosing one quote If you love two people at the same time, choose the second. Because if you really loved the first on
If you love two people at the same time, choose the second. Because if you really loved the first one, you wouldn't have fallen for the second.

Lingerie is one of the most important pieces of your wardrobe. You can have a wardrobe malfunction if you dont choose the right thing to wear underneath! — Adriana Lima

We always know, we always know, which is the right way to go, and which is the wrong way to go. Sometimes, the wrong way is easier to go, or more satisfying, and so we choose that way instead of the right one and we justify it with complicated wordplay and such; but we are only kidding ourselves. — Milton William Cooper

I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one. — A. E. Housman

Choosing one quote Feelings are much like waves, we can't stop them from coming but we can choose which ones to surf.
Feelings are much like waves, we can't stop them from coming but we can choose which ones to surf.

Across the country military families are facing dire financial circumstances due to longer than expected tours of duties. They are being penalized for their patriotism - no one should have to choose between doing right by their country and doing right by their families. — Evan Bayh

Robots do not love. God created us with the capacity to love. Love is based upon one's right to choose to love. We cannot force others to love us. We can make them serve us or obey us. But true love is founded upon one's freedom to choose to respond. — Billy Graham

Focus on a few key objectives ... I only have three things to do. I have to choose the right people, allocate the right number of dollars, and transmit ideas from one division to another with the speed of light. So I'm really in the business of being the gatekeeper and the transmitter of ideas. — Jack Welch

Not voting is one of the worst things that could happen in our community. You can vote for whoever you want to, but choosing not to vote spits in the face of our ancestors who fought for our right to vote. — Otis Moss III

Choosing The Wrong One Quotes

And having once chosen, never to seek to return to the crossroads of that decision-for even if one chooses wrongly, the choice cannot be unmade. — Jacqueline Carey

Choosing the right people to surround you, and letting go of the wrong ones, takes courage. Be courageous! — Tony Curl

Sometimes you have to choose between a bunch of wrong choices and no right ones. You just have to choose which wrong choices feels the least wrong. — Colleen Hoover

Choosing one quote The last of the human freedoms - to choose ones attitude in any given set of circumstances.
The last of the human freedoms - to choose ones attitude in any given set of circumstances.

No choice is the wrong choice as long as you make a choice. The only wrong choice is choosing not to make one. — Jake Abel

Indeed, Xcor stayed away for the wrong reason, the bad reason, an unacceptable reason—in spite of all his training, he found himself choosing Throe’s life over ambition: His anger had taken him in one direction, but his regret had led him in another. And the latter one was what won out. — J.R. Ward

Of the hundreds of points to enter and exit that are offered to me, I have to choose the one that I feel is the least wrong, the least fake. It is fake, it is a moment that I choose to erupt the story, but I make it as smooth as I can. What enables me to do it is the skill of filmmaking. — Abbas Kiarostami

Choosing one quote The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

A life I didn't choose chose me: even my tools are the wrong ones for what I have to do. — Adrienne Rich

The way I figured it, keeping quiet was safe. Words could betray you if you choose the wrong ones, or mean less if you used too many. — Robyn

When all of us are acknowledged as the human equals that we really are, there will be no space left for bullying. It will no longer be wrong to choose one thing over another. — Jason Mraz

When you always know what is right, where is freedom? No one chooses the wrong, Jacen Solo. Uncertainty sets you free." -Vergere — Matthew Woodring Stover

Choosing The One You Love Quotes

if you love two people at the same time, choose the second. Because if you really loved the first one, you wouldn't have fallen for the second. — Johnny Depp

If you fall in love with 2 people at once choose the second one because if you truly loved the first one you never would have fell in love with the second one — Johnny Depp

I am not the one who loves - It's love that chooses me. When hatred with his package comes, you forbid delivery... — Leonard Cohen

Choosing one quote If you love two people at the same time choose the second one. Because if you really loved the first
If you love two people at the same time choose the second one. Because if you really loved the first one, you wouldn't have falled for the second

Remember that people come and go, and of all the people in your life, you are the one who is there to stay. You are the one who can choose to love yourself, choose to respect yourself, and promise with all your heart and soul that you will never leave you. — Kimberly Kirberger

There are only 2 responses to the world, fear or love. Your life depends on which one you choose. — Deepak Chopra

Either you lead a life which is luxurious on the material level or you lead a luxurious life of God's blessings. One of these two you have to choose, the time has come. — Nirmala Srivastava

The bottom line in love is not whether someone loves you, but whether someone chooses you. — Marianne Williamson

Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can't have the one you want. — Louisa May Alcott

You know, it's a really adult thing, for some people, to choose to not be with the one that you love. — Parker Posey

One of the reasons I love the online world is that although that exists in abundance you can choose absolutely which part of the online world you want to live in. You can make your own kingdom in that sense. — Stephen Fry

Choosing Joy Quotes

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared. — Buddha

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. - Kahlil Gibran

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. — Kahlil Gibran

There is no heaven of glory bright, and no hell where sinners roast. Here and now is our day of torment! Here and now is our day of joy! Here and now is our opportunity! Choose ye this day, this hour, for no redeemer liveth! — Anton Szandor LaVey

Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it. — Kevyn Aucoin

You are free to think thoughts of worry or joy, and whatever you choose will attract the same kind back to you. Worry attracts worry. Joy attracts joy. — Rhonda Byrne

Scientists have discovered that the small, brave act of cooperating with another person, of choosing trust over cynicism, generosity over selfishness, makes the brain light up with quiet joy. — Natalie Angier

Anyone who has a choice and doesn't choose to write is a fool. The work is hard, the perks are few, the pay is terrible, and the product, when it's finally finished, is pure joy. — Mary Lee Settle

Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. — Henri Nouwen

We all pretend for a while or for a lifetime. But pretending is not living...I believe that God meant for life to take our breath away, sometimes because of the sheer joy of it all and sometimes because of the severe pain. To choose living over pretending means that we will know both. — Angela Thomas

Every day is a miracle. No matter how bad my circumstances, I have the freedom to choose my attitude to life, even to find joy. Evil is not new. It is up to us how we deal with both good and bad. No one can take this power away from us. — Alice Herz-Sommer

Choose The Right Man Quotes

I live by a man's code, designed to fit a man's world, yet at the same time I never forget that a woman's first job is to choose the right shade of lipstick. — Carole Lombard

We are living in what the Greeks called the kairos - the right moment - for a 'metamorphosis of the gods', of the fundamental principles and symbols. This peculiarity of our time, which is certainly not of our conscious choosing, is the expression of the unconscious man within us who is changing. — Carl Jung

Try to imagine a man setting out for the day without a single prejudice. ... Inevitably he would be in a state of paralysis. He could not get up in the morning, or choose his necktie, or make his way to the office, ... or, to come right down to the essence of the thing, even maintain his identity. — Richard M. Weaver

Bread sets free; but does not necessarily set free for good ends -- that dear illusion of so many generous hearts. It sets a man free to choose: it often sets free for the bad, but man has a right to that choice and to that evil, without which he is no longer a man. — Francoise Mallet-Joris

Every man should have the right to choose their destiny. — Bob Marley

The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution. — Seneca

The man with the knapsack is never lost. No matter whither he may stray, his food and shelter are right with him, and home is wherever he may choose to stop. — Horace Kephart

Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice and the exercise of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing. — Archibald MacLeish

He wished he could reassure his mother: a man wants many things in life, but when one of them is also the right thing, he would be a fool not to choose it. — Jess Walter

And I must believe that man has the power to know the right, to choose between good and evil and know that his choice has made a difference. — Marion Zimmer Bradley

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More Choosing One Quotes

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it. — Groucho Marx

I’m a feminist so I believe in inhabiting contradictions. I believe in making contradictions productive, not in having to choose one side or the other side. As opposed to choosing either or, choosing both. — Angela Davis

Just think, you're here not by chance, but by God's choosing. His hand formed you and made you the person you are. He compares you to no one else - You are one of a kind. You lack nothing that His grace can't give you. He has allowed you to be here in this time in history to fulfill His special purpose for this generation. — Roy Lessin

Anyone can achieve their fullest potential, who we are might be predetermined, but the path we follow is always of our own choosing. We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny. Your destiny can't be changed but, it can be challenged. Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one. — Martin Heidegger

This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy. — Susan Polis Schutz

The symbol in Chinese for crisis is made up of two ideographs: one means danger, the other means opportunity. This symbol is a reminder that we can choose to turn a crisis into an opportunity or into a negative experience. — Virginia Satir

Love is the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth... Love is as love does. Love is an act of will -- namely, both an intention and an action. Will also implies choice. We do not have to love. We choose to love. — M. Scott Peck

One cannot choose wisely for a life unless he dares to listen to himself, his own self, at each moment of his life. — Abraham Maslow

Life's just one great journey. It's a road we travel as we go from point A to point B. What makes that journey worthwhile is the people we choose to travel with, the people we hold close as we take steps into the darkness and blindly make our way through life. They're the people who matter. — Dr. Seuss

More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly. — Woody Allen

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission. — John F. Kennedy

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission. — John F. Kennedy

One essential object is to choose that arrangement which shall tend to reduce to a minimum the time necessary for completing the calculation. — Ada Lovelace

Bilingualism is not an imposition on the citizens. The citizens can go on speaking one language or six languages, or no languages if they so choose. Bilingualism is an imposition on the state and not the citizens. — Pierre Trudeau

No one is perfect. If you look for the bad you will find it. If you look for the good, you will find it. Choose wisely what you look for. — Lex Fridman

Friends are the family that you choose. — Jess C Scott

We all get dealt cards. Some of us get better cards than others. And while it’s easy to get hung up on our cards, and feel we got screwed over, the real game lies in the choices we make with those cards, the risk we decide to take, and the consequences we choose to live with. People who consistently make the best choices in the situations they’re given are the ones who eventually come out ahead in poker, just as in life. And it’s not necessarily the people with the best cards. — Mark Manson

The only way love can last a lifetime is if it's unconditional. The truth is this: love is not determined by the one being loved but rather by the one choosing to love. — Stephen Kendrick

Nice words are free, so choose ones that please another’s ears. — Vietnamese Proverbs

We cannot choose one desktop over the other - Gnome or KDE - because there's users for both code bases. — Miguel de Icaza

I've invented Twofacebook, the antisocial network. You start being friends w/entire world & defriend people one by one. — Andy Borowitz

Everyone has the ability to accomplish unique feats, everyone. You choose this. Become someone great in one other life. Forget about failing to many. Who cares? Doesn't matter when you start or finish, just start, no deviations, no excuses. — Tom Platz

If one day, my words are against science, choose science. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other. — Thomas Jefferson

One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles. — Igor Stravinsky

One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves. You don't choose your passions; your passions choose you. — Jeff Bezos

Rest is a decision we make. Rest is choosing to do nothing when we have too much to do, slowing down when we feel pressure to go faster, stopping instead of starting. Rest is listening to our weariness and responding to our tiredness, not to what is making us tired. Rest is what happens when we say one simple word: “No! — Mike Yaconelli

I absolutely love doing games in Baton Rouge. Night games in Tiger Stadium are a spectacle and the food choices all around are fantastic! One thing is certain: if I ever choose to feature a tailgating spread for Taste of the Town, LSU will be at the top of the list. — Todd Blackledge

I'm trying to broaden the scope of positive psychology well beyond the smiley face. Happiness is just one-fifth of what human beings choose to do. — Martin Seligman

Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all. — Andrzej Sapkowski

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