177 Making Choices Quotes

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Famous Making Choices Quotes

Every day brings new choices. — Martha Beck

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

Life is a matter of choices, and every choice you make makes you. — John C. Maxwell

Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you. — Gayle Forman

The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way. — Alice Waters

Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do. — Jose Ortega y Gasset

You are creating through your choices, even now. Choose wisely. - Bryant H. McGill

You are creating through your choices, even now. Choose wisely. — Bryant H. McGill

In life everyone has a choice. The key is: make a right choice. — DJ Khaled

It's all about choices! You choose, you make the rules, not tobacco companies, not addiction — John Kehoe

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that in itself is a choice. - William James

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that in itself is a choice. — William James

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

Life's simple, you make choices and you don't look back. — Sung Kang

Every choice you make has an end result. - Zig Ziglar

Every choice you make has an end result. — Zig Ziglar

Every choice moves us closer to or farther away from something. Where are your choices taking your life? What do your behaviors demonstrate that you are saying yes or no to in life? — Eric Allenbaugh

Every choice moves us closer to or farther away from something. Where are your choices taking your life? What do your behaviors demonstrate that you are saying yes or no to in life? — Eric Allen

Short Making Choices Quotes

  • Our future experiences will be colored by the choices we make in the present. — Noah Levine
  • Life is a sum of all your choices". So, what are you doing today? — Albert Camus
  • You write your life story by the choices you make. — Helen Mirren
  • The choices we make about the lives we live determine the kinds of legacies we leave. — Tavis Smiley
  • If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. — Neil Peart
  • Because it's our choices that makes us who we are. — Jeff Kinney
  • Empowered women who reach tough or unconventional positions make CHOICES not sacrifices — Kiran Bedi
  • We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it's a continuing choice. — John C. Maxwell
  • Every successful person has to decide what to do in part by deciding what not to do. — Angela Duckworth

Top 10 Making Choices Quotes

People will hurt you. But don't use that as an excuse for your poor choices, use it as motivation to make the right ones. — LeCrae

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

My message to women: Do what makes you feel good, because there'll always be someone who thinks you should do it differently. Whether your choices are hits or misses, at least they're your own. — Michelle Obama

Adolescents need freedom to choose, but not so much freedom that they cannot, in fact, make a choice. — Erik Erikson

The worst thing you can do is nothing. - Terry Pratchett

The worst thing you can do is nothing. — Terry Pratchett

Choice is not a form of freedom in the sense of the word; choice is the act of hesitation that occurs before making a decision. — Alan Watts

Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. [It is a matter of choice, not chance.] Such is the first principle of existentialism. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Sin is not simply making bad choices or mistakes. Sin is having the desire in our hearts to do the will of the enemy of God. — R. C. Sproul

Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy. - Milton H. Erickson

Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy. — Milton H. Erickson

When the choice is to be right or to be kind, always make the choice that brings peace. — Wayne Dyer

Making Choices Image Quotes

My choices are like my fingerprints, they make me unique - Deepika Padukone quote

My choices are like my fingerprints, they make me unique — Deepika Padukone

Habits are products of our choice; we are what we make of ourselves. - E. W. Kenyon quote

Habits are products of our choice; we are what we make of ourselves. — E. W. Kenyon

If you are just safe about the choices you make, you don't grow. - Heath Ledger quote

If you are just safe about the choices you make, you don't grow. — Heath Ledger

Making choices quote Everything in your life is a reflection of a choice you  have made. If you want a different result,
Everything in your life is a reflection of a choice you have made. If you want a different result, make a different choice.
You have two choices: You can make a living, or you can design a life. - Jim Rohn quote

You have two choices: You can make a living, or you can design a life. — Jim Rohn

Love is a choice you make everyday. - Gary Chapman quote

Love is a choice you make everyday. — Gary Chapman

Making choices quote The 3 C's in life: Choice, Chance, Change. You must make the choice, take the chance, if you want an
The 3 C's in life: Choice, Chance, Change. You must make the choice, take the chance, if you want anything in life to change.

Life Is About Making Choices Quotes

One of the most important things that I have learned in my 57 years is that life is all about choices. On every journey you take, you face choices. At every fork in the road, you make a choice. And it is those decisions that shape our lives. — Mike DeWine

Life is about making choices: you can either spend three quid on a glossy magazine or you can spend it clearing three square metres of minefield and help give people their lives back. As simple as that. — Sayings

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose. — Tennessee Williams

Making choices quote Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. — Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Authenticity is a collection of choices that we have to make every day. It's about the choice to show up and be real. The choice to be honest. The choice to let our true selves be seen. — Brené Brown

Making choices quote Never interrupt your enemy when they are making a mistake.
Never interrupt your enemy when they are making a mistake.

Life is all about making choices and I'm very happy with mine. I have had a wonderful time raising four children and I've also been lucky to have the support of a wonderful husband. — Meryl Streep

Life is about making tough choices. Sometimes you have to go where your career is going. — Bill Maher

The right to life is not a woman's issue. The Lord is the giver of life and only He can make choices about life. It is always a reward to have life ... only the Lord gives and takes life. — Margaret Heckler

The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now. — Taylor Swift

Making Hard Choices Quotes

It's all in your headJ you have the power to make things seem hard or easy or even amusing. The choice is yours. — Seneca

I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday. — Eleanor Roosevelt

People who are successful decide they are going to be successful. They make that choice. They decide to study hard. They decide to work hard. They decide to be the first person to get to work and the last to go home. — Jocko Willink

Making choices quote Heaven on Earth is a choice you must make, not a place you must find.
Heaven on Earth is a choice you must make, not a place you must find.

You cannot make progress without making decisions. — Jim Rohn

Motherhood is a choice you make every day, to put someone else's happiness and well-being ahead of your own, to teach the hard lessons, to do the right thing even when you're not sure what the right thing is... and to forgive yourself, over and over again, for doing everything wrong. — Donna Ball

I had to be physically and emotionally naked, show both my body and soul. I felt emotionally vulnerable and physically exposed, it was a hard choice to make but I was intrigued since the beginning. I think that...the things that scare you the most are the ones you gotta do. — Dakota Johnson

Making choices quote Of all the choices you make each day none is more important than the choice of a positive attitude.
Of all the choices you make each day none is more important than the choice of a positive attitude.

You need to be uncomfortable and apprehensive: True strategy is about placing bets and making hard choices. The objective is not to eliminate risk but to increase the odds of success. — Roger Martin

If there's no action, you haven't truly decided. — Tony Robbins

When we find inspiration, we need to take action for ourselves and for our communities. Even if it means making a hard choice, or cutting out something and leaving it in your past. — Aron Ralston

We have a hope of succeeding if we learn from our past mistakes and pull together to make the hard choices. — Carl Levin

Making Bad Choices Quotes

I put God first, and strive to do my best by being a loving human being, recognizing that sometimes I make mistakes and bad choices. — Common

you never make the same mistake twice. the second time you make it, it is no longer a mistake. it is a choice — Lauren Conrad

To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband! — Samuel Richardson

Making choices quote If you want a new tomorrow, then make new choices today.
If you want a new tomorrow, then make new choices today.

Fear is at the root of so many of the barriers that women face. Fear of not being liked. Fear of making the wrong choice. Fear of drawing negative attention. Fear of overreaching. Fear of being judged. Fear of failure. And the holy trinity of fear: the fear of being a bad mother/wife/daughter. — Sheryl Sandberg

Anger is just anger. It isn't good. It isn't bad. It just is. What you do with it is what matters. It's like anything else. You can use it to build or to destroy. You just have to make the choice. — Jim Butcher

You can make bad choices and find yourself in a downward spiral or you can find something that gets you out of it. — Ray LaMontagne

It's bad enough for me to make choices that hurt my own relationship with God. How much more serious is it to be the cause of someone else deciding to sin? Not only must I choose the pathway of holiness for God's sake and for my own sake; I must also do it for the sake of others. — Nancy Leigh DeMoss

Everyone makes choices in life. Some bad, some good. It's called living, and if you want to bow out, then go right ahead. But don't do it halfway. Don't linger in whiner's limbo. — Maria V. Snyder

I think you can do something bad, and it doesn't make you a bad person. We are not defined by any one choice. We are the sum of our experiences, and we can make a bad choice and turn around and do better. — Sayings

The past is a rich resource on which we can draw in order to make decisions for the future, but it does not dictate our choices. We should look back at the past and select what is good, and leave behind what is bad. — Nelson Mandela

Making Better Choices Quotes

Above all we must realize that each of us makes a difference with our life. Each of us impacts the world around us every single day. We have a choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place - or not to bother — Jane Goodall

In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make. He can choose the fair and open path, the path which sound ethics, sound democracy, and the common law prescribe, or choose the secret way by which he can get the better of his fellow man. — Ida Tarbell

To be simple means to make a choice about what's important, and let go of all the rest. When we are able to do this, our vision expands, our heads clear, and we can better see the details of our lives in all their incredible wonder and beauty. — John Daido Loori

It's better to make a mistake with the full force of your being than to timidly avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit. Responsibility means recognizing both pleasure and price, action and consequence, then making a choice. — Dan Millman

Like a lot of people, I’ve always enjoyed commenting on strangers’ outfits. Unlike a lot of people, I now had a new megaphone to do it with. And, let me tell you, commenting on people’s hilarious clothing choices through a megaphone makes it so much better. — Demetri Martin

You've got two choices: you could either complain about it, or use it as fuel to make you a better person. — Brent Smith

The key to our transformation is simply this: the better we know ourselves the better equipped we will be to make our choices wisely. — Gregg Braden

People of poor character tend to blame their choices on circumstances. Ethical people make good choices regardless of circumstances. If they make enough good choices, they begin to create better conditions for themselves. — John C. Maxwell

So, take what's inside you and make big, bold choices and for those who can't speak for themselves, use bold voices and make friends and love well, bring art to this place and make the world better for the whole human race. — Jamie Lee Curtis

There are cases when I can make myself better off by restricting my future choices and commit myself to a specific course of action. — Richard Thaler

Making Your Own Choices Quotes

If you want to succeed you must never stop learning, never stop trying and just keep being yourself. You are your own person. You make the choices in life that affect you. — Ruby Rose

Being a hero is a choice you can make, not a cape someone else will drape over you. You make your own cape. — Alexi Pappas

I'm just kind of taking a break now and enjoying the freedom of making my own choices. When you're on a television show for six years, they run your schedule. — Andrew Shue

Your own life is the way it is because of you, and the choices you have made - or failed to make. — Neale Donald Walsch

If you did it, own it. If you said it, stand by it. Not just the mistakes, but all your decisions and choices. That’s your reputation. Make it count. If you want your opinions to have value, you have to be willing to put them out there and mean what you say. — Tim Grover

You can't blame anyone else, ... , no one but yourself. You have to make your own choices and live every agonizing day with the consequences of those choices. — Max Brooks

Abortion is abortion. Maybe you should have more protected sex? But if you get raped and get pregnant why would you keep that kid? I believe you should make your own choice - you're human. That's for you and God to deal with afterwards. — Sean Price

If you take a single word...and make it your own on a day-to-day basis, I hope it's choose. Being able to choose to act differently, even while feeling the old way, may be the most liberating growth you can accomplish. — Sue Thoele

Your parents will die before you do, so you'd better make your own life decisions. Your own choices are always good if you know yourself - especially in art, because whenever you do something new, everyone will be against you. — Yoshitaka Amano

I am completely in charge of the choices I make about what I am doing to lose weight and get healthy. And you know what? We all have this power. Don’t be angry with me for something good I’ve done for myself. Be angry with yourself for not having the courage to do the same in your own life. — Jennifer Hudson

Making Wrong Choices Quotes

We lose the fear of making decisions, great and small; as we realize that should our choice prove wrong we can, if we will, learn from the experience. — Bill W.

The best thing you can do is follow your dreams - The Rev

The best thing you can do is follow your dreams — The Rev

If you have a 2 or 3 year old who is not talking, you must start an early intervention program. The worst thing you can do with an autistic 3 year old is to do nothing. — Temple Grandin

I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to choose the road that I have the most passion on because then you can never really blame yourself for making the wrong choices. You can always say you're following your passion. — Darren Aronofsky

Only by taking responsibility for oneself, to the greatest extent possible, can one ever be free, and only a free person can make responsible choices - between right and wrong, saving and spending, giving or taking. — Paul Ryan

Every time you make the hard, correct decision you become a bit more courageous, and every time you make the easy, wrong decision you become a bit more cowardly. If you are CEO, these choices will lead to a courageous or cowardly company. — Ben Horowitz

Consider what you think justice requires, and decide accordingly. But never give your reasons; for your judgment will probably be right, but your reasons will certainly be wrong. — William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

In Jazz, improvisation isn't a matter of just making any ol' thing up. Jazz, like any language, has its own grammer and vocabulary. There's no right or wrong, just some choices that are better than others. — Wynton Marsalis

I dont believe in good human beings, but I believe you can have structures that make it easier to make the right choice or the wrong choice. — Justin Welby

Your job is to be you, which includes being the chief beneficiary of all things you do right, the chief victim of all you do wrong, and the one person on Earth who has to live with every choice you make. As gatekeeper to your life, you’re it. — Carolyn Hax

Making The Right Choices In Life Quotes

To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions. — Deepak Chopra

There comes a time in the spiritual journey when you start making choices from a very different place. And if a choice lines up so that it supports truth, health, happiness, wisdom and love, it's the right choice. — Angeles Arrien

The choices that women make have huge impact on families, on communities and on nations. Being able to provide an enabling environment for them to exercise their rights and make choices in their lives is crucial. It is at the heart of human development! — Babatunde Osotimehin

To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. — Deepak Chopra

So each time you do a shift in your life, right, or you do a change in your life, then sometimes it feels like it's not gonna happen. And your career is not gonna do well. And the next thing you know is that these choices that you make actually catapult you to the next level. — Goldie Hawn

You live in a time of great challenges and opportunities. As spirit sons of heavenly parents, you are free to make the right choices. This requires hard work, self-discipline, and an optimistic outlook, which will bring joy and freedom into your life now and in the future. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

If there was a birthday party or a gathering and I was at training and couldn't make it, then I guess I might have missed out on a few things, but I wouldn't see them as sacrifices because I love what I do so much. I feel I've made the right choices in the way I've lived my life. — Liam Tancock

50-100 years from now we are all going to be eating a plant based diet. Whether that happens through a catastrophe or a peaceful sustainable life giving way is based on whether we make the right choices now and how we fight in this struggle together. — Mark Bittman

Making Healthy Choices Quotes

I keep my diet simple by sticking to mostly fruits and vegetables all day and then having whatever I want for dinner. I end up making healthy choices, like sushi or grilled fish, because I feel so good from eating well. — Sayings

We didn’t evolve to be healthy, but instead we were selected to have as many offspring as possible under diverse, challenging conditions. As a consequence, we never evolved to make rational choices about what to eat or how to exercise in conditions of abundance and comfort. — Daniel Lieberman

Permanent results come from consistency. Small choices that you make every day add up to a healthy microbiome for life. — Will Bulsiewicz

Transformation is not five minutes from now; it's a present activity. In this moment you can make a different choice, and it's these small choices and successes that build up over time to help cultivate a healthy self-image and self esteem. — Jillian Michaels

Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice. — Michelle Obama

Even if we give parents all the information they need and we improve school meals and build brand new supermarkets on every corner, none of that matters if when families step into a restaurant, they can't make a healthy choice. — Michelle Obama

When you can, it's good to make healthy choices. But, I also believe in balance. It's not about being 100 percent this way or that way. It's about making healthy choices when you can. — Miranda Kerr

Each second is a second you can make a new choice, a better choice, a healthy choice, a present choice. — Mariel Hemingway

I want people to make the same choice I made to get healthy. — Star Jones

If we make wholesome, healthy food accessible and affordable for everyone, we make the choice to be healthy an easy one. — Daphne Oz

Choices You Make Quotes

Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy. No person will make you happy unless you decide to be happy. Your happiness will not come to you. It can only come from you. — Ralph Marston

You cannot live your life to please others. The choice must be yours. - Anne Hathaway

You cannot live your life to please others. The choice must be yours. — Anne Hathaway

Everything you do is based on the choices you make. It's not your parents, your past relationships, your job, the economy, the weather, an argument or your age that is to blame. You and only you are responsible for every decision and choice you make. Period. — Wayne Dyer

You know, some people say life is short and that you could get hit by a bus at any moment and that you have to live each day like it's your last. Bullshit. Life is long. You're probably not gonna get hit by a bus. And you're gonna have to live with the choices you make for the next fifty years. — Chris Rock

'It only put me in Gryffindor,' said Harry in a defeated voice, 'because I asked not to go in Slytherin...' 'Exactly' said Dumbledore, beaming once more. 'Which makes you very different from Tom Riddle. It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.' — J. K. Rowling

This fork in the road happens over a hundred times a day, and it's the choices that you make that will determine the shape of your life. — Liz Murray

Happiness is a choice and a skill and you can dedicate yourself to learning that skill and making that choice. — Naval Ravikant

Ten years from now, make sure you can say that you CHOSE your life, you didn’t SETTLE for it. — Mandy Hale

Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy. — Ralph Marston

Heaven on Earth is a choice you must make, not a place you must find. — Wayne Dyer

Make The Right Choice Quotes

We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely. — E. O. Wilson

My feminism, as intended by me, extends to empowering women to make legal choices, not to judge the legal choices they make. My fight is for rights. — Maajid Nawaz

A human being has been given an intellect to make choices, and we know there are other food sources that do not require the killing of a creature that would protest being killed. — Mary Tyler Moore

The single most important thing people can do for their health is to make the right food choices. And the single most important thing they can do for the planet is also to make the right food choices. We haven’t emphasised that yet, but it’s coming. — Tim Spector

You can do anything you decide to do. — Amelia Earhart

Without quality sleep, NOTHING else matters. You won't make the right choices with diet and you won't have energy or motivation to work out. — Mark Burhenne

You can't afford to get sick, and you can't depend on the present health care system to keep you well. It's up to you to protect and maintain your body's innate capacity for health and healing by making the right choices in how you live. — Andrew Weil

Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. — J. C. Watts

Whether you do something or decide to do nothing, either way, you are making a moral choice. And I hope people make the right one. — Khaled Hosseini

How can one know who his spiritual teacher is?...His heart looks at the spiritual Masters and makes the choice. When the heart sees a spiritual Master, if it is overwhelmed with joy, then there is every probability that that spiritual Master is the right one for the seeker. — Sri Chinmoy

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More Making Choices Quotes

I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude. It is more important than my past, my education, my bankroll, my successes or failures, fame or pain, what other people think of me or say about me, my circumstances, or my position. — Charles R. Swindoll

Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it's about deliberately choosing to be different. — Michael Porter

The most important decision I've made in business? The choices of people I have around me. When I first started I brought everybody with me, my homies from the neighborhood, criminals. I just said, 'Come on everybody, we made it.' Then I had to realize we didn't make it. I made it. — Snoop Dogg

I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life. — Louise Hay

Disappointment is inevitable. But to become discouraged, there's a choice I make. God would never discourage me. He would always point me to himself to trust him. Therefore, my discouragement is from Satan. As you go through the emotions that we have, hostility is not from God, bitterness, unforgiveness, all of these are attacks from Satan. — Charles Stanley

Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play. — Willie Nelson

Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline. — James C. Collins

When I don't make a decision, it's not that I don't think about it. I think about it and make a decision not to make a decision. — P. V. Narasimha Rao

We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

The truth for women living in a modern world is that they must take increasing responsibility for the skills they bring into birth if they want their birth to be natural. Making choices of where and with whom to birth is not the same as bringing knowledge and skills into your birth regardless of where and with whom you birth. — Michel Odent

Baby, we have no choice of what color we're born or who our parents are or whether we're rich or poor. What we do have is some choice over what we make of our lives once we're here. — Mildred D. Taylor

Once you stop believing that it might somehow be possible to avoid hard choices about time, it gets easier to make better ones. You begin to grasp that when there’s too much to do, and there always will be, the only route to psychological freedom is to let go of the limit-denying fantasy of getting it all done and instead to focus on doing a few things that count. — Oliver Burkeman

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