Choice / Choosing Quotes

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

No good friends, no bad friends; only people you want, need to be with. People who build their houses in your heart.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.

I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do that.
O. J. Simpson

Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief.
William Faulkner

Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like.

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
Noam Chomsky

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.
Dolly Parton

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell

Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.
Thomas Hardy

Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
John Locke

I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
Orson Welles

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

It's the kind of clothes that mothers and daughters can wear, in terms of concept... It's not about age. It's about taste, and it's about lifestyle. I believe women of all ages can wear anything.
Ralph Lauren

I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I'm not afraid to look behind them.
Elizabeth Taylor

Another occupation might have been better.
F. H. Bradley

Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.
Pythagoras

Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.
Ralph Ellison

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

You marvel at the economy and this choice of words. How many ways can you describe the sky and the moon? After Sylvia Plath, what can you say?

I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death.
Patrick Henry

If I had a choice of educating my daughters or my sons because of opportunity constraints, I would choose to educate my daughters.
Brigham Young

All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!
Carlos Castaneda

Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself alone, one question . . . Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't it is of no use."
Carlos Castaneda

A man is only as faithful as his options.
Chris Rock

There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.
Stephen Covey

My skin is more beautiful than yours. I would be quite more popular in jail if I so chose.
Gene Simmons

My favorite traditional Christmas movie that I like to watch is All Quiet on the Western Front. It's just not December without that movie in my house.
Tom Hanks

Every choice you make has an end result.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

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

A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.

Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us - and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning.

I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.

Here's the thing, you just have to drive a lot faster, and if you don't get there, we're both fired.
Bill Murray

I preferred sewing to bossing little children.
Mother Jones

Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.
Neil Armstrong

I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.
Emily Bronte

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.

The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.
Ralph Marston

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style.
Leo Tolstoy

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

If you don't give your kid freedom to make choices with money, including stupid choices, he'll make plenty when he gets to college.
John Gardner

In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.
J. Lubbock

I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
E. M. Forster

As an artist I'd choose the thing that's beautiful more than the one that's true.
Laurie Anderson

Drugs? Every one has a choice and I choose not to do drugs.