Choice Quotes

You can do what you want to do. You can be what you want to be.

David Thomas

If there are things you don't like in the world you grew up in, make your own life different.

David Thomas

I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.

Muriel Rukeyser, The Life of Poe

There's small choice in rotten apples.

William Shakespeare

He that drinks his cider alone, let him catch his horse alone.

Benjamin Franklin

We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road -- the one less traveled by -- offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.

Rachel Carson

The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.

Aldous Huxley

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

James Allen

At any given moment the choice to be happy is present- we just have to choose to be happy.

Steve Maraboli

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

Aristotle

There has never been another you. With no effort on your part you were born to be something very special and set apart. What you are going to do in appreciation of that gift is a decision only you can make.

Dan Zadra

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

George Eliot

It is your own convictions which compels you; that is, choice compels choice.

Epictetus

You have brains in your head.You have feet in your shoes.You can steer yourselfAny direction you choose.

Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel)

Yes and no are very powerful words. Mean them when you say them. Respect them when you hear them.

Michael Josephson

Watch what you choose to do. For instance, someone might want you to smoke. Never forget that I told you -- don't do it. Say no. That can of beer that somebody wants you to try, don't do it. Don't you ever do it. That drug that someone might want you to use, don't touch it. Stay away from it. It can destroy you.

Gordon B. Hinckley

It is always your next move.

Napoleon Hill

A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.

Harry Mathews

What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless who are homeless, you might say, by choice.

Ronald Reagan

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

George Eliot