Quotes About Choices

The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices. Then our choices make us.

We all live but we don't know the why or the wherefore. We all live with the object of being happy, our lives are all different and yet the same. We have the chance to learn, the possibility of attaining something, we have all reason to hope for much happiness, but we must earn it for ourselves. And that is never easy. You must work and do good, not be lazy and gamble, if you wish to earn happiness. Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

Kill the pain. I don't smoke or drink anymore. I'm too worried to gamble, too guilty to shoplift, and I've always hated clothes shopping. So what choices did that leave? I could go on a strict new diet or conversely, I could stuff myself to the rafters with fat, sugar and carcinogens. Ding! Ding! We have a winner.

There are, in fact, certain roads that one may follow. Simplification of life is one of them.

There are certain roads that one may follow. Simplification of life is one of them.

You don't have to take upon yourself the burden of murder or madness to be free of this place. Surly there must be other ways.

Why don't people do what they really want to do, Reuben?" he asked. "Why do we so often settle for what makes us devoutly unhappy! Why do we accept that happiness just isn't possible?

I can see all the stories of my life. I can pick and choose from among them.

The threads of your life, they aren't woven into any certain fabric.

Sometimes he fantasised that at the end of his life, he would be shown a home movie of all the roads he had not taken, and where they would have led.

he was a party-giver." "But he never felt party-giving was really his true life," Poppy reminded her. "Well, no." "And that's where he and I differed," Poppy said. "Because I was always telling him, 'Look,' I said. 'Face it,' I said. 'There is no true life. Your true life is the one you end up with, whatever it may be. You just do the best you can with what you've got,' I said.

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour and with that one, is what we are doing.

Let the grass die. I let almost all of my indoor plants die from neglect while I was writing the book. There are all kinds of ways to live. You can take your choice. You can keep a tidy house, and when St. Peter asks you what you did with your life, you can say, 'I kept a tidy house, I made my own cheese balls.

First agriculture, and then industry, changed two fundamental things about the human experience. The accumulation of personal property allowed people to make more and more individualistic choices about their lives, and those choices unavoidably diminished group efforts toward a common good.

Some of these people have been heading there, unavoidably, for months; others made a bad choice just a few days ago.

The accumulation of personal property allowed people to make more and more individualistic choices about their lives, and those choices unavoidably diminished group efforts toward a common good.

Il mondo è un gomitolo di strade e seguendole trovi tutto: vita e morte, miseria e felicità, lacrime e consolazione, avventura e amore.

The one who walks with the wise will become wise, but a companion of fools will suffer harm.

The competitive advantages the marketplace demands is someone more human, connected, and mature. Someone with passion and energy, capable of seeing things as they are and negotiating multiple priorities as she makes useful decisions without angst. Flexible in the face of change, resilient in the face of confusion. All of these attributes are choices, not talents, and all of them are available to you.

You get to keep making art as long as you are willing to make the choices that let you make your art.

The next time you catch yourself being average when you feel like quitting, realize that you have only two good choices: Quit or be exceptional. Average is for losers.

There are "only two choices" in life: being criticized or "being ignored".

You are not your work. Your work is a series of choices made with generous intent to cause something to happen. We can always learn to make better choices.