Quotes About Choices

You can do anything, but not everything. - David Allen

Their freedom to make choices means they are free to make wrong ones." -Luke Skywalker

money and he couldn't refuse. I couldn't believe he put earning cash, which he definitely didn't need, above being at the birth of his son. Our baby hadn't

People always ask me, 'What is it that you regret?' And I say, 'nothing, because I could not buy what I've learned.' And I apply those things to my life I learn. And hopefully, hopefully it helps me to be a better human in the future and make better choices.

our entire lives aren't planned out for us—just some things. Specific events along the way, crossroads we're meant to come to. Tests, maybe, to measure our progress. But we always have choices, and those choices can send us along an unplanned path.

Yesterday is a canceled check tomorrow is a promissory note today is the only cash you have -- so spend it wisely.

Do what you have to do, I guess. But sooner or later you're going to run out of mirrors to shoot at. Then what will you do?

It seems to me that you have two options: hide the fact that anything happened, or hide the fact that you had anything to do with it.

Honor is served only by combat that elevates the spirit. Correct choices—of whom we fight, and why, and how we live—are paving stones. Taken together, they can make a road we travel to reach honor.

It wasn't so much that I thought there was nowhere to go, in this huge city; but with so many places to go, where were you supposed to begin?

When a writer has chosen a topic, he or she has really chosen numerous topics.

Wild oats make a mighty poor breakfast.

We all seek stability," he quoted Langer as saying. "We want to hold things still, thinking that if we do, we can control them. But since everything is always changing, that doesn't work. Actually, it causes you to lose control." Yet if you understand reading as a mindful person, "uncertainty creates freedom to discover meaning. If there are meaningful choices, there is uncertainty

I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear - it's active disengagement.

Each lifetime had been different, as each choice is always different, unpredictable in its outcome or effect. Yet those choices had to be made, Jeff thought. He'd learned to accept the potential losses, in the hope that they would be outweighed by the gains. The only certain failure, he knew, and the most grievous, would be never to risk at all.

We all make choices, but in the end, our choices make us.

The nicest thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.

Strive to be kind to each other's whirlwind girl. Strive to remember that each one of us is precious and necessary, that drama and wars put out our light. Strive to remember that this is our one, short life, and the choices we make will determine what comes of it.

There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education.

Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.

What would six dollars and fifty cents buy? Not a tape deck for Marla. Maybe a Christmas flower arrangement special for Mom. But she loved roses. He'd buy her one long-stemmed rose and get Dad a cactus plant. Something with prickers that you better not touch should suit him.

Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance.

After a bad or disrupting occurrence in your life, Fredrickson's research shows, what you choose to focus on exerts significant leverage on your attitude going forward. These simple choices can provide a "reset button" to your emotions.

but it was one of those all-too-common moments in New York when one is faced with a damnable set of options.