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Quotes About Choices

I was not 15 anymore, and choices no longer had that same clear, bright edge to them.
~ Geraldine Brooks
Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal likings.
~ Alexander Smith
A useless life is an early death.
~ Goethe
It is a man's proper business to seek happiness and avoid misery.
~ John Locke
Most of us spend our lives as if we had another one in the bank.
~ Ben Irwin
It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.
~ Evangeline Cory Booth
The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Where will you be a few years down the line? Will it be everything you dreamed of? We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.
~ Gloria Estefan
Men do with opportunities as children do at the seashore; they fill their little hands with sand, and then let the grains fall through, one by one, till all are gone.
~ T. Jones
Nature is what you may do. There is much you may not do.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying.
~ Christian Furchtegott Gellert
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life.
~ Aristotle
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
~ Shirley Lord
Few are they who have never had a chance to achieve happiness-and fewer those who have taken that chance.
~ Andre Maurois
Nobody can honestly think of himself as a strong character because, however successful he may be in overcoming them, he is necessarily aware of the doubts and temptations that accompany every important choice.
~ W. H. Auden
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.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
I am responsible for my own well-being, my own happiness. The choices and decisions I make regarding my life directly influence the quality of my days.
~ Kathleen Tierney Andrus
It is not alone what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.
~ Moliere
Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by day, in all the thousand small, uncaring ways.
~ Stephen Vincent Benet
Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.
~ Don Marquis
What maintains one vice would bring up two children.
~ Benjamin Franklin
The only question with wealth is what you do with it.
~ John D. Rockefeller
Addiction is giving up everything for one thing. Recovery is giving up one thing for everything.
~ Author Unknown
There are so goddamn many ways to be a fool a man can't expect to avoid them all.
~ Ivan Doig
Zar se i onom koji se nalazi ve? nad ponorom samoubistva ?esto ne otvaraju mogu?nosti i neo?ekivani putevi daljeg života?
~ Ivo Andri?