Quotes About Choices

Feelings are much like waves, we can't stop them from coming but we can choose which one to surf.

How strange to use "You only live once" as an excuse to throw it away.

I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on.

Video games ruined my life. (Good thing I have two more.)

The glow of good health can be yours for the price of hard work, wise choices, and respect for your body.

...the historian must serve two masters, the past and the present. And while his obligation to the past, his complete, unassailable fidelity to it, must always claim his first loyalty, he must accept the fact that the choices he makes as a historian are not of consequence to him alone, but will affect the moral sense, perhaps the wisdom of his generation.

Later in life situations and responsibilities force people to compromise. But to compromise now . . . it's like quitting before you start.

King, Gandhi, and Kepler become great because they make choices full of moral courage.

Man is made or unmade by himself; in the armoury of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself;

A man does not come to the almshouse or the jail by the tyranny of fate or circumstance, but by the pathway of grovelling thoughts and base desires.

What advice would you give me in terms of how I value this?

The only thing you have control over is your mindset, your habits, and the choices you make internally about how you're going to deal with a situation.

Bonuses went up. And a rich person puts the extra dollar in the bank while a poor person pays the rent. So

Many studies show that the key to contentment and confidence is three things: *?Growing competence in a pursuit you love *?Strengthening every day the relationships around you *?Increasing your freedom of choices Quote from the pope: "If we start without confidence, already we have lost half the battle and we bury our talents.

People do what they want until they are injured like a kid putting his fingers on the stove.

I think the country has to find out what it means by freedom. Freedom is a very dangerous thing. Anything else is disastrous. But freedom is dangerous. You've got to make choices. You've got to make very dangerous choices. You've got to be taught that your life is in your hands.

If you spend your life keeping your options open, that's exactly what you'll do . . . spend your life keeping your options open.

Setting priorities requires making tough choices as to what is really important. One reason so many people have such a difficult time getting focused is that they also have a difficult time making decisions: they balk at choosing which items will be left off their priority list.

life was simple, we were born and we were going to die. There was nothing for us before we were born, and there would be nothing for us after we died. While we were here we had choices. While we were alive we had choices. We could choose to be and do whatever we wanted.

The options appear to be especially narrow for males who carry a profound sadness—and accompanying rage—in a culture that teaches boys that "it is better to be mad than to be sad." Sometimes this leads to horrific choices.

Making good choices is a matter of life and death when you grow up in environments predisposed to violence, crime, and social failure, environments loaded with risk factors and often barren of developmental resources, where what you and your parents bring to the equation is crucial in an unforgiving way.

The biggest barrier to dealing with climate change is us: our own attachment to habits that are hard to shift, and our great ability to park or ignore uncomfortable choices.

We can all be self-destructive. I make terrible choices all the time. It's uncomfortable to admit that you did a thing that was selfish and that you knew would hurt someone else.

If one looks at my choices, all of them have been unconventional. There's not a single song-and-dance or romantic film.