Quotes About Choices

People make just as many mistakes when the stakes go up, maybe more.

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

I think Canadians have always been interested in the choices Americans make because the choices you make inevitably impact upon us... and how we make sure that we get that balance right between continuing to have a good relationship and standing for the things we believe in is what we expect of ourselves.

To have an opportunity to get in front of a camera every single day is just priceless because it gets you closer and closer to being less self-consciousness in front of it and really being human and really making choices and standing by them.

There are things I cannot do, costumes I cannot wear. When I have taken stands on things, it is because I have thought carefully about them.

How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?

Honorable men don't settle for lives of regret.

There's never been a lack of men willing to die bravely. The trouble is to find a few able to live sensibly.

The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.

A man can spend his whole existence never learning the simple lesson that he has only one life and that if he fails to do what he wants with it, nobody else really cares.

Life can make you do many things, even kiss a man with a runny nose.

Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny.

Most men had rather say a smart thing than do a good one. John P. Kotter, Leading Change.

What makes a man a man? It's the choices he makes. Not how he starts things but how he finishes them.

The school-room sends men to the Legislature, to the bench, and the executive office. The bar-room sends them to the scaffold and hell.

Men are like parking spaces: all the good ones are taken, and the available ones are handicapped.

I make bad choices. I've got such dodgy tastes in men.

I have very little faith that I'll ever find someone. I've had some bad luck and I've made some bad choices - not in men, but in how I've chosen to deal with relationships.

Every man's road in life is marked by the grave of his personal likings.

Only the man who has known freedom Can define his prison.

Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead," said Scrooge. "But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change.

So many men, so many opinions; every one his own way.

Life is one big judgment call. (And a neverending series of little ones.)

Might have, could have, may have, should have—the haves and have nots reduced to pointless possibilities.