Quotes About Choices

Many people use their youth to make their old age miserable

Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory or one of unthinkable horror.

You only live once, but if you live right, once is enough.

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the diciplines or continue the errors.

It is dangerous to asume that people can be trusted to behave in a rational way (...) What the probers are looking for, of course, are the "whys" of our behavior, so that they can more effectively manipulate our habits and choices in their favor.

Fear can make all of us do the wrong things sometimes.

Flaws like roadmaos I see. They are detours to you that I don't take.

Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.

I now know the same secret that Michelle does: in order to have it all we can't do it all.

Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.

If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.

When we say yes to too many other things, we are actually saying no to God. Only God can bring the rest and satisfaction our souls crave.

Our decisions define our lives. We are the people we choose to be in the ways that most matter. Choose wisely. You will live with the choices you make. The choices you make define your character. And your character defines how you feel about yourself. That image of you is projected in hundreds of ways to others.

The only real asset you have is your time. The hours of your life.

We forget that even worse choices than those have confronted us in the past—like sending billions of dollars of aid to Joseph Stalin to stop Adolf Hitler, just a few years after the former had slaughtered or starved to death twenty million Soviets, invaded hapless Finland, carved up Poland with Hitler, and sent strategic materials daily to the Third Reich as it firebombed London.

In addition, there are millions of people in our world who are fortunate to have the availability of almost any food they like. I cannot find any reason for those people to continue consuming survival food (bread, sugar, meat, milk, and salt).

Success in America comes in over a million flavors... all you have you have to do is try one.

Wizard's Second Rule The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.

If I had to live again I would do exactly the same thing. Of course I have regrets, but if you are 60 years old and you have no regrets then you haven't lived.

I have never once regretted missing a business opportunity so that I could be with my children and grandchildren.

Yes, I have a lot of business interests. But I don't work for just anyone, and I choose the companies very carefully.

What's important for me is to give my daughters a well-rounded education and a mixture of people in their lives. They'll make their own choices. I think they would be good in show business.

Because we are a globally connected village, we need to remember that our choices are not isolated. They have a powerful ripple effect, and that ripple is global.

When kids my age were picking up toy cars, I used to buy toy guns.