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Quotes About Choices

Well - think about this. What if all your actions and choices, good or bad, made no difference to God? What if the pattern is pre-set? No no - hang on - this is a question worth struggling with. What if our badness and mistakes are the very thing that set our fate and bring us round to good? What if, for some of us, we can't get there any other way?
~ Donna Tartt
What if all your actions and choices, good or bad, make no difference to God? What if the pattern is pre-set? No no—hang on—this is a question worth struggling with. What if our badness and mistakes are the very thing that set our fate and bring us round to good? What if, for some of us, we can't get there any other way?
~ Donna Tartt
Well—think about this. What if all your actions and choices, good or bad, make no difference to God? What if the pattern is pre-set? No no—hang on—this is a question worth struggling with. What if our badness and mistakes are the very thing that set our fate and bring us round to good? What if, for some of us, we can't get there any other way?
~ Donna Tartt
You're the total of all the choices you've made in your life, Jack. This is what you have because this is what you chose.
~ J.A. Konrath
What young men will be, in all probability depends on what they are now, and they seem to forget this. Youth is the planting time of full age, the molding season in the little space of human life, the turning point in the history of man's mind.
~ J.C. Ryle
The answer? There is no answer. Only choices which can have many outcomes, some expected, and some unforeseen. Perhaps that is the only wisdom there really is, young Mage: that our choices matter. As your choices matter, perhaps more than those of anyone else at this time.
~ Jack Campbell
When you consistently make better choices you create better habits. These better habits produce better character. When you have better character, you add more value to the world. When you become more valuable, you attract bigger and better opportunities. This allows you to make more of a contribution in your life. This in turn leads to bigger and better results.
~ Jack Canfield
THE RESULTS OF YOUR BAD HABITS USUALLY DON'T SHOW UP UNTIL MUCH LATER IN LIFE
~ Jack Canfield
Life doesn't just happen to you. It's all about choices and how you respond to every situation.
~ Jack Canfield
POWER IS THE FACULTY OR CAPACITY TO ACT, THE STRENGTH AND POTENCY TO ACCOMPLISH SOMETHING. IT IS THE VITAL ENERGY TO MAKE CHOICES AND DECISIONS. IT ALSO INCLUDES THE CAPACITY TO OVERCOME DEEPLY EMBEDDED HABITS AND TO CULTIVATE HIGHER, MORE EFFECTIVE ONES." —Stephen R. Covey
~ Jack Canfield
Physically, spiritually, emotionally, and mentally, I am making decisions and choices that manifest sobriety every day in my life, and doing so allows me to live the life that I have always dreamed of—one of excitement, purpose, and giving back.
~ Jack Canfield
Remember, if you believe a lie long enough it will become truth to you. As it becomes your reality, you are faced with life choices that can lead you into a lifestyle of sin and disobedience. Sin left unrepented creates a place of darkness in your life, in your mind, and, worst of all, finds its place into your heart, causing you to respond to your pain by either hurting others or refusing to allow others access to your heart.
~ Jack Frost
The jury may be out over the long-term consequences, but it seems prudent to us to avoid C-sections if you have a choice.
~ Jack Gilbert
Before producers decided to keep things simple and call the show Friends, they toyed with the idea of Friends Like Us (ok, that's not too bad), Six of One (what?), Across the Hall (logical I guess), Insomnia Café (no, just no) and Once Upon a Time in the West Village
~ Jack Goldstein
Probably millions of Americans got up this morning with a cup of coffee, a cigarette and a donut. No wonder they are sick and fouled up.
~ Jack LaLanne
Regret piles up around us like books we have never read.
~ Unknown
A man is a fool to live in hopes of a better tomorrow. I have a thousand, better ways today to spend what time remains ahead of me, and I have brighter, lighter and more pleasant places in which to spend it.
~ Unknown
You don't get to do over parts or go back and change your path. Your life is decided by your character and the decisions you make in the moment.
~ Jackie Chan
There is nothing wrong in giving those you love more choices," she added. "It is only wrong if you try to blackmail or coax them into making the choice you prefer.
~ Jackie French
Life, he told me, was like a fork of lightning. He could see exactly where one decision violently parted company with another and a new future flared up before him.
~ Jackie Kay
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they are not on your road does not mean they have gotten lost.
~ Jackson Browne
I do not know if these hands will become Malcolm's—raised and fisted or Martin's—open and asking or James's—curled around a pen. I
~ Jacqueline Woodson
Here she was, in all of her deep unknowing knowing that this was the place, this was the time to keep me here by letting me know how easy it would have been to stay fifteen. That the people I loved almost as much as I loved my own father would have determined me optional. Two words spoken early enough, I'm pregnant
~ Jacqueline Woodson
You'll never regret eating blueberries or working up a sweat.
~ Jacquelyn Mitchard