Quotes About Choices

with thousands it's hard to be quite sinless, but to make millions is easy. A millionaire has no need to resort to crooked ways. Just go on and take the straight road, take all that lies before you! No one else will pick it up.

Desire by itself is not wrong. It is life itself, the urge to grow in knowledge and experience. It is the choices you make that are wrong. To imagine that some little thing - food, sex, power, fame - will make you happy is to deceive yourself. Only something as vast and deep as your real self can make you truly and lastingly happy.

Everyone has their own path. The choices they've made. How any two people end up in the same place at the same time is a mystery. You get on an elevator with a dozen strangers. You ride a bus, wait in line for the bathroom. It happens every day. To try to predict the places we'll go and the people we'll meet would be pointless.

Everyone has their path. The choices they've made. How any two people end up in the same place at the same time is a mystery. You get on an elevator with a dozen strangers. You ride a bus, wait in line for the bathroom. It happens every day. To try to predict the places we'll go and the people we'll meet would be pointless.

Life is a series of decisions and reactions. It is the things you do and the things that are done to you. And then it's over.

Everyone has their path. The choices they've made. How any two people end up in the same place at the same time is a mystery. You

The things Sarah called problems were wholly elective eg no first class seats, a leaking sailboat

The whole purpose of places like Starbucks is for people with no decision-making ability whatsoever to make six decisions just to buy one cup of coffee. Short, tall, light, dark, caf, decaf, low-fat, non-fat, etc. So people who don't know what the hell they're doing or who on earth they are can, for only $2.95, get not just a cup of coffee but an absolutely defining sense of self: Tall. Decaf. Cappuccino." - Joe Fox

A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences.

A person doesn't die from this or that disease. He dies from his whole life.

Virtue is what happens when wise and courageous choices have become second nature

Tehlikeli oyunlar oynanm??t?r. ?nsan?n içinde ifade edilmez bir eksiklik duygusu kal?r. Her ?ey ba?ka türlü olabilirdi sanki. Bütün bu oyunlar bu kadar da kötü oynanmayabilirdi.

no one had been able to give him a reason why people who had excellent reasons to suppose they would destroy themselves if they did a certain thing chose to do that thing anyway.

Better to stay alive," I said. "At least while there's a chance to get free." I thought of the sleeping pills in my bag and wondered just how great a hypocrite I was. It was so easy to advise other people to live with their pain.

A man's free to do what he wants with his life, until he falls foul of the banks.

What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?

One if the hardest things in life to learn are which bridges to cross and which bridges to burn.

Bad habits: easy to develop and hard to live with. Good habits: hard to develop and easy to live with.

You cannot live your dreams and fears simultaneously. One must die.

Excellence results from the accumulation of proper choices compounded over time.

Modern life assaults us with an infinite range of things we could do, we would love to do, or some people tell us we should do. But we are not God and we are neither infinite nor eternal. We are quite simply finite. We have only so many years, so much energy, so many gray cells, and so many bank notes in our wallets. 'Life is too short to...' eventually shortens to 'life is too short.

Life is really simple; we ourselves create the circumstances that complicate it.

There's always something that you sacrifice with each of your choices. When you choose you and your dreams, and you commit to them no matter what, you sacrifice the excuses, the stories, the old limiting beliefs; providing a rich ground of fertile soil for the seeds of your dreams to germinate.

So little time and so little to do.