Quotes About Choice

Forgiveness is not a feeling; it is a commitment. It is a choice to show mercy, not to hold the offence up against the offender. Forgiveness is an expression of love.

"The cat is there when you call her – if she doesn't have something better to do."

"Cats choose us; we don't own them."

There are so many people to fall in love with but I chose to fall for you. That was the biggest mistake of my life, but I know that like all difficult things come to an end, even this will and you will return back someday.

What's the difference between the love of your life, and your soulmate? One is a choice and one is not.

We cannot stop the winter or the summer from coming. We cannot stop the spring or the fall or make them other than they are. They are gifts from the universe that we cannot refuse. But we can choose what we will contribute to life when each arrives.

It's not just about being better. It's about being different. You need to give people a reason to choose your business.

Many people out there don't have a choice in choosing their friends and the people they're being manipulated by. Thank God, I have that choice. I can use my judgment and choose.

I thank God I'm in a position where I can pick and choose – there are some roles I don't play.

You won't believe it, but my grandfather named me. And the choices were between Sparkle, Sprinkle and Twinkle. So, thank God, they chose Twinkle.

True love – that is, deep, abiding love that is impervious to emotional whims or fancy – is a choice. It's a constant commitment to a person regardless of the present circumstances.

We must never forget that it is through our actions, words, and thoughts that we have a choice.

We are free to choose our actions, . . . but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions.

There is only one basic human right: the right to do as you please, without causing others harm. With it comes our only basic human duty: the duty to accept the consequences of our actions.

Consciousness is observing your thoughts and actions so that you can live from true choice in the present moment rather than being run by programming from the past.

In order not to annul our free will, I judge it true that Fortune may be mistress of one half our actions but then even she leaves the other half, or almost, under our control.

Everybody has a personal decision to make but hopefully my actions speak louder than words.

The future is very much in our hands--in our actions.

Beyond all our actions stands the larger shadow: How are we to choose between what we have been taught to think right and something else which manifestly succeeds?

All of our actions have in their doing the seed of their undoing.

"What we control," Juliette said, "is our actions once fate puts us there."

We are the authors of our own fate-we write it each day with every one of our actions.

Our actions and experiences will direct us. In other words, we will be guided by the inherent emptiness of the things we choose to interact with.

Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.