Quotes About Choice

When Henry Ford said, "The customer can have a car in any color as long as it's black," he was not joking.

Travel in car, because you can stop. Air travel any more is a nightmare. I think it's the same for everyone. If I have a choice to stand in line to get x-rayed, or see scenery, I'll take scenery.

Take a chance and you may lose. Take not a chance and you have lost already.

Cause you know, life is what we make it and a chance is like a picture, it'd be nice if you just take it.

And you let go of your chance.

So, knowing what you know now, if you had the chance to go back to, say, '68, '70, would you do things differently?

Take the first chance that you get, because you may never get another one.

No one gives you a chance. You have to take chances.

Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.

I've never stayed awake at night over a chance I took that failed, but I've stayed awake over chances I didn't take.

We're deciding the fate of the multiverse with a flip of a coin. Heads or tails, doc. If that isn't a game, I don't know what is.

Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.

God casts the die, not the dice.

As Bill Clinton said so eloquently at the convention, during Vietnam there was a chance to serve; there was a chance not to serve.

Every human interaction offers you the chance to make things better or to make things worse.

The person who takes no chances generally has to take whatever is left when others are through choosing.

We may doubt that we're up to being a warrior-in-training. But we can ask ourselves this question: "Do I prefer to grow up and relate to life directly, or do I choose to live and die in fear?

Attention to the present moment. We make the choice, moment by moment, to be fully here. Attending to our present-moment mind and body is a way of being tender toward self, toward other, and toward the world. This quality of attention is inherent in our ability to love.

Native American grandfather was speaking to his grandson about violence and cruelty in the world and how it comes about. He said it was as if two wolves were fighting in his heart. One wolf was vengeful and angry, and the other wolf was understanding and kind. The young man asked his grandfather which wolf would win the fight in his heart. And the grandfather answered, "The one that wins will be the one I choose to feed.

Nobody else can really begin to sort out for you what do you accept and what to reject in terms of what wakes you up and what makes you fall asleep. No one else can really sort out for you what do you accept - what opens up your world – and what to reject – but seems to keep you going round and round in some kind of repetitive misery.

It's up to you how the law of karma all works out.

Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions.

Opportunity, after all, is only another word for temptation.

When they married he wouldn't be able to go on where he was. On the other hand, if she wouldn't have him, he didn't see that he would be able to go on at all.