Quotes About Choice

No one was responsible for the great Wall Street crash. No one engineered the speculation that preceded it. Both were the product of free choice and decision of hundreds of thousands of individuals.

Joking decides great things, Stronger and better oft than earnest can.

Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.

Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards.

I didn't actually figure out how to get guidance, so I just decided to go to school at University of Southern California because they sent me a glossy brochure.

When blackened night falls, darkness exists if one chooses to rely on sight as thy only guide.

Everyone is the architect of their own happiness

So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?

Happiness is not a destination or an experience. It's a decision.

Happiness is your choice to make. How happy or how miserable do you want to be?

A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.

God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.

If you come to a fork in the road, take it.

You can make yourself happy or miserable - it's the same amount of effort.

We tend to Seek Happiness when Happiness is actually a Choice

I believe the world is as we choose to view it. Simple as that. Our happiness is, in the end, up to us, and to no one else.

You have to take an active role in making yourself happy. That's why I say happiness is a choice. Because you have to choose it.

Whenever you notice your thoughts detour into attack mode, say out loud or to yourself: Happiness is a choice I make.

There is no shame in preferring happiness.

The door to happiness opens outward.

If you're not happy, you can become happy. Happiness is a choice.

Happiness is a choice. You grieve, you stomp your feet, you pick yourself up and choose to be happy.

You must be the best judge of your own happiness.