Quotes About Choice

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

You can be smart and happy or stupid and miserable. . . it's your choice

We lose the fear of making decisions, great and small; as we realize that should our choice prove wrong we can, if we will, learn from the experience.

It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

We have to choose between what is right, and what is easy.

You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.

Heaven on Earth is a choice you must make, not a place you must find.

We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it's a continuing choice.

Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.

Your capacity to say "No" determines your capacity to say "Yes" to greater things.

One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, "Is it half full or half empty?" So I drank the water. No more problem.

I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.

There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.

Direction, not intention determines your destination.

Pain is inevitable, but misery is optional. We cannot avoid pain, but we can avoid joy.

Fashion is what you're offered four times a year by designers. And style is what you choose.

What's the world's greatest lie?... It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate.

I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralyzed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something - a great deal - to do with how we live our lives.

The funny thing about stop signs is that they're also start signs.

I'm surrounded by nothing but great people. I've been blessed with that, so really, I've got no choice but to be an all-around good person.

A bird in the hand is a certainty, but a bird in the bush may sing.

I don't know whether I prefer Astroturf to grass. I never smoked Astroturf.

The world is your oyster. It's up to you to find the pearls.

A dead end street is a good place to turn around.