Choice Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“People took what they wanted, they clutched at coincidences, the few there were, and made a life from them. . . . Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains”
– Paolo Giordano

“There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing the”
– Denis Waitley

“She wasn’t afraid of difficulties; what frightened her was being forced to choose one particular path. Choosing a path meant having to miss out on others. She had a whole life to live and she was always thinking that, in future, she might regret the choices she made now. ‘I’m afraid of committing myself,’ she thought to herself. She wanted to follow all possible paths and so ended up following none. Even in that most important area of her life, love, she had failed to commit herself. After her first romantic disappointment, she had never again given herself entirely. She feared pain, loss and separation. These things were inevitable on the path to love, and the only way of avoiding them was by deciding not to take that path at all. In order not to suffer, you had to renounce love. It was like putting out your own eyes in order not to see the bad things in life”
– Paulo Coelho

“But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on”
– Libba Bray

“We are free to choose our paths, but we can’t choose the consequences that come with them”
– Sean Covey

“The right choice is hardly ever the easy choice”
– Rick Riordan

“Look,” he said, “the point is there’s no way to be a hundred percent sure about anyone or anything. So you’re left with a choice. Either hope for the best, or just expect the worst.” If you expect the worst, you’re never disappointed,” I pointed out. Yeah, but who lives like that”
– Sarah Dessen

“All my life they had made choices for me, and I had resented it. Now the choice was mine, and once it was made, I would have no right to blame anyone else for the consequences. Loss of that privilege, to blame others, unexpectedly stung”
– Megan Whalen Turner

“I can learn to live with guilt. I don’t care about being good”
– Holly Black

“If you decide to just go with the flow, you’ll end up where the flow goes, which is usually downhill, often leading to a big pile of sludge and a life of unhappiness. You’ll end up doing what everyone else is doing”
– Sean Covey

“Keep in mind, Eragon, that no one thinks himself a villain, and few make decisions they think are wrong. A person may dislike his choice, but he will stand by it because, even in the worst circumstances, he believes that it was the best option available to him at the time”
– Christopher Paolini

“At the end of the day, the questions we ask of ourselves determine the type of people that we will become”
– Leo Babauta

“Sometimes good choices are really bad ones, wrapped up in so much fear you can’t even see straight”
– Deb Caletti

“Magic gives you a lot of choices,” Granddad says. “Most of them are bad”
– Holly Black

“Identity was partly heritage, partly upbringing, but mostly the choices you make in life. ~ Bra”
– Patricia Briggs

“But no one can predict of a certainty what will happen. And none of it will change how I intend to spend the rest of my life. I will live it on my terms. And you… you can have all of me or nothing. I won’t be an invalid any longer. Not even if it means losing you”
– Lisa Kleypas

“Sometimes it doesn’t matter too much what choice you make, as long as you make it quick and stick to it”
– Joe Abercrombie

“You can’t control what others think. The only thing you can control is yourself. Some people will look down on you for your choices in life, no matter what they are. You can’t do anything about that. The only thing you can do is decide how to live your own life. And to hell with everybody else”
– Marie Sexton

“Choices are funny things-ask a native tribe that’s eaten grubs and roots forever if they’re unhappy, and they’ll shrug. But give them filet mignon and truffle sauce and then ask them to go back to living off the land, and they will always be thinking of that gourmet meal. If you don’t know there’s an alternative, you can’t miss it”
– Jodi Picoult

“Choices will continually be necessary and — let us not forget — possible. Obedience to God is always possible. It is a deadly error to fall into the notion that when feelings are extremely strong we can do nothing but act on them”
– Elisabeth Elliot

“The difference between a non-suicide and an ex-suicide leaving the house for work, at eight o’clock on an ordinary morning: The non-suicide is a little traveling suck of care, sucking care with him from the past and being sucked toward care in the future. His breath is high in his chest. The ex-suicide opens his front door, sits down on the steps, and laughs. Since he has the option of being dead, he has nothing to lose by being alive. It is good to be alive. He goes to work because he doesn’t have to”
– Walker Percy

“The best way to avoid responsibility is to say, ‘I’ve got responsibilities”
– Richard Bach

“Have you ever been going somewhere with a crowd and you’re certain it’s the wrong road and you tell them, but they won’t listen, so you just have to plod along in what you know is the wrong direction till somebody more important gets the same idea”
– James Hilton

“Not even I can see all ends, but I have been in this world long enough to know that a choice is not choice and breeds slow ills, even were it done for the highest reasons”
– Alison Croggon

“In my dream I drove an RV off a cliff, because rather than hit the brakes or steer to safety, I was more concerned with either changing the radio station or turning the volume all the way down. They were playing Lady Gaga.”
– Jarod Kintz

“I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves”
– Steve Maraboli

“Whatever you decide, don’t let it be because you don’t think you have a choice”
– Hannah Harrington

“When faced with two equally tough choices, most people choose the third choice: to not choose.”
– Jarod Kintz

“We all make choices, but in the end our choices make us”
– Ken Levine

“What is right is often forgotten by what is convenient”
– Bodie Thoene

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