Choice Quotes And Sayings

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“People who are too optimistic seem annoying. This is an unfortunate misinterpretation of what an optimist really is. An optimist is neither naive, nor blind to the facts, nor in denial of grim reality. An optimist believes in the optimal usage of all options available, no matter how limited. As such, an optimist always sees the big picture. How else to keep track of all that’s out there? An optimist is simply a proactive realist. An idealist focuses only on the best aspects of all things (sometimes in detriment to reality); an optimist strives to find an effective solution. A pessimist sees limited or no choices in dark times; an optimist makes choices. When bobbing for apples, an idealist endlessly reaches for the best apple, a pessimist settles for the first one within reach, while an optimist drains the barrel, fishes out all the apples and makes pie. Annoying? Yes. But, oh-so tasty”
– Vera Nazarian

“Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional”
– Roger Crawford

“Life is not a matter of chance…it is a matter of choice”
– Ka

“No one has free will until they are an adult, and by then the choices that were made for them, have already set them on a course that gives limited freedom in the choices to be made”
– J.D. Stroube

“If you are faced with a mountain, you have several options. You can climb it and cross to the other side. You can go around it. You can dig under it. You can fly over it. You can blow it up. You can ignore it and pretend it’s not there. You can turn around and go back the way you came. Or you can stay on the mountain and make it your home”
– Vera Nazarian

“You cannot continue on the same path and arrive at a different destination. Make the choice to have your actions reflect your goals”
– Steve Maraboli

“Everybody’s got the potential for great good and great wrong in them, but it’s the choices we make that define who we really are”
– Charles de Lint

“I want you to take note, Commander, that turning in my badge would be like cutting off my arm. But if it comes down to a choice between the job and my marriage, then I lose the arm”
– J.D. Robb

“You can enjoy anything if you make up your mind to”
– Joyce Meyer

“?Today is a new day. It’s a day you have never seen before and will never see again. Stop telling yourself the ‘same crap, different day’ lie! How many days has that lie stolen from you? Seize the wonder and uniqueness of today! Recognize that throughout this beautiful day, you have an incredible amount of opportunities to move your life into the direction you want it to go”
– Steve Maraboli

“Happiness is a state of mind, a choice, a way of living; it is not something to be achieved, it is something to be experienced”
– Steve Maraboli

“Not to decide is to decide”
– Harvey Cox

“I’ve heard fate talked of. It’s not a word I use. I think we make our own choices. I think how we live our lives is our own doing, and we cannot fully hope on dreams and stars. But dreams and stars can guide us, perhaps. And the heart‘s voice is a strong one. Always is. Your heart’s voice is your true voice. It is easy to ignore it, for sometimes it says what we’d rather it did not – and it is so hard to risk the things we have. But what life are we living, if we don’t live by our hearts? Not a true one. And the person living it is not the true you”
– Susan Fletcher

“We are mathematical equations where your life is the sum of all choices you’ve made until now. The good news is you can change the equation so that you start making a difference in your life”
– Steve Maraboli

“It’s coming, a battle between Starclan and The Dark Forest and every warrior will be called upon to fight”
– Erin Hunter

“There are times in my life when I have been medicine for some while poison for others. I used to think I was a victim of my story until I realized the truth that I am the creator of my story. I choose what type of person I will be and what type of impact I will leave on others. I will never choose the destructive path of self and outward victimization again”
– Steve Maraboli

“I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go into exile. Does any man then hinder me from going with smiles and cheerfulness and contentment”
– Epictetus

“{Calpurnia)”My mother…she’s desperate for a daughter she can dress like a porcelain doll. Sadly, I shall never be such a child. How I long for my sister to come out and distract the countess from my person.” He joined her on the bench, asking, “How old is your sister?” “Eight,” she said, mournfully. “Ah. Not ideal.” “An understatement.” She looked up at the star-filled sky. “No, I shall be long on the shelf by the time she makes her debut.” “What makes you so certain you’re shelf-bound?” She cast him a sidelong glance. “While I appreciate your chivalry, my lord, your feigned ignorance insults us both.” When he failed to reply, she stared down at her hands, and replied, “My choices are rather limited.” “How so?” “I seem able to have my pick of the impoverished, the aged, and the deadly dull”
– Sarah MacLean

“If I do not know the will of my Father, and what He requires of me in a certain transaction, if I ask Him to give me wisdom concerning any requirement in my life, or in regard to my own course, or that of my friends, my family, my children, or those that I preside over, and get no answer from Him, and then do the very best that my judgement will teach me, He is bound to own and honor that transaction, and He will do so to all intents and purposes”
– Brigham Young

“The choice of life is not between fame and fortune, nor wealth and poverty, but between good and evil”
– Boyd K. Packer

“It is a painful thing to say to oneself: by choosing one road I am turning my back on a thousand others. Everything is interesting; everything might be useful; everything attracts and charms a noble mind; but death is before us; mind and matter make their demands; willy-nilly we must submit and rest content as to things that time and wisdom deny us, with a glance of sympathy which is another act of our homage to the truth”
– Antonin Sertillanges

“Freedom is not a license to act but a license to exercise free choices in any given situation”
– Vera Nazarian

“In History, stagnant waters, whether they be stagnant waters of custom or those of despotism, harbour no life; life is dependent on the ripples created by a few eccentric individuals. In homage to that life and vitality, the community has to brave certain perils and must countenance a measure of heresy. One must live dangerously if one wants to live at all”
– Herbert Read

“I thought of how proud he was when he took the marks- cutting the skin of his throat in a long slash and then packing it with ashes until keloid scars rose up. He called it his second smile”
– Holly Black

“Of course not. No one is chosen. Not ever. Not in the real world. You chose to climb out of your window and ride on a leopard. You chose to get a witch’s Spoon back, and to make friends with a wyvern. You chose to trade your shadow for a child’s life. You chose not to let the Marquess hurt your friend–you chose to smash her cages! You chose to face your own Death, not to balk at a great sea to cross and no ship to cross it in. And twice now you have chosen not to go home when you might have, if only you abandoned your friends. You are not the chosen one, September. Fairyland did not choose you–you chose yourself. You could have had a lovely holiday in Fairyland and never met the Marquess, never worried yourself with local politics, had a romp with a few brownies and gone home with enough memories for a lifetime’s worth of novels. But you didn’t. You chose. You chose it all. Just like you chose your path on the beach: to lose your heart is not a path for the faint and fainting”
– Catherynne M. Valente

“You can’t make yourself feel positive, but you can choose how to act, and if you choose right, it builds your confidence”
– Julien Smith, The Flinch

“Do you remember? Do you remember the world before the poison”
– Amy Reed

“August: You know, some things don’t matter that much…like the color of a house…But lifting a person’s heart–now that matters. The whole problem with people–” Lily: They don’t know what matters and what doesn’t… August:…They know what matters, but they don’t choose it…The hardest thing on earth is to choose what matters”
– Sue Monk Kidd

“Yes no yes no yes no? Red blue? Yes red, no blue? No red, yes no? In out, up down? Do don’t, can can’t? Choices sit on the shelf life New shoes in a shoe shop. If the in crowd are squeezing into a must-have shoe And the one pair left are too tiny for you Don’t feel compelled into choosing them If you’re really a size 9, buy that size. While everyone else Hobbles round with sore feet Your choices should feel comfortable Or they aren’t your choices at all. Why limp when you can sprint”
– David Baird

“By choosing healthy over skinny you are choosing self-love over self-judgment. You are beautiful”
– Steve Maraboli

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