Quotes about choosing
C.M. Stunich - Wanting You
Sometimes you don't get to choose your partner. Life chooses it for you.
Shannon L. Alder -
Do you want to be in your own story or on the outside writing about it? Everyone battles fear and uncertainty every day. However, the only failure in life is believing that your value relies on other people's approval or resources. The reality is this: When you are living your authentic self and not how people want you to act, then you are free to use the full spectrum of your creativity and gifts. People don't need resources to get out of any life situation. They need creativity to create resou
Shannon L. Alder - 300 Questions LDS Couples Should Ask Before Marriage
The most important quality in the man you decide to marry should be the ability to make you laugh. Beauty fades, careers end, money comes and goes, religions change, children grow up and move away, spouses get sick, struggles happen, family members die, senility sets in when your older, but the ability to make you giggle every day is the most precious gift God can give you to get through all of it.
Craig D. Lounsbrough -
Faith means I chose not to know, which is different than ignorance which refuses to know.
Catherynne M. Valente - The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two
But the trouble is, I do want to be surprised. I want to choose. I broke the heart of my fate so that I could choose. I never chose; I only saw a little girl who looked like me standing on a gear at the end of the world and laughing, and that's not choosing, not really. Wouldn't you rather I chose you? Wouldn't you rather I picked our future out of all the others anyone could have?
Craig D. Lounsbrough -
I'm in a hole because at some point I found a shovel and started digging. Maybe I should trade my shovels for ladders and start climbing.
Craig D. Lounsbrough -
I must never equate the degree of pain as evidencing the incorrectness of a decision, for if I do I will default on some of the most critical decisions I should have ever made.
Craig D. Lounsbrough -
In case you’re short on definitions, here’s one. Insanity: ‘Destroying the very things that sustain us.’ And if we’re so short-sighted so as to make such preposterous choices, then it’s not all that preposterous to believe that shortly our end will be in sight.
De philosopher DJ Kyos -
Choose to hustle now, to work hard now, to make all the sacrifice now. So that you can enjoy your tomorrow. Whatever it is that you suppose to do now. If you don't do it now, it will affect you badly for the rest of your life.
Deepak Chopra -
When you make a choice, you change the future.
Kamand Kojouri -
Happiness is exercising the little freedom that we have by choosing things that create harmony in our lives.
Lauren Oliver - Requiem
They couldn’t have known that even this was a lie—that we never really choose, not entirely. We are always being pushed and squeezed down one road or another. We have no choice but to step forward, and then step forward again, and then step forward again; suddenly we find ourselves on a road we haven’t chosen at all.But maybe happiness isn’t in the choosing. Maybe it’s in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherever we have ended up is where we intended to be all along.
Craig D. Lounsbrough -
Ethics are the things that say, 'Don’t stick your finger in the socket.' The world says, 'It’s okay because we’ve shut off the electricity.' And at the point that we’ve chosen to listen to the world and ignore our ethics, we say, 'I’m having a really hard time getting back up.
Craig D. Lounsbrough -
I can arrogantly brag that the doors I choose in life open wide and grant me unobstructed passage. But the widest doors tend to lead to the worst places.
Kamand Kojouri -
What you choose also chooses you.
Craig D. Lounsbrough -
What rubs off on me is hard to rub off. So, I’d better figure out what I rubbing up against.
Ryan Lilly -
Life is a web of intersections and choices. Your 1st choice is to recognize an intersection. Your 2nd choice is to be grateful for it.
Aberjhani - Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.
The job facing American voters… in the days and years to come is to determine which hearts, minds and souls command those qualities best suited to unify a country rather than further divide it, to heal the wounds of a nation as opposed to aggravate its injuries, and to secure for the next generation a legacy of choices based on informed awareness rather than one of reactions based on unknowing fear.
Ljupka Cvetanova - The New Land
Walking through life, we spend most of our energy choosing the right shoes.
Marilyn Barnicke Belleghem -
I am choosing to flow with the current of life rather than lying in a tide pool experiencing the same things again and again.
Richelle E. Goodrich - Slaying Dragons
If you suffer lingering doubts; if the consolation you cling to is ‘it will probably be okay,’ then run the other way because what you’re contemplating is not a good choice.
Richelle E. Goodrich - Slaying Dragons
Pain defines moments in the lives of all human beings. The trial is not the endurance of pain but the choices we make regarding how to endure.
Steve Goodier -
Your power to choose can never be taken from you. It can be neglected and it can be ignored. But if used, it can make all the difference.
Paxton Hood -
Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter.
Craig D. Lounsbrough -
Choosing a life of safety is safely choosing something other than life.
Craig D. Lounsbrough -
Sadly, it seems that I have the proclivity to create plenty of devils, but most of the time I don’t even go looking for angels.
J.R. Rim - Better to be able to love than to be loveable
It's not about making the right choice. It's about making a choice and making it right.
Bryant McGill - Voice of Reason
You are creating through your choices, even now. Choose wisely.
Ulysses Brave - The Wit and Wisdom of Cats and Kittens
Life often presents you with difficult choices. But who made up the rules? Why choose at all?
Rick Riordan - The Hidden Oracle
That's the nice thing about being human. We only have one life, but we can choose what kind of story it's going to be.
Craig D. Lounsbrough -
Nearly everyday life leans over and says, ‘Come on down!’ But standing at the bottom looking up, it’s finally dawned on me that it’s not these invitations that have dug this hole. Rather, it’s the fact that I accepted them.
Craig D. Lounsbrough -
My life is a series of invitations accepted and invitations rejected, and the place I now find myself is often a result of accepting the wrong invitations and rejecting the right ones.
Craig D. Lounsbrough -
To make a choice not to sacrifice is to decide that I am better off allowing a life to perish than release the resources I possess that might allow it to thrive. And because of choices such as these, the life that I am really allowing to perish is mine.
Richelle E. Goodrich - Slaying Dragons
There’s always another option.There’s always another one.It’s never only 'this' or 'that,'The moon or else the sun.Don’t sigh and choose the greaterOr lesser of two plights.But look to see the stars beyondFor options vast and bright.
Darren Shan - Slawter
You can’t save everyone. It’s not an option.
Richelle E. Goodrich - Slaying Dragons
It turns out the simplest choices have been far more important in the long run than I ever imagined.
John Ciardi - The Monster Den: or Look What Happened at My House — and to It
He had his choice, and he liked the worst.
Malti Bhojwani - Don't Think Of a Blue Ball
When we say ‘Yes’ to something we are always saying‘No’ to something else. So in that way, we never ‘don’t do’ anything. We are just doing something else.
Dianna Hardy - The Demon Bride
We have choice,” she insisted. “This is it. We don’t get to choose our choices, Gwain, we just get to make the ones we’re given...
David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest
But someone sometime let you forget how to choose, and what. Someone let your peoples forget it was the only thing of importance, choosing. . . How to choose any but a child's greedy choices if there is no loving-filled father to guide, inform, teach the person how to choose? How is there freedom to choose if one does not learn how to choose?
John Kenneth Galbraith -
Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
Michael Ben Zehabe - Song of Songs The Book for Daughters
Would you marry you? Be the right person before seeking the right person. Solomon's bride is carefully chosen for the good of his family, for the good of his kingdom.pg 9
Celia McMahon - Skye
And you shouldn't choose to care about someone. There shouldn't be a time and a place for it. Either you do or you don't. Don't try.” He looks off. “There can be falseness in trying to do something that should come naturally to people.
James A. Murphy - The Waves of Life Quotes and Daily Meditations
Seeking excellence means choosing to forge your own sword to cut through the limitations of your life...
De philosopher DJ Kyos -
Choose not to prove how wrong others are, but choose to show them on how to be right
Shannon L. Alder -
I think timing is better left up to God to decide then religious leaders. I once met a man that brought his wife flowers in the hospital. They held hands, kissed and were as affectionate as any cute couple could be. They were both in their eighties. I asked them how long they were married. I expected them to tell me fifty years or longer. To my surprise, they said only five years. He then began to explain to me that he was married thirty years to someone that didn’t love him, and then he remarri
Sheena Iyengar - The Art of Choosing
One could even argue that we have a duty to create and pass on stories about choice because once a person knows such stories, they can’t be taken away from him. He may lose his possessions, his home, his loved ones, but if he holds on to a story about choice, he retains the ability to practice choice.
Shannon L. Alder -
If two people truly have feelings for one another then they don’t have an affair. They get a divorce and they sort out their feelings. You are accountable for the people you hold hostage in a marriage when your mind and heart refuse to fully commit to them.
Jeffrey R. Anderson - The Nature of Things - Navigating Everyday Life with Grace
Look to your heart and soul first, rather than looking to your head first, when choosing. Rather than what you think, consider instead how you feel. Look to the nature of things. Feel your choices and decisions. It just might change everything.
Scott Perkins - Howard Carter Saves the World
Why choose the lesser evil anyway, when the greater evil is usually higher quality and will last longer before it breaks?
Israelmore Ayivor - Shaping the dream
Congratulate yourself as a good beginner. Feel proud of God for choosing you to begin the work at hand. Accept the work freely and get started. Be grateful.
Craig Groeschel - Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working
She said, "Right now, while we have this time, I'm not going to do any of that other stuff. I'm going to seize this moment and simply enjoy being with Jesus while I can." Mary made a deliberate choice. She wasn't being lazy and using company as an excuse to get out of helping her sister with chores. She was choosing to focus on what mattered the most.
Israelmore Ayivor - The Great Hand Book of Quotes
If I am to choose between integrity and wealth, I will go for integrity because I believe that lack of integrity is the first killer of wealthiest dreams!
Anthony Liccione -
Nothing won't change, until the choice is placed first. And until when choice is given a chance.
Craig D. Lounsbrough -
Most of my failures can be ascribed to the fact that I chose that which was ‘easy’ over that which was ‘right’. And while it’s ‘right’ to admit this to myself, it isn’t ‘easy.’ So, which choice am I going to make this time?
Julien Smith - The Flinch
You can't make yourself feel positive, but you can choose how to act, and if you choose right, it builds your confidence.