Our life is made of a never ending amount of choices – some are easy, some are tough. It’s important for us to carefully think about the decisions we make because they can affect us in the long run and can change our lives forever. If you’re looking for quotes that will inspire or help you make better choices then you came to the right place. Here are some of the best quotes about choices that we compiled just for you. Enjoy!
Quotes About Choices
1. The hardest decisions in life are not between good and bad or right and wrong, but between two goods or two rights. – Joe Andrew
2. Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
3. Any decision I make is the biggest decision of my life. – Carmelo Anthony
4. Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision. – Anthony Robbins
5. The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life, and the procedure, the process is its own reward. – Amelia Earhart
6. This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live. – Omar Bradley
7. We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals. – Stephen Covey
8. There are a lot of things going on with my life right now that don’t just have to do with career. So I have a hard time making decisions about work. That’s really a luxury problem. – Philip Seymour Hoffman
9. Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life. – Victor Hugo
10. Look for your choices, pick the best one, and then go with it. – Pat Riley
11. But the rule seems to be that the bigger and more life-changing the decision, the less it will seem like a decision at all. – Hugh Mackay
12. It’s very easy to make certain decisions that affect your life that you have no perspective on. – Jena Malone
13. Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant. – Tony Robbins
14. Sometimes it’s the smallest decisions that can change your life forever. – Keri Russell
15. I’m just kind of taking whatever life gives me and hoping that I make the right decision. – Amy Smart
16. Life is a matter of choices and every choice you make makes you. – John C. Maxwell
17. When you live your life acting upon your deepest intuitions, no decision you ever make in life will be feared or a risk. – Keshia Chante
18. Life forces enough final decisions on us. We should have the sense to avoid as many of the unnecessary ones as we can. – John Irving
19. We can’t undo a single thing we have ever done, but we can make decisions today that propel us to the life we want and towards the healing we need. – Steve Maraboli
20. The quality of your life ultimately is shaped by the quality of your choices and decisions. – Robin Sharma
21. To decide is to walk facing forward with nary a crick in your neck from looking back at the crossroads. – Betsy Canas Garmon
22. Decisions become easier when your will to please God outweighs your will to please the world. – Anso Coetzer
23. Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
24. The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. – George Eliot
25. There are two primary choices in life to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them. – Denis Waitley
26. Choice means saying no to one thing so you can say yes to another. – Dan Millman
27. Every choice you make has an end result. – Zig Ziglar
28. For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve. – Aristotle
29. We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves. – Thomas Merton
30. We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. – Kahlil Gibran
31. And in life, it is all about choices we make. And how the direction of our lives comes down to the choices we choose. – Catherine Pulsifer
32. To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life. – Abbie M Dale
33. Every person, all the events of your life are drawn there because you have them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you. – Richard Bach
34. He is free knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide. – Salvador De Madriaga
35. The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action. – John Dewey
36. All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it. – Harry S. Truman
37. Before my accidents, there were ten thousands things I could do. I could spend the rest of my life dwelling on the things that I had lost, but instead I chose to focus on the nine thousand I still had left. – W. Mitchell
38. In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. – Theodore Roosevelt
39. How you react to situations is your personal choice. It is your decision, and yours alone, to determine the importance you give to any situation. – Catherine Pulsifer
40. Sometimes it’s the smallest decisions that can change your life forever. – Keri Russell
41. Life presents you with so many decisions. A lot of times, they’re right in front of your face and they’re really difficult, but we must make them. – Brittany Murphy
42. Choices are the hinges of destiny. – Edwin Markham
43. I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime. – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
44. I think that there is something beautiful about mortality. It makes our decisions mean more. – Brandon Boyd
45. 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. – Jim Rohn
46. Life presents many choices, the choices we make determine our future. – Catherine Pulsifer
47. The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose. – Thornton Wilder
48. The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms. – Neal Boortz
49. The choice to take action to accomplish what you want or what you deserve is entirely up to you. No one is going to seek you out and no one is going to do it for you. It’s your move. – Catherine Pulsifer
50. Our parents bring us into the world, but in the end, we are responsible for what we become. – Kahlil Gibran
51. We couldn’t help getting angry when we were hurt; we had no choice in the matter. We can, however, make a decision about whether we’ll allow that anger to turn into rage. – Brian Jones
52. Only when we accept the fact that we are where we are because of choices we’ve made in the past can we live every day of the rest of our lives in the certain knowledge that we can do anything we want to do if we simply make the right choices. – Jim Stovall
53. God’s will is not automatic. He allows us to make choices. – Rick Warren
54. You shape your future every day through the choices you make. That’s sort of a hard one to swallow, isn’t it? It would be much easier to say you are a victim of circumstances. Then you don’t have to act. Your choices create your reality. – Jason Harvey
55. There are moments when one has to choose between living one’s own life fully, entirely, completely, or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands. – Oscar Wilde
56. May your choices reflect your hopes not your fears. – Nelson Mandela
57. Every man has a choice between love of truth and love of repose. Love of repose brings him a solid reputation and peaceful life; love of truth keeps him in suspense. A man who loves truth respects the highest law of his being. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
58. Whether transition is forced upon us or comes about by personal choice, making it to the other side requires that we intentionally process the loss, celebrate the victories, and plan for the next productive season. – Tim Austin
59. When we find inspiration, we need to take action for ourselves and for our communities. Even if it means making a hard choice, or cutting out something and leaving it in your past. – Aron Ralston
60. I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it’s only a choice of attitude. – Judith M. Knowlton
61. No one forces a person to be negative, and no one forces anyone to be positive. The choice is up to an individual and that person alone. – Byron Pulsifer
62. And we have complete control over our own attitude. We are the ones we decide how we feel, how we look at things, how we react. – Catherine Pulsifer
63. Each person has a choice, the choice to do as one may wish and as one wants remains with the individual. If a person sees no benefit to change, they will not change. – Byron Pulsifer
64. In every single thing you do, you are choosing a direction. Your life is a product of choices. – Dr. Kathleen Hall
65. Too many times, the majority of people choose to limit their own power and potential because they have not allowed themselves the opportunity to see the big picture of what can truly be theirs in life. – Mark Eriksson
66. Every day, you make choices about what you will dedicate your time to, how you will spend your money, and who you will rely on. In every aspect of your life, you have the ability to choose either simplicity or complexity; finances, work, chores, shopping, entertainment, and relationships may all be sources of stress and chaos, or they may become wellsprings of peace and contentment. – Chelsea Walters
67. Did you know that to worry about a situation you are making a conscious choice to do so? – Mike C. Adams
68. We all need to decide whether to “play it safe” in life and worry about the downside, or instead take a chance, by being who we really are and living the life our heart desires. Which choice are you making? – Charlie Badenhop
69. You are free to make whatever choice you want, but you are not free from the consequences of the choice.
70. Decisions are the hardest thing to make especially when it is a choice between where you should be and where you want to be.
71. May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears. – Nelson Mandela
72. The 3 C’s of life are choices, chances, changes. You must make a choice to take a chance or your life never change.
73. Make good choices today so you don’t have regrets tomorrow.
74. Every day brings new choices. – Martha Beck
75. Life is all about making choices. Always do your best to make the right ones, and always do your best to learn from the wrong ones.
76. Everything in your life is a reflection of a choice you have made. If you want a different result, make a different choice.
77. Every morning you have two choices, continue to sleep with your dreams or wake up and chase your dreams. The choice is yours.
78. There are two primary choices in life to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them. – Denis Waitley
79. I believe we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime. – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
80. You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear. – Sammy Davis Jr.
81. Sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the same.
82. Your life is a result of the choices you make. If you don’t like your life, it is time to start making better choices.
83. We make our choices, then our choices make us.
84. Ignore the noise and follow your own choice.
85. Every test in our life makes us bitter or better, every problem comes to break us or make us. The choice is ours whether we become victim or victor.
86. I choose to take charge of the rest of my life.
87. Choices are the hinges of destiny. – Edwin Markham
88. Your attitude plus your choices equals your life.
89. I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday. – Elenor Roosevelt
90. You can let things define you, destroy you, or strengthen you. It’s your choice.
91. It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped. – Tony Robbins
92. Remember, there are no mistakes, only lessons. Love yourself, trust your choices, and everything is possible. – Cherie-Carter Scotts
93. Everyone makes mistakes in life, but that doesn’t mean they have to pay for them for the rest of their life. Sometimes good people make bad choices. It doesn’t mean they’re bad, it means they’re humans.
94. Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. – William Jennings Bryan
95. The choices we make determine our destiny. – Brandon October
96. It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. – J.K. Rowling
97. The hardest decisions in life are not between good and bad or right and wrong, but between two goods or two rights. – Joe Andrew
98. Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery. – H. Jackson Brown Jr.
99. When we find inspiration, we need to take action for ourselves and for our communities. Even if it means making a hard choice, or cutting out something and leaving it in your past. – Aron Ralston
100. Any decision I make is the biggest decision of my life. – Carmelo Anthony
101. When bad things happen to you, focus on what you can learn from it. If you focus on the bad, you’re doomed to repeat it. – Mel Robbins
102. The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward. – Amelia Earhart
103. This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live. – Omar Bradley
104. We all need to decide whether to “play it safe” in life and worry about the downside, or instead take a chance, by being who we really are and living the life our heart desires. Which choice are you making? – Charlie Badenhop
105. You came empty on earth, why overloaded now, were all your choices absolutely correct, it is never too late to reconsider them? – William Ngwako Maphoto
106. You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself. – W. Clement Stone
107. The choices that we make in our life, indeed determine the kind of results that we experience and the quality of the life that we live. – Sumeet Jain
108. The choices we make every minute of every day can contribute to making someone’s life a little bit better or worse even without intending to. – Chikamso Efobi
109. Big changes don’t have to be hard, but they do have to start with a choice. This is where real change begins, this is where you start taking control of your life and how you choose to live it, this is where it all starts. – Nathalie Thompson
110. In my experience working with a variety of people over several decades, far too many individuals choose to be anonymous members of the pack, therefore suffering from the inner remorse that makes them feel like failures, filled with conflict and resentment and wondering what the meaning of life is. – Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
111. By knowing that you can fail and making the choice to take the risk you will be setting yourself up for success and not failure. – Jennifer N. Smith
112. Addicts cannot change the abuse suffered in childhood. They cannot undo the choices they have made or the hurt they have caused. But they can change the future – through the power they have in the present moment. – Ryan Holiday
113. Most of the choices we make each day may feel like the products of well-considered decision making, but they’re not. They’re habits. And though each habit means relatively little on its own, over time, the meals we order, what we say to our kids each night, whether we save or spend, how often we exercise, and the way we organize our thoughts and work routines have enormous impacts on our health, productivity, financial security, and happiness. – Charles Duhigg
114. Expanding our capacity to talk, particularly when we face critical choices, is a life-enhancing skill. I believe that there is no faster way for us to evolve than through the process of interacting with one another. – Sarah Rozenthuler
115. In this new era, you have two choices: become a temp staffer not a horrible choice or become an artist-entrepreneur. Choose to commoditize your labor or choose yourself to be a creator, an innovator, an artist, an investor, a marketer, and an entrepreneur. – James Altucher
116. It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. – J.K. Rowling
117. Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely. – Roy T. Bennett
118. I fell in love with him. But I don’t just stay with him by default as if there’s no one else available to me. I stay with him because I choose to, every day that I wake up, every day that we fight or lie to each other or disappoint each other. I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me. – Veronica Roth
119. In the end that was the choice you made, and it doesn’t matter how hard it was to make it. It matters that you did. – Cassandra Clare
120. The world isn’t split into good people and Death Eaters. – J.K. Rowling
121. You cannot control the behavior of others, but you can always choose how you respond to it. – Roy T. Bennett
122. Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses, and start making changes. – Roy T. Bennett
123. As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all – the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them. – J.K. Rowling
124. We are our choices. – Jean-Paul Sartre
125. You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control the way you think about all the events. You always have a choice. You can choose to face them with a positive mental attitude. – Roy T. Bennett
126. It is not for me to judge another man’s life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone. – Herman Hesse
127. 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
128. There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it. – Shannon L. Alder
129. Sometimes you have to choose between a bunch of wrong choices and no right ones. You just have to choose which wrong choices feels the least wrong. – Colleen Hoover
130. Choose your love. Love your choice. – Thomas S. Monson
131. You are not the victim of the world, but rather the master of your own destiny. It is your choices and decisions that determine your destiny. – Roy T. Bennett
132. Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain. To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices – today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it. – Kevyn Aucoin
133. I’m a big believer that your life is basically a sum of all the choices you make. The better your choices, the better opportunity to lead a happy life. – Karen Salmansohn
134. Some of our important choices have a timeline. If we delay a decision, the opportunity is gone forever. Sometimes our doubts keep us from making a choice that involves change. Thus an opportunity may be missed. – James E. Faust
135. Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything all external expectations, all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. – Steve Jobs
136. So many roads. So many detours. So many choices. So many mistakes. Sarah – Jessica Parker
137. In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility. – Eleanor Roosevelt
138. Life is about choices. Some we regret, some were proud of. Some will haunt us forever. ‘Black Rain’ was very much about choices. The message – we are what we chose to be. – Graham Brown
139. Believe me, my journey has not been a simple journey of progress. There have been many ups and downs, and it is the choices that I made at each of those times that have helped shape what I have achieved. – Satya Nadella
