We are our choices. Build yourself a great story.
Jeff BezosRead
In the end, we are our choices.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Our lives are shaped by the choices we make rather than external circumstances.
This quote emphasizes the fundamental role that individual choices play in shaping our identities and destinies. Jeff Bezos suggests that at the conclusion of our lives, what defines us and our legacy are not the situations we find ourselves in, but rather the decisions we have made throughout our journey, reinforcing personal responsibility and self-determination.
Themes
ChoicesIdentityResponsibilityLegacySelf-Determination
In practice
Example use cases
During a motivational speech about taking control of one's life.
More from Jeff Bezos
All quotes βWork hard, have fun and make history.
Jeff BezosRead
If you're not stubborn, you'll give up on experiments too soon. And if you're not flexible, you'll pound your head against the wall and you won't see a different solution to a problem you're trying to solve.
Jeff BezosRead
But there's so much kludge, so much terrible stuff, we are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet. That's where we are. We don't get our hair caught in it, but that's the level of primitiveness of where we are. We're in 1908.
Jeff BezosRead
Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.
Jeff BezosRead
When you are eighty years old, and in a quiet moment of reflection narrating for only yourself the most personal version of your life story, the telling that will be most compact and meaningful will be the series of choices you have made. In the end, we are our choices.
Jeff BezosRead
Similar quotes
No free people ever existed, or can ever exist, without keeping the purse strings in their own hands. Where this is the case, they have a constitutional check upon the administration, which may thereby by brought into order without violence. But when such a power is not lodged in the people, oppression proceeds uncontrolled in its career, till the governed, transported into rage, seek redress in the midst of blood and confusion.
John DickinsonRead
Every time I look in the mirror, I see that kid from Louisville, Kentucky, staring back at me. His name was Cassius Clay.
Muhammad AliRead
Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out.
Luigi PirandelloRead
Women have to be extremely careful about choosing something that they consider an act of defiance that can really be used to further their enslavement.
Alice WalkerRead
My mind cannot know you, only labels, judgments, facts, and opinions about you. Being alone knows directly.
Eckhart TolleRead
How long had he been doing what was necessary instead of what was right? In a fair world they would be one and the same.
Robert JordanRead