Explore Quotes on Choices

Happiness does not depend on your circumstances; it depends on your will. It's a choice that you make.

And then, when I went into the Navy, there was no choice. You took about half of the hours during your naval training as naval courses and the other half were engineering.

I believe that uncertainty is really my spirit's way of whispering, I'm in flux. I can't decide for you. Something is off-balance here.

You don't have to settle. It's a choice you get to make every day.

Just saying yes because you can't bear the short-term pain of saying no is not going to help you do the work.

If you're not proud of where you work, go work somewhere else.

If there's time for an emergency, why isn't there time for brilliance, generosity or learning?

When one of the down Easters boasted of not having any gray hair, but who was bald, Dad told the story of how St. Peter had given his choice of getting bald or getting gray and he chose the latter. Have never smoked, chewed nor used tea coffee or liquor except for medicinal purposes. The want of it is more than the worth of it.

In an echo of earlier times, the climate change prophets have in recent years tried to silence counter views and suppress dissent. August members of the Royal Society, a body once noted for its cultivation of debate in science, are now leaders of the 'science is settled' camp: the only debate they consider to be legitimate is about choice among the different forms of the centralized action they believe is required to deal with the problems they foresee.

What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.

There's always something to suggest that you'll never be who you wanted to be. Your choice is to take it or keep on moving.

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

If people who cherish freedom, who know the importance of mutual respect and are aware of the imperative necessity to establish a constructive and critical debate, if these people are not ready to speak out, to be more committed and visible, then we can expect sad, painful tomorrows. The choice is ours.

We believe that the European Union is facing a truly historic choice.

Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.

My choices in films are spontaneous.

This word "description" may be disconcerting when used to refer to what is generally called a translation. But when one wishes to render a verbal creation (as opposed to a didactic statement) from one language to another, he is confronted with two equally unsatisfactory choices. He may, according to his talents, elaborate a similar, but never identical creation, or he may describe that creation as completely as possible in his own language.

I like to be a free spirit. Some don't like that, but that's the way I am.

I think that you make the best choice with the information that you have before you at that given time.

Light and shadow are opposite sides of the same coin. We can illuminate our paths or darken our way. It is a matter of choice.

Politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't.