Top 1200 Choose Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.

A flower can't choose the place where it blooms, and a child can't choose the parents she's born to

[On writing:] What a difficult kind of work to choose! But of course one did not choose it. There was no choice.

I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I am still choosing.

People do not choose Dropbox because it has this much space or gigabytes. They choose it for the experience.

Choice is bondage, choicelessness freedom. The moment you choose something, you have fallen in the trap of the world. If you can resist the temptation to choose, if you can remain choicelessly aware, the trap disappears on its own accord, because when you don`t choose you don`t help the trap to be there - the trap is also created by your choice.

I didn't fall in love with you. I walked into love with you, with my eyes wide open, choosing to take every step along the way. I do believe in fate and destiny, but I also believe we are only fated to do the things that we'd choose anyway. And I'd choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I'd find you and I'd choose you.

One cannot choose how one's life begins but one can choose to face the end with courage

If we trust parents to choose child care for their children, and we trust them to help their children choose a college to attend – and both those systems have been so successful – why do we not also trust them to choose the best elementary or high school for their children?

The greatest power God gave us is the power to choose. We have the opportunity to choose whether we're going to act or procrastinate, believe or doubt, pray or curse, help or heal. We also choose whether we're going to be happy or whether we're going to be sad.

The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.

The mind always wants to choose. The mind lives through choice. If you don't choose the mind drops. This is the way of Lao Tzu. How to drop the mind? - don't choose! That's why he never prescribes any meditation, because then there is no need for any meditation.

We can choose to alleviate suffering. We can choose to work together for peace. We can make these changes - and we must.

You can't really choose what influences you. You can't choose what sparks something inside you.

Be okay with who you are. And that you can't choose your parents or what life you were born into, but you can choose the kind of person you want to be.

Asked to choose between money and fame, I'd choose the latter every time.

The way I choose parts is I look at the scripts... I choose a part by whether or not it challenges me.

Whatever you choose for yourself, give to another. If you choose to be happy, cause another to be happy. If you choose to be prosperous, cause another to prosper. If you choose more love in your life, cause another to have more love in theirs.

I choose life. I choose to eat, for I yearn for something more.

The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.

Amor animi arbitrio sumitu, non ponitur; we choose to love; we do not choose to cease loving.

For memory is a moral action, a choice. You can choose to remember. You can choose not.

The world we live in is the world we choose to live in, whether consciously or unconsciously. If we choose bliss, that's what we get. If we choose misery, we get that, too.

Choose beliefs that serve your soul - choose beliefs that serve the grander dream of who you choose to be.

Most Muslims do not 'choose' Islam in the way that they choose to become doctors or lawyers, nor even in the way that they choose to become fans of Coldplay or Radiohead. Most Muslims, like people of any faith, are born into their religion.

We’ve all seen the same situation happen to two people. One looks for the lesson, sets their shoulders back and presses on while the other asks ‘why does it always happen to me?’ You can choose not to sit on the fence. You can choose not to criticise. You must stand as guard at the door of your own mind and choose to be positive.

In choosing a president, we really don't choose a Republican or Democrat, a conservative or liberal. We choose a leader.

If one must choose between rigour and meaning, I shall unhesitatingly choose the latter.

When we choose a god we choose one as much like ourselves as possible, or even more so!

A people free to choose will always choose peace.

While we cannot always choose what happens to us, we can choose our responses.

I have lived poverty. I didn't choose it. No one would choose humiliation, pain, and rage.

The essence of greatness is the ability to choose personal fulfillment in circumstances where others choose madness.

In the end you can't always choose what to keep. You can only choose how you let it go.

Because if you're gonna make someone choose, then you shouldn't be surprised when they don't choose you.

I must choose between despair and Energy??I choose the latter.

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.

I pay all my own bills... I want to choose the man. I do not permit men to choose me.

Actually I don't choose to expose myself in public. I choose to compete; the other side just comes with the package.

There are some things we can't choose, but in being present we can choose how we want to relate to them

Relationships ending are painful, and you can choose to carry that, or you can choose to reframe it.

A person can't choose where he's born. But he can choose where he spends his life.

That's one thing the musicians don't remember: you don't choose your demographic - they choose you.

Agency, or the power to choose, was ours as spirit children of our Creator before the world was. It is a gift from God, nearly as precious as life itself. Often, however, agency is misunderstood. While we are free to choose, once we have made those choices, we are tied to the consequence of those choices. We are free to take drugs or not. But once we choose to use a habit-forming drug, we are bound to the consequences of that choice. Addiction surrenders later freedom to choose.

When you wake up each morning, you can choose to be happy or choose to be sad. Unless some terrible catastrophe has occurred the night before, it is pretty much up to you. Tomorrow morning, when the sun shines through your window, choose to make it a happy day.

Pain or perspective, that's the choice.' . . . You choose pain - you choose to fight it, deny it, bury it - then yes, the choice is always hard. But you choose perspective - embrace your history, give it credit for the better person it can make you, scars and all - the choice gets easier every time.

Choose the kids. There will be plenty of time later to choose work.

The birth of excellence begins with our awareness that our beliefs are a choice. We usually don't think of it that way, but belief can be a conscious choice. You can choose beliefs that limit you, or you can choose beliefs that support you. The trick is to choose the beliefs that are conducive to success and the results you want and to discard the ones that hold you back.

Choose your friends carefully, for you will tend to be like them and be found where they choose to go.

I can choose to be happy, or choose to be miserable every day - waiting until I die.

Can any man or woman choose duties? No more than they can choose their birthplace or their father and mother.

If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.

The power of choice. You have it. But you forfeit it when you imagine that you can choose for others. You can't. But you can choose for yourself.

We are free to choose our paths, but we can't choose the consequences that come with them.

One should choose for a wife only such a woman as he would choose for a friend, were she a man.

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.

I choose to hunt, and I choose to fish. Everything I've done has been totally legal.

I certainly supported a woman's right to choose, but to my mind the time to choose was before, not after the fact.

You can't choose your childhood, it's just what happens to you. But after that you choose. And that's really what (makes you).

I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.