Top 1200 Our Choices Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Making mistakes is part of learning to choose well. No way around it. Choices are thrust upon us, and we don't always get things right. Even postponing or avoiding a decision can become a choice that carries heavy consequences. Mistakes can be painful-sometimes they cause irrevocable harm-but welcome to Earth. Poor choices are part of growing up, and part of life. You will make bad choices, and you will be affected by the poor choices of others. We must rise above such things.

How I wish we could all see the cost of our choices as clearly as a price tag on items in a store. If I know how much something is going to cost me, I make much wiser choices. But we have an enemy who schemes against us to keep the cost of dumb decisions concealed until it's too late.

People who achieve great things are people who make choices. Far too many people today let life dictate their future instead of the other way around. Choices are hard - that's why so few actually make them. But as the saying goes - not to make a choice is to make a choice. When it comes to choices, The question is - what choices will you make today? The world doesn't care about your problems, or what's holding you back. They don't care about your past failures, or any other obstacles you face. Stop making excuses and start making choices.

I'm trying to mediate between individual agency and structural determination. I accept that people make individual choices, quite thoughtful, quite careful, quite difficult choices, but they don't make them without constraints that shape what choices are possible and provide the intensity of the push toward choosing.

Why, in our "free" country, do Americans meekly stand aside and let the state limit our choices, even when we are dying?

Our character is but the stamp on our souls of the free choices of good and evil we have made through life.

As an artist, environment has a lot of impact on choices, and these choices can change by changing your location.

Our sartorial choices aren't that different from our psyches.

In the space between stimulus (what happens) and how we respond, lies our freedom to choose. Ultimately, this power to choose is what defines us as human beings. We may have limited choices but we can always choose. We can choose our thoughts, emotions, moods, our words, our actions; we can choose our values and live by principles. It is the choice of acting or being acted upon.

It saddens me that in the 21st century, with all our knowledge and power, we are hearing more and more stories of possible extinctions due to people's choice. We are responsible for our choices and the only ones capable of changing our future.

The time comes in the life of any nation when there remain only two choices - submit or fight. That time has now come to South Africa. We shall not submit and we have no choice but to hit back by all means in our power in defence of our people, our future, and our freedom

We make choices. No one else can live our lives for us. And we must confront and accept the consequences of our actions.

I am the result of the good choices I've made and the bad choices.

Ignorance, vulnerability, fear, anger, and desire are expressions of the infinite potential of your buddha nature. There's nothing inherently wrong or right with making such choices. The fruit of Buddhist practice is simply the recognition that these and other mental afflictions are nothing more or less than choices available to us because our real nature is infinite in scope.

Everyone has choices to make; no one has the right to take those choices away from us. Not even out of love.

Perhaps our greatest distinction as a species is our capacity, unique among animals, to make counter-evolutionary choices.

We all have choices we have to make, and with those choices come certain sacrifices.

What if evil doesn't really exist? What if evil is something dreamed up by man, and there is nothing to struggle against except out own limitations? The constant battle between our will, our desires, and our choices?

The mistake that the Bush administration should admit to is not so much that they made the wrong choices. They made the right analysis; they made the right choices. But what they did wrong was the execution of those choices. That was wrong.

The Bible unites its interpreters as a shared focus of attention, but it does not demand consensus. On the contrary, it invites and prods us to make responsible choices, to take responsibility for the choices that we have made... It was always like that, and our holy scripture grows over the centuries, gets thicker and thicker, with more texts around, which need/have to be looked into, referred to, considered.

I think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make.

Sometimes you get to a place in life where you feel you've made some choices, and maybe they weren't the right choices, and that it's all coming to an end.

Until the day arrives when all women decide that our rights are not negotiable, our future choices will not be secure.

I have been taught that we can make many choices in life, but we cannot choose our final destiny. Our actions do that.

Ethics is a code of values which guide our choices and actions and determine the purpose and course of our lives.

The most important story we'll ever write in life is our own-not with ink, but with our daily choices.

All elections are about choices, and good campaigns will make those choices clear.

As a poet and as an actress, we're taught to be far more elaborate with our words and - I wouldn't say generalize, but definitely stronger with our choices.

Why, in our 'free' country, do Americans meekly stand aside and let the state limit our choices, even when we are dying?

The ability to provide choices and the right to make choices that prove not detrimental, are the fundamental ingredients of free trade and independence.

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.

Life is made of moments and choices. Not all of them matter, or have any lasting impact Then there's a different kind of moment. One when things are irrevocably changed by a choice we make. A moment we will play endlessly in our minds on lonely nights and empty days So we explain it to ourselves, justify it enough to sleep. And then we bury it deep, so deep we can almost pretend it never happened. But as much as we wish it were different, the truth is, our worlds are sometimes balanced on choices we make and the secrets we keep.

When people have too many choices, they make bad choices.

People make their own choices, and sometimes those choices suck.

What we are living with is the result of human choices and it can be changed by making better, wiser choices.

Our choices determine our destiny

We, as individuals, are defined by the choices we make. Some of our decisions can have very significant consequences and totally change the courses of our lives.

I believe feminism is grounded in supporting the choices of women even if we wouldn’t make certain choices for ourselves.

Choices, more choices than we like afterward to believe, are made far backward in the innocence of childhood.

We need choices of government, just like we have choices of tables or chairs or cell phones or coffee.

The spiritual test inherent in all our lives is the challenge to discover what motivates us to make the choices we do, and whether we have faith in our fears or the Divine.

I have found success is ultimately realized by people who make more right choices . . . and recover quickly from their bad choices.

There are times when we can blame a situation on others, but we own our reactions to them. There comes a point where we are the ones responsible for our choices and excuses don’t carry weight anymore.

We create our own destiny by the way we do things. We have to take advantage of opportunities and be responsible for our choices.

Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping the outcomes [of the various societies' histories] towards success or failure: long-term planning and willingness to reconsider core values. On reflection we can also recognize the crucial role of these same two choices for the outcomes of our individual lives.

I've always been drawn to the idea that small choices in our lives could have drastic effects on our future.

Opposition provides choices, and choices bring consequences - good or bad.

As consumers, we are faced with hundreds of choices - and when it comes to books, thousands of choices.

Filmmaking is a thousand choices a day, and it's important to just let those choices potentially be informed by something deeper.

Often, we do not know where our choices will take us. This is why the best choices are often made based not on what they can bring to us, but what they will allow us to bring to others.

Men are free to decide their own moral choices, but they are also under the necessity to account to God for those choices.

We live in a society where healthy choices aren't usually the most popular choices.

Should I eat first or accuse the Master of the City of murder? Choices, choices. -Anita

I don't really have choices in the material I get. So I have to make the choices in the way I play the characters.

You know give me choices that are truly different from one another, otherwise they don't regard them as meaningful choices.

Our society has very much limited our choices, even regarding the food we think acceptable.

When we tell our own story, we teach the values that our choices reveal, not as abstract principals, but as our lived experience. We reveal the kind of person we are to the extent that we let others identify with us.

Filmmaking is a thousand choices a day and it's important to just let those choices potentially be informed by something deeper.

People of poor character tend to blame their choices on circumstances. Ethical people make good choices regardless of circumstances. If they make enough good choices, they begin to create better conditions for themselves.

You really don't create an authoritarian society unless you control the personal choices including the sexual choices of the people.