Top 1200 Tough Choices Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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.

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.

When you present people with things from the heart and from the soul, they make better choices: They make better choices about their bodies, they make better choices about their partners, they make better choices about the environment.

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

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.

In the early years, I was able to accommodate most of the requests and favors that came my way, but as the requests multiplied, I had to make tough choices because the numbers were more than I could handle.

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

I think if you're trying to be mindful of eating well on the road, it can be difficult no matter what. Your choices at midnight or one o'clock in some of the smaller towns when we are getting out of shows aren't going to be the best choices for eating healthy no matter what your dietary choices or restrictions are.

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

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.

We have really good data that show when you take patients and you really inform them about their choices, patients make more frugal choices. They pick more efficient choices than the health care system does.

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

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

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

Most business processes are about making choices from a set of existing alternatives. Clearly, if all your competition is doing the same, then differentiation is tough. In order to innovate, we have to have new alternatives and new solutions to problems, and that is what design can do.

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

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

Sometimes the things presented to us as choices aren't choices at all.

I've auditioned for animation stuff for a long time; that's a tough field to crack into. I don't think I have the strongest voice. I don't have a theater-trained voice or a radio voice, but I think I make good character choices.

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

The master who fears the choices his people will make enough to take those choices away isn't worth serving.

There is an English saying, "When the going gets tough, the tough get going." Women often become these tough ones.

It's tough to be an actor and it's tough to portray a real person, and it's tough to play two people adding up to one person.

Tough times don't last, but tough people do. And I've been through some tough times, and I know a lot of people can recall tough times, and maybe are going through some tough times right now, but they don't last.

It's important with any new technology to try to pay conscious attention to what the drawbacks might be. We choose to multitask. Sometimes our choices aren't the wisest of choices, and we regret them, but they are our choices. I think it'd be wrong to think that they're automatically bad.

Ben Askren, he's a tough boy. Golly, he's a tough boy. That's what wrestling does. When you wrestle your whole life, you got to be a tough dude to wrestle.

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.

The really tough choices...don't center upon right versus wrong. They involve right versus right. They are genuine dilemmas precisely because each side is firmly rooted in one of our basic, core values.

For me, going home at 5:30 is as much about my own choices, but also giving my team those choices, too.

Barring extreme physical and mental disabilities, each and every one of us is where we are today -- be it poor or wealthy, happy or sad, on the streets or in a condo, in a Mercedes or a rusted-out Pinto -- because of the choices we have made during our lives. It's the choices we have made that put us where we are, not the choices others have made for us.

I think you can be tough and aggressive with facts in a way that you cannot be tough and aggressive with emotional retorts. Most of the people that try to be tough on TV are really just being emotional and not factual.

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

The choices we make when we're broken are sometimes the most awful of all our choices.

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

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

Physically, I’m not tough. I may think tough. I would say I’m kinda tough and calloused inside. I could use a foot more in height and fifty more pounds and fifteen years off my age and then God help all you bastards.

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

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

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

I think back story can help guide your choices, but when you're playing a scene, you're not making choices; you're just intuitive.

You can't make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable.

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.

As an actor you make choices that are either right or wrong, and you find the ones that are right for you. As an understudy, the choices have been made, so you have to make those choices right. Going into the role, you can't really question it.

What I want to talk to you about today is the difference between gifts and choices. Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy - they’re given after all. Choices can be hard. You can seduce yourself with your gifts if you’re not careful, and if you do, it’ll probably be to the detriment of your choices.

Sometimes, when you grow up in one of these poverty-stricken neighborhoods where the educational system isn't the best, you don't realize that you have any choices. Often, kids don't appreciate the choices available, as if it's either the street or nothing. I want them to understand that reality is what's relative to you, and that you can make choices that allow you to create a new reality for yourself.

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.

Don’t think so. We all make our choices, and those choices have consequences.

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

I am drawn to those parts; I like the tough girls because they are not tough. It's a veil; it's a disguise. It's defenses. At the core, everybody is human, everybody is fragile, everybody is terrified, and the fear is what propels you to be tough.

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.

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

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

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

In heaven, there is no judgment, but rather an opportunity to examine our lives-who we touched, the choices we made, and the consequences of those choices.

Real vision demands that we make tough choices. Real vision is responsible and it is paid for.

What leads us astray is confusing more choices with more control. Because it is not clear that the more choices you have the more in control you feel. We have more choices than we've ever had before.

This life is a test, and we're put down here to make choices. The truth is, the bad choices of other people can hurt us.

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

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