Choices Quotes - Page 22

He [Martin Luther King Jr.] always used to say you have no choice about being born or dying. The only thing you have a choice about is what you die for.

When you see opportunities in your life, you've got to analyze, 'Why was that choice given to me?

In life you have a choice: Bitter or Better? Choose better, forget bitter.

Once you decide that mediocrity is unthinkable, your only choices are excellence and quitting.

Eventually stardom is going to go away from me. It goes away from everybody and all you have in the end is to be able to look back and like the choices you made.

It isn’t necessary to know exactly how your ideal life will look; you only have to know what feels better and what feels worse…Begin making choices based on what makes you feel freer and happier, rather than on how you think an ideal life should look. It’s the process of feeling our way toward happiness, not the realization of the Platonic ideal, that creates our best lives.

I think of all the choices I never knew. And those I let be made for me - to please, from fear, for love. Where did they disappear to, those choices that I never made? They are all part of who I am. They are the legacy I leave behind, they are the finished portrait of myself I cannot change.

Part of being a feminist is giving other women the freedom to make choices you might not necessarily make yourself.

Conscious people always have a choice of whether to try to modify the actions of people around them or to change their response to the incoming stimuli.

We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place--or not to bother

The only choice permitted us is either to be servants for $7 a week or to portray them for $700 per week.

Style is having the courage of one's choices and the courage to say no. It's good taste and culture.

You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. Every time you don't throw yourself down the stairs, that's a choice. Every time you don't crash your car, you re-enlist.

We often feel paralyzed by choice and make no choice. But the thing is, no choice is a choice. If you’re not doing something about it, you’re doing something about it.

The saddest thing in life is wasted talent, and the choices you make will shape your life forever.

Every single choice we make is either going to enhance the spirit or drain it. Every day, we're either giving ourselves power or taking it away.

Accept that you are where you are and what you are because of your own choices and decisions.

Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.

I knew that I was going to have a life as a musician, because I always felt the pull. I don't remember ever having to make a choice.

Barbie always represented the fact that a woman has choices.

You need to be uncomfortable and apprehensive: True strategy is about placing bets and making hard choices. The objective is not to eliminate risk but to increase the odds of success.

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.

This breath, and this moment, and this life is a gift and we are all in this together. We all have countless choices every day to close down or stand up straight and open up, and take a big breath and say YES to the gift.

Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.

All you have in the end is to look back and like the choices you've made.