Choices Quotes - Page 29

Choose between yesterday and tomorrow.

Look at the choices you have, not the choices that have been taken away from you. In them, there are whole worlds of strength and new ways to look at things.

Happiness is a choice.

Some people get into this business and they're so afraid to lose anything. They try to protect their position like clinging to a beachhead. These Actor s end up making really safe choices. I never wanted to go that route. If I go down, I'm going down swinging. I know that's the way Heath Ledger feels and Ben Affleck feels the same way, too. We want to take the big swings.

I frankly confess that even if it were possible I should not wish to have free choice given to me, or to have anything left in my own hands by which I might strive for salvation.

In life you have two choices. You can laugh or you can cry. You have to laugh, you have to.

I have often asked myself whether, given the choice, I would choose to have manic-depressive illness. If lithium were not available to me, or didn't work for me, the answer would be a simple no... and it would be an answer laced with terror. But lithium does work for me, and therefore I can afford to pose the question. Strangely enough, I think I would choose to have it. It's complicated.

AS a matter of fact, God isn't asking you to be thankful. He's asking you to give thanks. There's a big difference. One response involves emotions, the other your choices, your decisions about a situation, your intent, your 'step of faith.

You are what you are today because of the choices you made in the past

What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?

Anger is just anger. It isn't good. It isn't bad. It just is. What you do with it is what matters. It's like anything else. You can use it to build or to destroy. You just have to make the choice.

You are going to make choices and decisions that sometimes aren't going to always work in your favor and they are going to upset some other people.

Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is

once you lose yourself, you have two choices: find the person you used to be, or lose that person completely.

We often think of choice as a thing. But a choice is not a thing. Our options may be things, but a choice—a choice is an action. It is not just something we have but something we do.

Try to realize, and truly realize, that what stands between you and a different life are matters of responsible choice.

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

Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.

I am an eternal optimist. Being happy is a choice. And you can make that choice every day, if you want to.

Change is inevitable but personal growth is a choice.

Fortunately in my work there's always a choice: I can choose to do it willingly or unwillingly.

Even the simplest choice can make a jaw-dropping difference in our world.

Charity, if you have the means, is a personal choice, but charity which is expected or compelled is simply a polite word for slavery.

You have to be happy with who you are and the choices you make. If you don't like yourself, you'll never be truly happy.

Choices lead to habits. Habits become talents. Talents are labeled gifts. You’re not born this way, you get this way.