55 Motivational Quotes About Choices and Sayings

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Life consists of an endless number of choices. We are willing to learn from our failures and draw on our strengths. Here are several motivating, wise, and thinking-provoking excerpts, option words and proverbs to inform you of the value of choices. The right 55 encouraging quotes about choices and sayings regarding making life options.

Motivational quotes about choices and sayings

1. “The right choices over time greatly improve your odds of a long and healthy life.” — Tom Rath

2. “Make choices that bring love and joy to your body. It’s not about perfection; it’s about love and gratitude for an amazing body that works hard and deserves your respect.” — Alysia Reiner

3. “A good financial plan is a road map that shows us exactly how the choices we make today will affect our future.” — Alexa Von Tobel

4. “Yes, there are probably too many tattoos. But there are too many bad haircuts, too many bad shoe choices, too many bad jeans.” — Nick Wooster

5. “Life is about luck and it’s about circumstances and socioeconomic conditions and all the rest of it, but you know, you can also make choices. It’s about spirit and generosity and all the other things, too.” — Mike Leigh

6. “I really like the risk-takers. I like people who make those different choices on the carpet. I really like Charlize Theron. I think she’s elegant and edgy as well. I love Zoe Saldana.” — Genesis Rodriguez

7. “My dear, with your love I can calmly face my impending trial, having no regrets about the choices I’ve made and optimistically awaiting tomorrow.” — Liu Xiaobo

8. “Both Republicans and Democrats can agree that more choices and lower prices in transportation would benefit consumers. Democrats would consider it ‘smart government’ and Republicans ‘limited government.’” — Marvin Ammori

9. “I think when it comes to Botox and surgery, actresses should do it or not do it, but be honest about their choices.” — Debra Winger

10. “Another parent’s different approach raises the possibility that you’ve made a mistake with your child. We simply can’t tolerate that because we fear that any mistake, no matter how minor, could have devastating consequences. So we proclaim the superiority of our own choices. We’ve lost sight of the fact that people have preferences.” — Ayelet Waldman

Famous quotes on choices to inspire be yourself and words of encouragement

11. “Change is not overcoming inertia as much as it is redirecting, guiding, tweaking what already is and what has already happened. We must believe that we can make choices and that those choices can alter the future.” — Max McKeown

12. “Women deserve better. They deserve the freedom to make their own health care choices.” — Suzan DelBene

13. “I’m pro responsible choice. You know, there is choice to abstain, choice to do contraception. There are all kinds of good choices.” — Sharron Angle

14. “I think I’ve made some choices that maybe I wasn’t so sure about for some reason or another. But I’m one of the lucky ones. Even when I was young, I played Bird, and that’s a role people wait for their whole lifetime.” — Forest Whitaker

15. “I don’t know what draws me to my films. In hindsight, my choices turn out OK.” — Dulquer Salmaan

16. “I see my upbringing as a great success story. By disciplining me, my parents inculcated self-discipline. And by restricting my choices as a child, they gave me so many choices in my life as an adult. Because of what they did then, I get to do the work I love now.” — Amy Chua

17. “Not everyone’s a perfect parent, but we do learn, and we grow from that. I’m not trying to be harsh on my family because it does make them sad to think back about how they used to be and some of their choices.” — Farrah Abraham

18. “Am I getting better at making choices? Well, I think I might be getting better at reading scripts.” — Benicio Del Toro

19. “The kids that are different and out there and expressive and are bold with those choices, those are the people that grow up to be people we all want to hang out with, that become celebrities or become really successful in what they do because they believe in who they are.” — Adam Lambert

20. “Seeing other people perform inspires me. I couldn’t be a good performer if just relied on my own talents. Seeing what other brave choices other actors are making gives me the strength to be bold in auditions and to approach roles in different kind of ways.” — Andrew Keenan-Bolger

Inspirational quotes about choices to joy for happiness

21. “Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children’s children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.” — Maggie Q

22. “Individualism. Narcissism. Value-free choices. These are all key elements in the decline of the practice of mutual accountability in Western churches, among clergy and laity alike.” — David Augsburger

23. “The way to activate the seeds of your creation is by making choices about the results you want to create. When you make a choice, you activate vast human energies and resources, which otherwise go untapped.” — Robert Fritz

24. “We’re all diminished and restricted by sweeping statements defining boy and girl, our expectations and disappointments with ourselves, the way we look, what we enjoy, and the choices we make.” — Sara Pascoe

25. “To be honest, when you’re running a series and you have an open end, you don’t want to limit yourself too much with the choices you’ve got for a particular character.” — Julian Fellowes

26. “Libertarians argue that no normal adult has the right to impose choices on other normal adults, except in abnormal circumstances, such as when one person finds another unconscious and administers medical assistance or calls an ambulance.” — Tom G. Palmer

27. “My choices in projects have all been character or role-based, and on a financial level, it’s obvious: as an actor on a TV series, I get a wonderful paycheck, and a consistent paycheck, which doesn’t always happen when you’re doing theater or movies.” — Jim Parsons

28. “I have no deep-seated desire to be famous; that’s not what’s driving me, so if it’s something I don’t want to do, I don’t do it. Maybe it’s stubborn, but any choices, if you don’t like them, yell at me, because it for sure was my bad.” — Cam

29. “You can only do three things with your money. You can spend it. You can invest it. Or you can give it away. And if you invest it, you’re really just getting more money to give away or buy something. How many things can you buy? So I don’t really think there’s a lot of choices.” — David Rubenstein

30. “When you do what I’ve done – the normal Hollywood way, where you let people do things for you – and then you make certain choices where you have to learn to do it for yourself, which is how you should do it, it caused me to get way behind in stuff. I wouldn’t change a thing because it’s been a very important learning thing.” — Stephen Baldwin

Inspirational quotes about choices and positive sayings

31. “My faith sometimes burdens me with the responsibility to think very deeply and long and hard about the choices I make creatively. There are projects I turn down because the material is too much a violation of what I believe. But that’s true of anybody.” — Scott Derrickson

32. “Sometimes when you look at somebody else’s career or choices or family, there’s almost a comfort in knowing there’s another option.” — Carrie Brownstein

33. “Capitalism is not about free competitive choices among people who are reasonably equal in their buying and selling of economic power, it is about concentrating capital, concentrating economic power in very few hands using that power to trash everyone who gets in their way.” — David Korten

34. “It is not government’s job to mandate responsibility on our behalf. We have the intelligence and good sense to make wise consumption choices for ourselves and our children. It is up to us to do what is best for our health and our children’s health.” — Mike Crapo

35. “Tone is somewhat totalising in that, once I locate it, it tells me what kind of syntax to use, what word choices to make, how much white space to leave on the page, what sentence length, what the rhythmic patterning will be. If I can’t find the tone, I sometimes try narrating through the point of view of someone else.” — Rachel Kushner

36. “In a culture defined by shades of gray, I think the absolute black and white choices in dark young adult novels are incredibly satisfying for readers.” — Maggie Stiefvater

37. “I always told myself after ‘Jem,’ I don’t want fear to change my choices.” — Jon M. Chu

38. “I’m always surprised at what I actually end up doing because I don’t have a strategy or a game plan, especially now that I’m making my own choices.” — Gemma Arterton

Choice Quotes

“Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.” – William Jennings Bryan

“If it is to be, it is up to me.” -William H. Johnsen

“Choice” “Chance” “Change” You must make a “Choice” To take a “Chance” or your life will never “Change”. -Author Unknown

“We must all make the choice between what is right and what is easy.” -Professor Dumbledore

“Everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedom – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” -Viktor Frankl

“Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.” -Wayne Dyer

“When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that in itself is a choice.” -William James

“There are always two choices. Two paths to take. One is easy. And its only reward is that it’s easy.”

“One’s philosophy is best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.”
–Eleanor Roosevelt

“Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.” –W. Clement Stone

“Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.” -Francis Bacon

“We are a product of the choices we make, not the circumstances that we face.” -Roger Crawford

No matter what the situation, remind yourself, “I Have A Choice.” -Deepak Chopra

“I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.” -Eleanor Roosevelt

“WE ARE OUR CHOICES!” – Jean Paul Sartre