260+ Life Choices Quotes That Make You Rethink

Each of the following positive life choices quotes is overflowing with wisdom, life lessons, and knowledge. All you need is a couple of minutes out of your day, and you can make different or better choices depending on what you learn.

Reading deep quotes about making life choices can help you change your perspective. They encompass nearly every aspect that makes up our day-to-day lives.

Thanks to all the distractions around us today, it’s easy to lose focus of what really matters in our lives. Sometimes all we need a reminder. To help you make the most of your life, below is our collection of inspirational, wise, and thought-provoking life choices quotes:

Best Life Choices Quotes

Fear is at the root of so many of the barriers that women face. Fear of not being liked. Fear of making the wrong choice. Fear of drawing negative attention. Fear of overreaching. Fear of being judged. Fear of failure. And the holy trinity of fear: the fear of being a bad mother/wife/daughter. Sheryl Sandberg

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. Albert Einstein

Believe me, my journey has not been a simple journey of progress. There have been many ups and downs, and it is the choices that I made at each of those times that have helped shape what I have achieved. Satya Nadella

Its our choices… that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. J. K. Rowling

I love when people are resilient and when they form ways of dealing with grief or dealing with some traumatic episode, and sometimes those are the wrong choices. Atom Egoyan

Life is about making tough choices. Sometimes you have to go where your career is going. Bill Maher

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. George Bernard Shaw

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you are living? Bob Marley

Your life is a result of the choices you make. If you don’t like your life, it is time to start making better choices. Anonymous

Almost every comedy you see is about people making all wrong choices and making all the errors of judgment possible. Good comedy is when it works on this scale. Because it is psychologically very real. Colin Firth

You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear. Sammy Davis Jr.

Love is a choice you make from moment to moment. Barbara De Angelis

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

The choices we make every minute of every day can contribute to making someone’s life a little bit better or worse even without intending to. Chikamso Efobi

Did you know that to worry about a situation you are making a conscious choice to do so?  Mike C. Adams

Life is filled with difficult decisions, and winners are those who make them. Dan Brown

Remember, there are no mistakes, only lessons. Love yourself, trust your choices, and everything is possible. Cherie-Carter Scotts

We all need to decide whether to play it safe in life and worry about the downside, or instead take a chance, by being who we really are and living the life our heart desires. Which choice are you making? Charlie Badenhop

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

No matter what the situation, remind yourself, I have a choice. Deepak Chopra

What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life. Leo Buscaglia

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves. Thomas Merton

There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations. Jodi Picoult

Don’t base your decisions on the advice of those who don’t have to deal with the results. Anonymous

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

There are a lot of things going on with my life right now that don’t just have to do with career. So I have a hard time making decisions about work. That’s really a luxury problem. Philip Seymour Hoffman

We have a choice about how we take what happens to us in our life and whether or not we allow it to turn us. We can become consumed by hate and darkness, or we’re able to regain our humanity somehow, or come to terms with things and learn something about ourselves. Angelina Jolie

Once the decision is made, do not look back, do not second guess your decisions. Muhammad Ali

The choices we make determine our destiny. Brandon October

As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God’s design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings. Stockwell Day

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live. Omar Bradley

Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations. Tom Brady

A man is happy so long as he choose to be happy. Alexander Solzhenitsyn

You don’t choose because if you choose you might make the wrong choice, based upon ego or illusion. Instead, you let eternity make all the choices for you. Frederick Lenz

You are free to make whatever choice you want, but you are not free from the consequences of the choice.

There are only two choices: make progress or make excuses. Anonymous

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Every morning you have two choices: Continue to sleep with your dreams or wake up and chase your dreams. The choice is yours. Anonymous

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. Mae West

I choose to take charge of the rest of my life. Anonymous

Often people ask how I manage to be happy despite having no arms and no legs. The quick answer is that I have a choice. I can be angry about not having limbs, or I can be thankful that I have a purpose. I chose gratitude. Nick Vujicic

No temptation, no pressure, no enticing can overcome us unless we allow such. If we make the wrong choice, we have no one to blame but ourselves. Thomas S. Monson

Some of our important choices have a time line. If we delay a decision, the opportunity is gone forever. Sometimes our doubts keep us from making a choice that involves change. Thus an opportunity may be missed. James E. Faust

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward. Amelia Earhart

I didn’t try to intimidate anybody. I wanted to inform my employees of what their future would hold if they make the wrong decision. I wasn’t threatening any of the employees. If they vote for Obama they’re not going to lose their jobs. David A. Siegel

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Steve Jobs

Sometimes in life, you have to make decisions that are best for you, not for everyone else. Anonymous

You shape your future every day through the choices you make. That’s sort of a hard one to swallow, isn’t it? It would be much easier to say you are a victim of circumstances. Then you don’t have to act. Your choices create your reality. Jason Harvey

You don’t have to disrespect and insult others simply to hold your own ground. If you do, that shows how shaky your own position is. Red Haircrow

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction. Rachel Carson

I made the wrong choice,” I whispered. My mother shook her head. A child should never have to choose. Mitch Albom

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do things, we can accomplish those goals. Stephen Covey

It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped. Tony Robbins

I don’t believe in good human beings, but I believe you can have structures that make it easier to make the right choice or the wrong choice. Justin Welby

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen. Ralph Waldo Emerson

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. George Eliot

Every morning you have two choices: Continue to sleep with dreams or wake up and chase your dreams. The choice is yours…

Life is all about making choices. Always do your best to make the right ones, and always do your best to learn from the wrong ones. Anonymous

You can’t just wish change; you have to live the change in order for it to become a reality. Steve Maraboli

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Famous Quotes About Making Life Choices

There are two primary choices in life; to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them. Denis Waitley

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. Oscar Wilde

Life is a choice as is how you handle the pitfalls along its bumpy road. Julie Donner Andersen

Because if we make the wrong choice, then the danger is that we’ll get hit again, that we’ll be hit in a way that will be devastating from the standpoint of the United States, and that we’ll fall back into the pre-/ mindset if you will, that in fact, these terrorist attacks are just criminal acts, and that we’re not really at war. I think that would be a terrible mistake for us. Dick Cheney

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. Lao Tzu

Life is  percent what you make it, and  percent how you take it. Irving Berlin

Sometimes you have to choose between a bunch of wrong choices and no right ones. You just have to choose which wrong choices feels the least wrong. Colleen Hoover

Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments.  Rose Kennedy

Making a wrong choice early may limit making the right choice later. James E. Faust

Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality. Nikos Kazantzakis

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive. Dalai Lama XIV

Sometimes, making the wrong choice is better than making no choice. You have the courage to go forward, that is rare. A person who stands at the fork, unable to pick, will never get anywhere. Terry Goodkind

But difficult situations and wrong choices conspire to trap us in hopelessness. Judah Smith

Every choice you make has an end result. Zig Ziglar

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom. Leo Tolstoy

I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it’s only a choice of attitude. Judith M. Knowlton

I think in life, you have a choice. You can either be optimistic or pessimistic, and I go for the optimism. Jon Anderson

You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories. Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. Omar Khayyam

The more real you get the more unreal the world gets. John Lennon

Life is a matter of choices, and every choice you make makes you. John C. Maxwell

The hardest decisions in life are not between good and bad or right and wrong, but between two goods or two rights. Joe Andrew

Some people are cowards… I think by and large a third of people are villains, a third are cowards, and a third are heroes. Now, a villain and a coward can choose to be a hero, but they’ve got to make that choice. Tom Hanks

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I’m so lucky to have such a great family. I respect them so much professionally, and they’ve been unconditionally supportive in the choices that I’ve made. It’s been very good having them on my side. Jack Huston

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. Mark Twain

We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it’s a continuing choice. John C. Maxwell

Because you are women, people will force their thinking on you, their boundaries on you. They will tell you how to dress, how to behave, who you can meet and where you can go. Don’t live in the shadows of people’s judgement. Make your own choices in the light of your own wisdom. Amitabh Bachchan

You are only one decision from a totally different life. Anonymous

We can’t plan life. All we can do is be available for it. Lauryn Hill

There’s no one path. There’s every path. Every path starts with this one moment. Did you choose yourself for this moment? Can you be bold? Then all paths will lead to the same place. Right now. Dick Costolo

You must accept the reality of other people. You think that reality is up for negotiation, that we think it’s whatever you say it is. You must accept that we are as real as you are; you must accept that you are not God. J.K. Rowling

The man or woman who is wholly or joyously surrendered to Christ can’t make a wrong choice/any choice will be the right one. Aiden Wilson Tozer

In every single thing you do, you are choosing a direction. Your life is a product of choices. Dr. Kathleen Hall

We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely. E. O. Wilson

We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will. Chuck Palahniuk

Make and be confident in your own decisions. Stop looking for people’s approval for everything. Live your life and do what you want. Anonymous

Every life has a watershed moment, an instant when you realize you’re about to make a choice that will define everything else you ever do, and that if you choose wrong, there may not be that many things left to choose. Sometimes the wrong choice is the only one that lets you face the end with dignity, grace, and the awareness that you’re doing the right thing. I’m not sure we can recognize those moments until they’ve passed us. Mira Grant

Everything in your life is a reflection of a choice you have made. If you want a different result, make a different choice.

Humanity cannot afford to muddle through the rest of the twentieth century; the risks are too great, and the stakes are too high. This may be the last opportunity to choose our own and our descendants’ destiny. Failing to choose or making the wrong choices may lead to catastrophe. But it must never be forgotten that the right choices could lead to a much better world. John Holdren

Your life’s work determines your legacy and the impact that you have on the world. Germany Kent

You may have made a lot of wrong choices, but you’ve also made a lot of choices that were right. Focus on your good qualities. Focus on your victories. Get off the treadmill of guilt. Joel Osteen

If you chase two rabbits, both will escape. Unknown author

And we have complete control over our own attitude. We are the ones we decide how we feel, how we look at things, how we react. Catherine Pulsifer

Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach. Tony Robbins

Life is all about making choices. Always do your best to make the right ones, and always do your best to learn from the wrong ones.

I really do see that anywhere I am, whether it’s doing interviews a hundred in a row, that every situation I’m in, I’m at choice in the matter. Alanis Morissette

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. Robertson Davies

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Inspirational Choice Quotes about Life

Ignore the noise and follow your own choice. Anonymous

You came empty on earth, why overloaded now, were all your choices absolutely correct, it is never too late to reconsider them? William Ngwako Maphoto

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation. James Allen

When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny. Paulo Coelho

It’s choice not chance that determines your destiny. Jean Nidetch

You and only you are responsible for your life choices and decisions. Robert T. Kiyosaki

I believe we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom. Rosa Parks

Too much of the time, we are blinded by our own pursuits of people to love us, people that don’t even matter, while all that time we waste and the people who do love us have to stand on the sidewalk and watch us beg in the streets! It’s time to put an end to this. It’s time for us to let ourselves be loved. C. Joybell C.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals. Stephen Covey

The remarkable thing is, we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.  Charles R. Swindoll

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. Soren Kierkegaard

I think that there is something beautiful about mortality. It makes our decisions mean more. Brandon Boyd

I’ve never been satisfied or even pleased with a film that I’ve done. I make them, I’m finished, I’ve never looked at one after. I don’t like them because there’s a big gap between what you conceive in your mind when you’re writing and you don’t have to meet the test of reality. You’re home, you write and it’s funny and beautiful and romantic and dramatic, and then you have to show up on a cold morning, and you don’t have enough of this and this goes wrong and you make the wrong choice on something and you screwed up and you can’t go back. Woody Allen

Changing our decision sets up a bad habit. It reinforces decision-making as an expression of bewilderment and ignorance, instead of wisdom and freedom. Sakyong Mipham

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You can let things define you, destroy you, or strengthen you. It’s your choice. Anonymous

May your choices reflect your hopes not your fears. Nelson Mandela

I always find myself gravitating to the analogy of a maze. Think of film noir and if you picture the story as a maze, you don’t want to be hanging above the maze watching the characters make the wrong choices because it’s frustrating. You actually want to be in the maze with them, making the turns at their side, that keeps it more exciting…I quite like to be in that maze. Christopher Nolan

Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice. Fiona Apple

When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans. Ron Paul

A wise man makes his own decisions. An ignorant man follows public opinion. Chinese Proverb

When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision. Paulo Coelho

Big changes don’t have to be hard, but they do have to start with a choice. This is where real change begins; this is where you start taking control of your life and how you choose to live it; this is where it all starts. Nathalie Thompson

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. Neil Peart

You don’t get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd. Neil Gaiman

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. Dr. Seuss

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility. Oprah Winfrey

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

Each person has a choice; the choice to do as one may wish and as one wants remains with the individual. If a person sees no benefit to change, they will not change. Byron Pulsifer

Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated. Confucius

The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way. Alice Waters

I’m still not sure I made the right choice when I told my wife about the bakery attack. But then,it might not have been a question of right or wrong. Which is to say that wrong choices can produce right results and vice versa. I myself have adopted the position that, in fact, we never choose anything at all. Things happen. Or not. Haruki Murakami

Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision. Tony Robbins

Every test in our life makes us bitter or better, every problem comes to break us or make us. The choice is ours whether we become victim or victor. Anonymous

Nothing happens until you decide. Make a decision and watch your life move forward. Oprah Winfrey

One of the most important things that I have learned in my  years is that life is all about choices. On every journey you take, you face choices. At every fork in the road, you make a choice. And it is those decisions that shape our lives. Mike DeWine

If you live long enough, you’ll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you’ll be a better person. Bill Clinton

The choices that we make in our life, indeed determine the kind of results that we experience and the quality of the life that we live. Sumeet Jain

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Meaningful Quotes About Making Choices In Life

Some choices we make for people around and some decisions we take for thyself! Rachana Shakyawar

You will know you made the right decision when you pick the most hardest and most painful choice but your heart is at peace.

But parents, she supposed, were not the pinnacle of perfection their children thought or expected them to be. They were humans who usually did the best they could but often made the wrong choices. Mary Balogh

To get anywhere, or even to live a long time, a man has to guess, and guess right, over and over again, without enough data for a logical answer. Robert Heinlein

Looking back, I’m really happy with the choices I’ve made in my career. I know for a fact I could be wealthier. Who knows, maybe I could be more successful, maybe not. I don’t know. But just about every single thing I’ve ever done I’ve gone into with the right intentions, and that goes a long way. Paul Rudd

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. Ralph Waldo Emerson

In life, everybody faces choices between doing what’s popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what’s lonely, difficult, and right. These decisions intensify when you run a company because the consequences get magnified , fold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful. Ben Horowitz

God’s love for us is constant and will not diminish, but he cannot rescue us from the painful results that are caused by wrong choices. Marvin J. Ashton

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows. Buddha

It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are. Malala Yousafzai

You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear. Sammy Davis Jr

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live. Omar Bradley

We make our choices, then our choices make us. Anonymous

In every single thing you do, you are choosing a direction. Your life is a product of choices.  Dr. Kathleen Hall

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live. Samuel Johnson

When we find inspiration, we need to take action for ourselves and for our communities. Even if it means making a hard choice, or cutting out something and leaving it in your past. Aron Ralston

Unsuccessful people make decisions based on their current situation; successful people make decisions based on where they want to be. Anonymous

Destiny is not a 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

Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision. Tony Robbins

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back. Arthur Rubinstein

Tolkien made the wrong choice when he brought Gandalf back. Screw Gandalf. He had a great depth and the characters should have had to go on without him. George R. R. Martin

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose. Thornton Wilder

The biggest breakthroughs in consciousness occur when things are difficult; when we have a choice to fall to the worst of ourselves or rise to the best of ourselves. Yehuda Berg

Life is the sum of all your choices. Anonymous

Making the choice to live life is a daily sometimes minute by minute decision. Debbie Dickerson

I’ve failed a million times on stage. I’ve listened to notes that I knew weren’t right. I’ve pitched ideas and let other people change them, knowing that it was the wrong choice. The question you have to ask yourself is: How do you want to fail? Do you want to fail in a way that feels like it respects your tastes and value system? Amy Poehler

The problem, simply put, is that we cannot choose everything simultaneously. So we live in danger of becoming paralyzed by indecision, terrified that every choice might be the wrong choice. Elizabeth Gilbert

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The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms. Neal Boortz

You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.  W. Clement Stone

Parents are not the all-knowing, ideal people we would like you to think we are. We’ve made wrong choices before, and will again, like everyone else, .. But our mistakes are not the measure of our love for you. You are that measure, and how well you are prepared to make better choices than we have made. John McCain

Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain. To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it. Kevyn Aucoin

Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision. Anthony Robbins

Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it. Pat Riley

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them. Denis Waitley

Big changes don’t have to be hard, but they do have to start with a choice. This is where real change begins this is where you start taking control of your life and how you choose to live it this is where it all starts. Nathalie Thompson

A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one. Rita Mae Brown

Right now you are one choice away from a new beginning one that leads you toward becoming the fullest human being you can be. Oprah Winfrey

We are more often frightened than hurt, and we suffer more from imagination than from reality. Seneca

I’ve come to learn that the choices I labor over and go back and forth about and ask a million people for their opinions and make lists about those are always the wrong choices. Michelle Williams

You are the person who has to decide. Whether you’ll do it or toss it aside; you are the person who makes up your mind. Whether you’ll lead or will linger behind. Whether you’ll try for the goal that’s afar. Or just be contented to stay where you are. Edgar A. Guest

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. Robert Foster Bennett

It is our choices… that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. J. K. Rowling

You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself. W. Clement Stone

Without ethics, man has no future. This is to say, mankind without them cannot be itself. Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities. John Berger

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. Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Man’s power of choice enables him to think like an angel or a devil, a king or a slave. Whatever he chooses, mind will create and manifest. Frederick Bailes

Choices are the hinges of destiny. Edwin Markham

When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take, choose the bolder. William Joseph Slim

You are the CEO of your own life, start making executive decisions today. Stephen Luke

Life presents many choices, the choices we make determine our future. Catherine Pulsifer

The three C’s in life. Choices, Chances, Changes. You must make a choice to take a chance or your life will never change.

Every person has free choice. Free to obey or disobey the Natural Laws. Your choice determines the consequences. Alfred A. Montapert

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice! Dwight D. Eisenhower

Good decisions come from experience, and experience comes from bad decisions. Anonymous

Your life is a result of the choices you have made. If you don’t like your life, start making better choices. Zig Ziglar

It is not length of life, but depth of life. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Motivational Life Choices Quotes

Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that’s the one that is going to help you grow. Caroline Myss

I love people that work with passion and love. When you make choices that way, there’s reverberations, consequences. That’s what I’m interested in, that echo, that ripple of choice. Derek Cianfrance

I’ve learned that you have to make careful choices because everything has an impact. I’ve also learned that you can’t please everyone in life, so please yourself and figure out what really matters. Gretchen Bleiler

I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday. Elenor Roosevelt

The key to making healthy decisions is to respect your future self. Honor him or her, treat him or her like you would treat a friend or a loved one. A Stanford study showed that those who saw a photo of their future self made smarter financial decisions. A.J. Jacobs

A major life decision is never a choice but rather a realization that the decision has already been made. Doug Cooper

Where there is no decision there is no life. JJ Dewey

Life is about making an impact, not making an income. Kevin Kruse

Regardless of what you lose or the challenges you face, you will never lose your power to make decisions. Jacinta Mpalyenkana

Your life is a result of the choices you make… If you don’t like your life it is time to start making better choices.

Whatever you decide to do, make sure it makes you happy. Anonymous

Nothing ever becomes real ’til it is experienced. John Keats

If life were predictable it would cease to be life and be without flavor. Eleanor Roosevelt

Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway. Anonymous

Sometimes it’s the smallest decisions that can change your life forever. Anonymous

You’re only here for a short visit. Don’t hurry, don’t worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way. Walter Hagen

We all need to decide whether to play it safe in life and worry about the downside, or instead take a chance, by being who we really are and living the life our heart desires. Which choice are you making? Charlie Badenhop

You can be a thousand different women. It’s your choice which one you want to be. It’s about freedom and sovereignty. You celebrate who you are. You say, ‘This is my kingdom.’ Salma Hayek

You cannot make progress without making decisions. Jim Rohn

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

The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane. Mahatma Gandhi

You just have to choose which wrong choice feels the least wrong. Colleen Hoover

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. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

Every moment is a fresh beginning. T.S. Eliot

Never let hard lessons harden your heart; the hard lessons of life are meant to make you better, not bitter. Roy T. Bennett

In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take and the decisions we waited to make. Anonymous

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. Friedrich Nietzsche

Talent allows people to stand out, but their wrong choices make them sit down. John C. Maxwell

Every choice you make has an end result. Zig Ziglar

The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim. Sun Tzu

Decision is a sharp knife that cuts clean and straight; indecision, a dull one that hacks and tears and leaves ragged edges behind it. Gordon Graham

As a rider, you must slowly and methodically show your horse what is appropriate. You also have to discourage what’s inappropriate, not by making the inappropriate impossible, but by making it difficult so that the horse himself chooses appropriate behavior. You can’t choose it for him; you can only make it difficult for him to make the wrong choices. If, however, you make it impossible for him to make the wrong choices, you’re making war. Buck Brannaman

Unnecessary fear of a bad decision is a major stumbling block to good decisions. Jun Camp

Because to take away a man’s freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were a puppet and not a person. Madeleine L’Engle

To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for. Henry Van Dyke

In this new era, you have two choices: become a temp staffer (not a horrible choice) or become an artist-entrepreneur. Choose to commoditize your labor or choose yourself to be a creator, an innovator, an artist, an investor, a marketer, and an entrepreneur. James Altucher

You create your own reality. Jane Roberts

Make the wrong choices now and future generations will live with a changed climate, depleted resources and without the green space and biodiversity that contribute both to our standard of living and our quality of life Tony Blair

The best portion of a good man’s life is his little nameless, unencumbered acts of kindness and of love. Wordsworth

If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Everything in your life is a reflection of a choice you have made. If you want a different result, make a different choice. Anonymous

Why do we have to listen to our hearts? Because, wherever your heart is, that is where you all find your treasure. Paulo Coelho

Dangerous thing, giving humanity the knowledge of good and evil. And the capacity to make the wrong choice more often than not. Lawrence Block

As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices, by making the most of the talents we’ve been given. Mary Lou Retton

Once you declare your loyalty to a team, every person who doesn’t support that team, it’s their job to ruin you, to tell you you’re an idiot and to tell you that you made the wrong choice. Mark Hoppus

You couldn’t hide from bad things and pretend they didn’t exist, that left you with a dream world, and dream worlds eventually crumble. You had to face the truth. And then decide what you wanted.  Sarah Cross

People say I make strange choices, but they’re not strange for me. My sickness is that I’m fascinated by human behavior, by what’s underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people. Johnny Depp

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. Albert Einstein

Everyone makes mistakes in life, but that doesn’t mean they have to pay for them for the rest of their life. Sometimes good people make bad choices. It doesn’t mean they’re bad, it means they’re humans. Anonymous

Your choices are made in a moment, and yet their consequences transcend a lifetime. MJ DeMarco

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen. John F. Kennedy

Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be. Jack Welch

Sometimes you simply made the wrong choice and you had to live with it. You could only change the future. Kristin Hannah

Your attitude plus your choices equals your life. Anonymous

If God is the Creator of all things and evil is a thing, then God is the Creator of evil and He is to be blamed for its existence. No, evil is not a thing but a wrong choice, or the damage done by a wrong choice. Evil is no more a positive thing than blindness is, but it is just as real. Peter Kreeft

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. Robert Louis Stevenson

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one. Dolly Parton

If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much. Jim Rohn

Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant. Anthony Robbins

Any decision I make is the biggest decision of my life. Carmelo Anthony

In my experience working with a variety of people over several decades, far too many individuals choose to be anonymous members of the pack, therefore suffering from the inner remorse that makes them feel like failures, filled with conflict and resentment and wondering what the meaning of life is. Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action. John Dewey

When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It’s all a matter of perspective. Harvey Mackay

Life is a matter of choices, and every choice you make makes you. John C. Maxwell

I believe we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

The dreams we are chasing and the reality that is chasing us are always parallel; they never meet. Ai Yazawa

Sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the same. Anonymous

Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline. Jim Collins

If you’re a good choice maker, you can choose the best emotional responses and choose the best new life paths, forward and upward. Karen Salmansohn

I’ve seen many actors go awry by making the wrong choices early on. Rose McGowan

No choice is the wrong choice as long as you make a choice. The only wrong choice is choosing not to make one. Jake Abel

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change direction overnight. Jim Rohn

Life is a beautiful journey and best wise quotes can give the wisdom for meaningful life, positive outlook, self-love and success.