Quotes about Choices

I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for that one. It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route, and make a beaten track for ourselves.

This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one center.

You have to be able to face losing some things you might want in order to be free to do the right thing.

To be truly happy is a question of how we begin, and not how we end, of what we want and not what we have.

You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage — pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically — to say 'no' to other things. And the way to do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good.'

I've slept with a couple of people and made some poor choices and put things in jeopardy with... what I was happy with, and that's my own fault. I've got no one else to blame about that stuff.

I think that God gives you your own will and choices. I don't believe that we're supposed to drag ourselves through life defeated and not see God's blessings. But you have to make the right choices and follow that still, small voice within you. Because I think that's how God leads us.

The high cost of low living.

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

How you live your life on this side of the grave determines what happens next.

Character is the result of two things: Mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

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 responsibility.