Our Choices Quotes - Page 3

• ...love is the sum of our choices, the strength of our commitments, the ties that bind us together.

  Emily Giffin

  Commitment, Love Is, Ties

  Emily Giffin (2008). “Love the One You're With”, p.351, Macmillan

  31 Copy quote

  Show source

• There's no attempt to manipulate the audience. We made our choice at the start.

  Stephen Hopkins

  Choices, Manipulation, Made

  4 Copy quote

• In order to align your life choices with your values, you will need to inquire about the effects of your actions (and inactions) on yourself and others. Although we are always stumbling upon new knowledge that shifts our choices and life direction, bringing conscious inquiry to life means that we continually ask questions that lead us to the information we need to make thoughtful decisions. Asking questions is liberating because we develop great understanding and discover more choices with our new knowledge

  Zoe Weil

  Mean, Thoughtful, Asking Questions

  Zoe Weil (2009). “Most Good, Least Harm: A Simple Principle for a Better World and Meaningful Life”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• What we do, our choices, that's what defines us

  Carrie Jones

  Choices

  Carrie Jones (2011). “Entice”, p.33, A&C Black

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• There are two ways to look at most problems... 'Oh Crap!' or, 'Good Information!,' and our choice will give us good information on how to deal with problems in the future.

  Bill Crawford

  Two, Giving, Choices

  4 Copy quote

• In a true community we will not choose our companions, for our choices are so often limited by self-serving motives. Instead, our companions will be given to us by grace. Often they will be persons who will upset our settled view of self and world. In fact, we might define true community as the place where the person you least want to live with always lives

  Parker J. Palmer

  Self, Views, Choices

  9 Copy quote

• No one can make us angry. It is our choice.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Choices, Angry

  4 Copy quote

• We need to make a game out of earning money. There is so much good we can do with money. Without it, we are bound and shackled and our choices become limited.

  Bob Proctor

  Money, Games, Choices

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Apr 25, 2017

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• We all create the person we become by our choices as we go through life. In a real sense, by the time we are adults, we are the sum total of the choices we have made.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Real, Choices, Accountability

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.151, Westminster John Knox Press

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• Um," Grover said. "Percy?" "Yeah?" "I thought you'd want to know." "Yeah?" "Cerberus? He's saying we've got ten seconds to pray to the god of our choice.After that...well...he's hungry.

  Rick Riordan

  Choices, Cerberus, Want

  10 Copy quote

• The pleasure is our choice.

  Esther Hicks

  Inspirational, Law Of Attraction, Choices

  4 Copy quote

• Desires dictate our priorities, priorities shape our choices, and choices determine our actions.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Priorities In Life, Choices, Desire

  "Desire". The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Website, www.lds.org. April 2011.

  59 Copy quote

  Show source

• Yeah, but our choices are limited. We choose from a list that they chose for us." She said. "Well, Choices are supposed to be limited. That's life" I snapped

  Lauren Oliver

  Choices, Lists, Yeah

  4 Copy quote

• It's absolutely crucial that we come face to face with the power of our choices.

  Rob Bell

  Choices, Faces, Crucial

  7 Copy quote
• 

  It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil.

  Aristotle

  Character, Evil, Choices

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.58, Wordsworth Editions

  213 Copy quote

  Show source

• What kind of nation we will be, what kind of world we will live in, whether we shape the future in the image of our hopes, is ours to determine by our actions and our choices.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Presidential, Choices, Our Actions

  Nixon, Richard M. (1971). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1969”, p.1, Best Books on

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We’re products of our choices.

  Susane Colasanti

  Choices, Products

  Susane Colasanti (2012). “Keep Holding On”, p.103, Penguin

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Our society has very much limited our choices, even regarding the food we think acceptable.

  Alix Kates Shulman

  Thinking, Choices, Our Society

  4 Copy quote

• Because it's our choices that makes us who we are.

  Jeff Kinney

  Choices, Who We Are

  Jeff Kinney (2012). “Diary of a Wimpy Kid”, p.189, Abrams

  47 Copy quote

  Show source

• One way we exercise political freedom is to vote for the candidate of our choice. Another way is to use our money to try to persuade other voters to make a similar choice - that is, to contribute to our candidate's campaign. If either of these freedoms is violated, the consequences are very grave not only for the individual voter and contributor, but for the society whose free political processes depend on a wide distribution of political power.

  Barry Goldwater

  Exercise, Political, Choices

  11 Copy quote

• Love isn't logical, or even our choice. Love chooses us. Sometimes things have to get worse before they get better.

  Susane Colasanti

  Choices, Get Better, Sometimes

  8 Copy quote

• The past is a rich resource on which we can draw in order to make decisions for the future, but it does not dictate our choices. We should look back at the past and select what is good, and leave behind what is bad.

  Nelson Mandela

  Past, Order, Choices

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.265, Pan Macmillan

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• The key to our transformation is simply this: the better we know ourselves the better equipped we will be to make our choices wisely.

  Gregg Braden

  Keys, Choices, Transformation

  Gregg Braden (2015). “Resilience from the Heart: The Power to Thrive in Life's Extremes”, p.20, Hay House, Inc

  49 Copy quote

  Show source

• In the end, we are our choices.

  Jeff Bezos

  Choices, Ends

  "2010 Baccalaureate Remarks". Commencement speech at Princeton University, www.princeton.edu. May 30, 2010.

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• There are times when we can blame a situation on others, but we own our reactions to them. There comes a point where we are the ones responsible for our choices and excuses don’t carry weight anymore.

  Penelope Douglas

  Choices, Weight, Blame

  4 Copy quote