Choice
She has a choice. She can either accept a life of misery or she can struggle against it. And she chooses to struggle…she fails in the end but there’s something beautiful and even heroic in her rebellion.
Author: Kate WinsletTopics: Accept, Choice, Famous
We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place–or not to bother.
Author: Jane GoodallTopics: Choice, Famous
Fear is not real. It is a product of thoughts you create. Do not misunderstand me. Danger is very real. But fear is a choice.
Author: Akshay KumarTopics: Choice, Famous, Fears
Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.
Author: Amitabh BachchanTopics: Choice, Famous, Positive
When you are surrounded by people who are much better than you, you have two choices: You can sh*t the bed, and the performance can go to hell. Or you can step up and rise to the occasion.
Author: John CenaTopics: Benefits, Choice, Famous
In the end, it’s all about the freedom of choice and empowerment.
Author: Beyonce KnowlesTopics: Choice, Famous, Freedom
A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational
Author: Thomas AquinasTopics: Choice, Famous, Feelings, Free, Life, Meaningful, Rational
Man has free choice, or otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards and punishments would be in vain
Author: Thomas AquinasTopics: Choice, Command, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Punishment
It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Choice, Complicated, Famous, Laws, People, Read, Understood
I always ran very fast and jumped very high but when I was about thirteen it was more of a choice between football and tennis, and I went for tennis.
Author: Gael MonfilsTopics: Choice, Choose, Famous, Fast, Football, Personal Preferences, Running, Soccer, Sport, Tennis
I never made the choice to be an actor. It just sort of happened to me when I was a kid, for whatever reasons that are irrelevant in this moment.
Author: Gaby HoffmannTopics: Actors, Choice, Famous, Irrelevant, Moment, Never, Reason
You have to choose whether to take the money or follow your own ambitions, playing in the best league in the world and winning titles.
Author: Harry KaneTopics: Choice, Choose, Famous, League, Money, Playing, Titles, Winning, World
We are still in the position of waking up and having a choice. Do I make the world better today somehow, or do I not bother?
Author: Tom HanksTopics: Choice, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Position, Waking, World
I have been getting offers from international artistes for collaboration all across the globe, but I prefer to work with Indian artistes.
Author: Kailash KherTopics: Choice, Collaboration, Famous, Indian artistes, International, Offer, Opportunities, Personal Preferences
Modeling is really what I do during my free time. It’s fun for me, so it doesn’t feel like work. I choose to do it.
Author: Kaia GerberTopics: Choice, Choose, Famous, Free time, Fun, Modeling, Personal Enjoyment, Personal Feelings, Personal Fulfillment, Work
People have to make journeys, what we want is people to have alternatives in public transport so that they can make a choice about the sort of way in which they’re going to travel
Author: Theresa MayTopics: Choice, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Journey, Meaningful
Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution
Author: Theophile GautierTopics: Choice, Famous, Invention, Life, Meaningful, Perpetual
Where I play is not for me to decide.
Author: K. L. RahulTopics: Choice, Decide, Famous, Personal Preferences, Self-control, Self-Decision
I never sort of really regret anything because you make your choices and I like to stand by them.
Author: Tim BurtonTopics: Choice, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Regret, Stand
If I had a choice about going to a meeting at a studio or changing a nappy, I’d choose the nappy
Author: Tim BurtonTopics: Choice, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Meetings, Nappy
If I had a choice about going to a meeting at a studio or changing a nappy, I’d choose the nappy.
Author: Tim BurtonTopics: Choice, Famous, Feelings, Meaningful, Meetings, Studio
Within the microblock-size range, larger blocks enable faster assembly, while smaller blocks enable finer-grained customization, and there’s no reason to limit choices to a single size.
Author: K. Eric DrexlerTopics: Choice, Famous, Limited, Microblock-size, Revolution
Prejudice, like the spider, makes everywhere its home. It has neither taste nor choice of place, and all that it requires is room. If the one prepares her food by poisoning it to her palate and her use, the other does the same. Prejudice may be denominated the spider of the mind
Author: Thomas PaineTopics: Choice, Famous, Feelings, Food, Home, Mind, Poisoning, Prejudice, Requires, Room, Taste
Every market has some rules and boundaries that restrict freedom of choice. A market looks free only because we so unconditionally accept its underlying restrictions that we fail to see them.
Author: Ha-Joon ChangTopics: Accept, Choice, Fail, Famous, Freedom, Looks, Market, Restriction, Underlying
To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not
Author: Thomas PaineTopics: Choice, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Freedom, Loaded, Meaningful, Poverty
To be ordinary is not a choice: It is the usual freedom of men without visions.
Author: Thomas MertonTopics: Choice, Famous, Feelings, Freedom, Life, Love, Meaningful, Men, Ordinary, Positive, Visions, Without
We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves
Author: Thomas MertonTopics: Choice, Deepest, Famous, Feelings, Fulfilling, Life, Meaningful, Real, Selves
Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.
Author: H. L. MenckenTopics: Choice, Famous, Life
It’s mainly been the case where I do very few live action roles – not out of choice but more out of not getting asked.
Author: H. Jon BenjaminTopics: Action, Choice, Famous
The greatest task of democracy, its ritual and feast – is choice.
Author: H. G. WellsTopics: Choice, Democracy, Famous, Feasts, Greatest, Inspirational, Ritual, Task
The choice is: the Universe…or nothing.
Author: H. G. WellsTopics: Choice, Famous, Nothing, Universe
I knew I wanted to do something creative, and you don’t necessarily go to Harvard to do that. It’s not the best choice for creative writing.
Author: Gabrielle ZevinTopics: Choice, Creative, Famous, Harvard, Know, Wanted
Choosing love will bring you great joy and great happiness—that happiness is a choice you make.
Author: Gabrielle BernsteinTopics: Choice, Choosing, Famous, Great, Happiness, Inspirational, Joy, Love
The more you retrain yourself to choose happiness over fear, the more blissful you will be.
Author: Gabrielle BernsteinTopics: Choice, Famous, Fear, Happiness, Inspirational
Choosing love will bring you great joy and great happiness – that happiness is a choice you make
Author: Gabrielle BernsteinTopics: Choice, Choosing, Famous, Great, Happiness, Inspirational, Joy, Love
I’ve been hounded by a reputation of being difficult when really what I’m being is truthful and honest. And I think that’s been a thorn in my side. I auditioned for a lot of work and got some good feedback, and then was told I wasn’t the choice.
Author: Gabrielle AnwarTopics: Choice, Difficult, Famous, Feedback, Honest, Inspirational, Reputation, Thorns, Work
If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
Topics: Choice, Choose, Experiences, Famous, Inspirational, Leaders, Leads, Lesson, Letting, Life, Meaningful, Peace
I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
Author: Thomas JeffersonTopics: Choice, Dangerous, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Freedom, Independence, Liberty, Life, Meaningful, Peaceful, Personal Autonomy, Positive, Preference, Risks, Slavery
If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
Topics: Choice, Choose, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Peace, Peace of mind, Positive
You always have a choice.
Author: Gabriel MachtTopics: Always, Choice, Famous, Having, Inspirational
We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize
Author: Thich Nhat HanhTopics: Choice, Expansion, Exploration, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Moment, Option, Positive, Possibilities, Potential, Realize
What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead.
Topics: Choice, Famous, Good Life, Lesson, Letting go, Life, Meaningful, Responsibilities, Responsible choices, Resposible, Simplicity, Simply
You can choose to be free , but it’s last decision you’ll ever make
Author: Franz Kafka
Topics: Choice, Choose, Famous, Feelings, Freedom, Freedom of expression, Life, Meaningful, Suffer
Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
Author: Franklin D. RooseveltTopics: Choice, Choose, Democracy, Education, Express, Famous, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Reads, Real, Wisdom, Wise
Greenlight is a bad example of an election process. We came to the conclusion pretty quickly that we could just do away with Greenlight completely, because it was a bottleneck rather than a way for people to communicate choice
Author: Gabe NewellTopics: Choice, Conclusions, Discussion, Famous, Greenlight, Ineffectiveness, People, Process, Shortcoming
Greenlight is a bad example of an election process. We came to the conclusion pretty quickly that we could just do away with Greenlight completely, because it was a bottleneck rather than a way for people to communicate choice.
Author: Gabe Newell
Topics: Choice, Communication, Famous, Greenlight, People
Pleasure is the first good. It is the beginning of every choice and every aversion. It is the absence of pain in the body and of troubles in the soul.
Author: EpictetusTopics: Absence, Choice, Famous, Good, Inspirational, Life, Lord, Meaningful, Pain, Personal belief, Philosopher, Pleasure, Soul, Strong desire, Troubles
The pleasant life is not produced by continual drinking and dancing, nor sexual intercourse, nor rare dishes of sea food and other delicacies of a luxurious table. On the contrary, it is produced by sober reasoning which examines the motives for every choice and avoidance, driving away beliefs which are the source of mental disturbances.
Author: EpicurusTopics: Choice, Dancing, Drinking, Driving, Examined, Famous, Inspirational, Life, Luxurious, Meaningful, Mental, Motives, Pleasant, Produced, Rare, Reasoning, Sea food, Sexual
The blue-sided human will choose a side. When four princes are born on the same day, they will rule true. Her saviour will die when the choice is made.
Author: G. W. BaileyTopics: Choice, Famous, Human, Inspirational, Princes, Rule, Savior, True
Passion is a choice. You need to choose to be great. It’s not a chance, it’s a choice.
Author: Eliud KipchogeTopics: Choice, Choose, Famous, Great, Inspirational, Meaningful, Motivational, Passion
The tree on the mountain takes whatever the weather brings. If it has any choice at all, it is in putting down roots as deeply as possible
Author: Corrie Ten BoomTopics: Bring, Bringing hope, Choice, Deeply, Mountains, Possible, Roots, Tree
By your choice dwell you now in the world which you have created. What you hold in your heart shall be true, and what you most admire, that shall you become.
Author: Richard BachTopics: Admire, Choice, Created, Famous, Heart, True, World
We have a choice. We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That’s it. Conversation and violence. And faith is a conversation stopper
Author: Christopher HitchensTopics: Choice, Choose, Circles, Famous, Feelings, Huge, Human, Human behavior, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Stop, Stopping, Violence, Violent
To be an atheist is a matter not of moral choice but of human obligation
Author: Christopher HitchensTopics: Choice, Choosing, Famous, Feelings, Huge, Human, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Moral, Moral character, Objective world, Objects, Obligation
We have a choice. We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That’s it. Conversation and violence. And faith is a conversation stopper.
Author: Christopher HitchensTopics: Choice, Choosing, Human, Human activities, Human behavior, Human Being, Optimism, Option, Order
Long-term relationships are an everyday choice. It’s harder to be in a marriage than it is to bounce from one relationship to the next.
Author: PinkTopics: Choice, Everyday, Famous, Harder, Long-Term, Marriage, Relationships
If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we’d rather be alive and have the bad image.
Author: Golda MeirTopics: Choice, Famous, Humorous
Right, I’ll get you more pumpkin and I’ll ram it right up your fucking arse. Would you like it whole or diced?
Author: Gordon RamsayTopics: Choice, Insult, Pumpkin
The future is a choice between Utopia and oblivion.
Author: R. Buckminster FullerTopics: Choice, Famous, Meaningful
Defeat ends when we launch into another battle. Failure has no end: it is a lifetime choice.
Author: Paulo CoelhoTopics: Choice, Defeat, Failure, Famous, Launch, Lifetime
The glory of the world is transitory, and we should not measure our lives by it, but by the choice we make to follow our personal legend, to believe in our utopias and to fight for our dreams.
Author: Paulo CoelhoTopics: Choice, Dreams, Famous, Fight, Glory, Legend, Measure, Personal, Utopias, World
If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him.
Author: Paulo CoelhoTopics: Choice, Famous, Life, Meaningful, Pain, Possible
Mankind is at its best when it is most free. This will be clear if we grasp the principle of liberty. We must recall that the basic principle is freedom of choice, which saying many have on their lips but few in their minds.
Author: Dante AlighieriTopics: Choice, Famous, Free, Freedom, Grasp, Liberty, Lips, Mankind, Meaningful, Minds, Principles
You make a choice to win and you win.
Author: Charlie SheenTopics: Choice, Choosing, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Make, Making a Decision, Meaningful, Wisdom
Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
Author: Helen KellerTopics: Choice, Determined, Famous, Happiness, Inspirational, Personal responsibility, Powerful Message, Powerful motivation, Success
The only thing I have to do in life is die. Everything else is a choice… including breathing.
Author: G-DragonTopics: Choice, Death, Everything, Famous, Inspirational, Life
The pursuit of happiness is a matter of choice.
Author: Charles R. SwindollTopics: Choice, Happiness, Happy, Matter, Mature, Personal choice, Pursuit, Push
The Germans are the only decent people left in Europe. It’s a choice between them and the Russians, I prefer the Germans.
Author: George S. PattonTopics: Choice, Europe, Famous, Inspirational, Left, Preferences
I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become
Author: Carl JungTopics: Choice, Choose, Famous, Happen, Happenings, Lesson, Life
One must choose between God and Man, and all “radicals” and “progressives”, from the mildest liberal to the most extreme anarchist, have in effect chosen Man.
Author: George OrwellTopics: Choice, Famous, Inspirational, Radicals and Progressives, Variety
The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
Author: George OrwellTopics: Choice, Famous, Freedom, Happiness, Inspirational, Mankind
Today we no longer have a choice between violence and nonviolence; it is either nonviolence or nonexistence.
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.Topics: Choice, Famous, Meaningful, Today
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.
Author: Martin LutherTopics: Choice, Famous, Frankly, Free, Meaningful, Possible, Salvation, Wish
You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice.
Author: Bob MarleyTopics: Choice, Motivational, Motive, Strong
I had to make a choice at one point in my life, of missing films or missing my children. It was a very easy decision to make because I missed my children so very much.
Author: Audrey HepburnTopics: Child, Choice, Decision, Famous, Film, Life
You have two choices: You can come down from the mountain and spend the rest of your days thinking it was so beautiful there, or you can create a vision, look upward, see the next mountain, and start the climb all over again.
Author: Oprah WinfreyTopics: Choice, Choices, Climb, Create, Created, Mount, Mountains, Spend, Visions
The whole trend and quality of anyone’s life is determined in the long run by the choices that are made.
Author: Norman Vincent PealeTopics: Choice, Famous, Life, Meaningful, Quality, Trend
When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.
Author: Nelson MandelaTopics: Choice, Famous, Life, Meaningful, Right
If capital is privately controlled, then people are going to have to sell themselves in order to survive. Now, you can say, “they rent themselves freely, it’s a free contract” – but that’s a joke. If your choice is, “do what I tell you or starve”, that’s not a choice – it’s infact what was commonly referred to as ‘wage slavery’ in more civilized times, like the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Author: Noam ChomskyTopics: Centuries, Century, Choice, Contract, Freely, Survived, Survives, Themselves
As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise human science is at a loss.
Author: Noam ChomskyTopics: Choice, Decision, Reason, Science
Science is a bit like the joke about the drunk who is looking under a lamppost for a key that he has lost on the other side of the street, because that’s where the light is. It has no other choice.
Author: Noam ChomskyTopics: Choice, Drunk, Light, Lost, Science, Streets
Sometimes we can choose the paths we follow. Sometimes our choices are made for us. And sometimes we have no choice at all.
Author: Neil GaimanTopics: Choice, Choose, Famous, Inspirational, Meaningful
We had no choice but to stay positive and carry on.
Author: Michelle ObamaTopics: Choice, Famous, Feelings, Meaningful, Positive
I’m The Voice, but the system ain’t give me a choice.
Author: Lil DurkTopics: Choice, Famous, Opportunity, System, Voice
Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices. Then our choices make us
Author: Anne FrankTopics: Choice, Famous, Feelings, Life, Live
Most of the night I just thought about how quickly I want to adopt again. It’s a very special thing. There’s something about making a choice, waking up and traveling somewhere and finding your family.
Author: Angelina JolieTopics: Choice, Famous, Feelings, Life, Night, Quickly
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.
Author: Angelina JolieTopics: Choice, Dark, Famous, Feelings, Happen, Hate, Humanity, Learn, Life
Make bold choices and make mistakes. It’s all those things that add up to the person you become.
Author: Angelina JolieTopics: Choice, Famous, Feelings, Life, Mistake, Things
Like every parent, when you start your family, your life completely changes. And you completely live for someone else. I find that the most extraordinary thing. Your life is handed over to someone else. From that moment on, they come first in every choice you make. It’s the most wonderful thing.
Author: Angelina JolieTopics: Change, Choice, Experiences, Family, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Parents, Someone, Things
The shift to a cleaner energy economy wont happen overnight, and it will require tough choices along the way. But the debate is settled. Climate change is a fact.
Author: Barack ObamaTopics: Choice, Energy, Famous, Inspirational, Meaningful, Positive
I can never be your friend because of my lost tail, nor you mine because of your lost child
Author: AesopTopics: Absence, Child, Choice, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Never, Never Ending, Trust
I dress to be as comfortable as I possibly can. Most of my clothing is either black, grey, or dark blue, and I don’t really wear a lot of colors. But I do like jackets. I have a little bit of an obsession with them.
Author: Leonardo Di CaprioTopics: Choice, Comfortable, Jackets, Obsession, Personal Desire
If I want to go to a party with a few male friends, it doesn’t mean I’m gay.
Author: Leonardo Di CaprioTopics: Choice, Courage, Experiences, Famous, Male friends, Party, Personal Identity, Personal Life, Personal Preferences
Drugs? Every one has a choice and I choose not to do drugs.
Author: Leonardo Di CaprioTopics: Choice, Drugs, Famous, Inspirational, Motivational, Personal Preferences
Don’t let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth – don’t let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency
Author: AesopTopics: Ability, Access, Character, Choice, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Great, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Personal Values, Speak, Special, True Self, Truth
When you have made your choice, it is providence that is your guide. Good, bad, or indifferent. Your fate lies in that.
Author: Morgan FreemanTopics: Choice, Famous, Fate, Good, Lies, Providence
To be free is not to have the power to do anything you want; to be free is to be able to make the right choice
Author: AeschylusTopics: Choice, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Free, Freedom, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Power, Powerful, Right, Shave
The biggest part of my fashion choices is how comfortable it is.
Author: L'Wren ScottTopics: Choice, Comfortable, Famous, Meaningful, Motivational, Sense Of Fashion
In politics, everybody is free to choose his friends and allies.
Author: Lalu Prasad YadavTopics: Choice, Choose, Famous, Free, Freedom, Friend, Politics, Positive
I would rather die than have my fans see me without a pair of heels on. And that’s show business.
Author: Lady GagaTopics: Choice, Die, Famous, Fans, Feeling, Heels, Preferences
I realized that part of my identity is saying no to things I don’t wanna do. … It is your right to choose what you do and don’t do. It is your right to choose what you believe in and don’t believe in. It is your right to curate your life and your own perspective.
Topics: Choice, Empowered, Famous, Personal Identity, Personal Preferences, Realization, RealizedPain doesn’t listen to reason, it has its own reason, which is not reasonable.
Author: Milan KunderaTopics: Choice, Creatures, Facts, Feeling, Life, Reason
Doesn’t the art of the novel, with its feel for the relativity of human truths, require that the author’s opinion stay out of sight and that all thinking be left to the reader alone?
Author: Milan KunderaTopics: Acknowledgement, Alone, Choice, Circumstances, Desire, Determined, Falling, Humanity, Lesson, Life, Novel, Opinion
Cause it’s a hard life, with love in the world. And I’m a hard girl, loving me is like chewing on pearls.
Author: Lady GagaTopics: Challenging, Choice, Complexities, Embrace, Emotion, Express, Famous, Feelings, Hard Time, Impossible, Individuality, Life, Meaningful, Personality, Perspective, Self Belief, Self-Worth, Strength
I always look forward to playing for my national team, especially at a major tournament
Author: Luca ModricTopics: Choice, Commitment, Competition, Contributions, Country, Dedication, Experiences, Famous, Focused, Football, Glorious, Importance, Inspirational, Interest, Love, Meaningful, Motivational, National Team, Passionate, Positive, Prestigious Events, Respect, Significance, Success, Team, Victory
When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.
Author: Milan KunderaTopics: Ability, Choice, Feelings, Heart, Unique
Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
Author: Milan KunderaTopics: Acknowledgement, Change, Choice, Courage, Education, Energy, Express, Facts, Honour, Relationship
The only relationship that can make both partners happy is one in which sentimentality has no place and neither partner makes any claim on the life and freedom of the other.
Author: Milan KunderaTopics: Care, Choice, Confession, Connection, Expectation, Expected, Facts, Life
The basketball court for me, during a game, is the most peaceful place I can imagine. On the basketball court, I worry about nothing. When I’m out there, no one can bother me.
Author: Michael JordanTopics: Acknowledgement, Career, Challenge, Chance, Choice, Competition, Confidence, Connection, Creative, Dedication, Desire, Emotion, Express, Feeling, Focus, Focused, Football, Footballer, Happiness, Magic, Sports, Talent, Understanding
I’ve never been afraid to fail.
Author: Michael JordanTopics: Ability, Acknowledgement, Challenge, Choice, Courage, Facts, Failure, Fear, Losing, Strength