200 Inspirational Choice Quotes about Life and Decisions

These inspirational choice quotes will remind you of how important the choices we make in life are.

In the comments below, share which quote you thought was the most inspiring.

Many of us don’t understand the importance of the choices that we make, or the power that we have over them.

Too often, people attribute what is good to external causes, and what is bad to internal ones.

By this I mean, we feel like the good things happen to us, and the bad things are our fault.

What we need to realize is that each and every day, we make numerous choices that influence the outcome of all areas of our lives.

We can learn from our missteps, and we can build on our strengths.

To remind you on the importance of making decisions, here are some inspirational, wise, and thought-provoking choice quotes, choice sayings, and choice proverbs.

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Choice Quotes About Life and Words of Wisdom

1. “Life presents many choices, the choices we make determine our future.” – Catherine Pulsifer

Choice Quotes About Future

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2. “May your choices reflect your hopes not your fears.” – Nelson Mandela

Choice Quotes About Hopes

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

Choice Quotes About Attitude

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

Choice Quotes About Choosing Right

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

Choice Quotes About Pitfalls

6. “You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.” – Sammy Davis Jr.

Choice Quotes About Fears

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7. “Every choice you make has an end result.” – Zig Ziglar

Choice Quotes About Results

8. “Any decision I make is the biggest decision of my life.” – Carmelo Anthony

Choice Quotes About Big Decisions

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

Choice Quotes About Situations

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10. “Every day brings new choices.”  -Martha Beck

Choice Quotes About New Opportunities

11. “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

Choice Quotes About Goals

12. “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

Choice Quotes About Circumstances

13. “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

Choice Quotes About Desires

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

Choice Quotes About Commitment

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15. “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

Choice Quotes About Career

16. “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

Choice Quotes About Reconsideration

17. “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

Choice Quotes About Holding Power

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Quotes About Choices and Consequences

18. “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

Choice Quotes About Quality of Life

19. “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

Choice Quotes About Making Life Better

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

Choice Quotes About Right Directions

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

Choice Quotes to Help You Make Decisions

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22. “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

Choice Quotes About Having Control

23. “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

Insightful Choice Quotes

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24. “By knowing that you can fail and making the choice to take the risk you will be setting yourself up for success and not failure.” – Jennifer N. Smith

Choice Quotes About Risking

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25. “Addicts cannot change the abuse suffered in childhood. They cannot undo the choices they have made or the hurt they have caused. But they can change the future – through the power they have in the present moment.” – Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman

Choice Quotes About Addiction

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26. “Most of the choices we make each day may feel like the products of well-considered decision making, but they’re not. They’re habits. And though each habit means relatively little on its own, over time, the meals we order, what we say to our kids each night, whether we save or spend, how often we exercise, and the way we organize our thoughts and work routines have enormous impacts on our health, productivity, financial security, and happiness.” – Charles Duhigg

27. “Expanding our capacity to talk, particularly when we face critical choices, is a life-enhancing skill. I believe that there is no faster way for us to evolve than through the process of interacting with one another.” – Sarah Rozenthuler

28. “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

29. “How you react emotionally is a choice in any situation—and those cumulative choices can make or break your chances for well-being.” – Judith Orloff

30. “Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.

More choice quotes and sayings

31. “If you don’t have the information you need to make wise choices, find someone who does.” – Lori Hil

32. “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

33. “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

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

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35. “And in life, it is all about choices we make. And how the direction of our lives comes down to the choices we choose.” – Catherine Pulsifer

36. “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

37. “You always have two choices with your life and experience: you can either learn from it or you can place blame. The choice is always yours.” – Kevin Horsley

38. “We make our choices, then our choices make us.” – Anonymous

39. 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.” – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

40. When bad things happen to you, focus on what you can learn from it. If you focus on the bad, you’re doomed to repeat it. – Mel Robbins

Choice quotes from The Giver

41. “It’s the choosing that’s important, isn’t it?” — Lois Lowry, The Giver

42. “We really have to protect people from wrong choices.” — Lois Lowry, The Giver

43. “How could someone not fit in? The community was so meticulously ordered, the choices so carefully made.” — Lois Lowry, The Giver

44. “It’s the way they live. It’s the life that was created for them. It’s the same life that you would have if you had not been chosen as my successor.” — Lois Lowry, The Giver

45. “Even trained for years as they all had been in precision of language, what words could you use which would give another the experience of sunshine?” — Lois Lowry, The Giver

46. “They were satisfied with their lives which had none of the vibrance his own was taking on. And he was angry at himself, that he could not change that for them.” — Lois Lowry, The Giver

47. “Having you here with me over the past year has made me realize that things must change. For years I’ve felt that they should, but it seemed so hopeless. Now for the first time I think there might be a way.” — Lois Lowry, The Giver

48. “Sometimes I wish they’d ask for my wisdom more often-there are so many things I could tell them; things I wish they would change. But they don’t want change. Life here is so orderly, so predictable-so painless. It’s what they’ve chosen.” — Lois Lowry, The Giver

49. “If he had stayed in the community, he would not be. It was as simple as that. Once he had yearned for choice. Then, when he has had a choice, he had made the wrong one: the choice to leave. And now he was starving.” — Lois Lowry, The Giver

50. “Our people made that choice, the choice to go to Sameness. Before my time, before the previous time, back and back and back. We relinquished color when we relinquished sunshine and did away with difference. We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others.” — Lois Lowry, The Giver

Choice quotes to encourage good decisions

51. “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

52. “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

53. “Life is about choices. Some we regret. Some we’re proud of.” -Graham Brown

54. “There’s no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.” –Jack Welch

55. “Making better choices takes work. There is a daily give and take, but it is worth the effort.” -Tom Rath

56. “I have made the choices that work best for me.  I cannot please everyone everyone, and that’s fine.”  -Marlee Matlin

57. “You write your life story by the choices you make. You never know if they have been a mistake. Those moments of decision are so difficult.” –Helen Mirren

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

59. “Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.”  –Jean-Paul Sartre

60. “I’m open for possibilities. I’m open for choices. I always welcome new ideas. I’m always eager to learn. I’m never going to close my mind from learning.” -Cesar Milan

Choice quotes when you’re feeling indecisive

61. “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” ― J.K. Rowling

62. “You cannot control the behavior of others, but you can always choose how you respond to it.” ― Roy T. Bennett

63. “But until a person can say deeply and honestly, “I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday,” that person cannot say, “I choose otherwise.” ― Stephen R. Covey

64. “In the end that was the choice you made, and it doesn’t matter how hard it was to make it. It matters that you did.” ― Cassandra Clare

65. “We are our choices.” ― Jean-Paul Sartre

66. “It is not for me to judge another man’s life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.” ― Herman Hesse

67. “There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.” ― Shannon L. Alder

68. “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

69. “You are not the victim of the world, but rather the master of your own destiny. It is your choices and decisions that determine your destiny.” ― Roy T. Bennett

70. “In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.” ― Theodore Roosevelt

Thought-provoking choice quotes

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

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

73. “With awareness come responsibility and choice.” – Amanda Lindhout

74. “To be offended is a choice we make; it is not a condition inflicted or imposed upon us by someone or something else.” – David A. Bednar

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

76 “Choice means saying no to one thing so you can say yes to another.” – Dan Millman

77. “Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.” – Alfred A. Montapert

78. “It’s up to you today to start making healthy choices. Not choices that are just healthy for your body, but healthy for your mind.” – Steve Maraboli

79. “Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless.” – Thomas Carlyle

80. “Men are free to decide their own moral choices, but they are also under the necessity to account to God for those choices.” – Aiden Wilson

Choice quotes for making big decisions

81. “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

82. “Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.” – Paul Tillich

83. “The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.” – David Russell

84. “People will always have opinions about your decision because they’re not courageous enough to take action on their opinion.” ― Steve Maraboli

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85. “If you chase two rabbits, both will escape.”- Unknown author

86. “When one can accept that all their circumstances and life events are a result of their decision making, that individual immediately gains back their power to create.” – Michael Austin Jacobs

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

88. “When you face a problem, solve it then and there if you have the facts necessary to make a decision. Don’t keep putting off decisions.” — Dale Carnegie

89. “Make decisions from the heart and use your head to make it work out.” – Sir Girad

90. 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

Choice Quotes To Express Your Experience Based On Past Choices

91. “Some of the biggest acts of self-kindness are very difficult to do in the moment, but they’re the right long-term choice.” — Lara Heacock

92. “Almost everyone has held on to regrets because of poor choices made in the past. I know I have.” — Kim Masengale

93. “The choice we make will determine whether we reinforce a world where conflicts escalate out of control, or create a new world where conflicts are transformed into opportunity.” — Mark Gerzon

94. “You have the choice this very moment – the only moment you have for certain. I hope you aren’t so wrapped up in nonessential stuff that you forget to really enjoy yourself – because this moment is about to be over.” — Oprah Winfrey

95. “There is always plenty to be worried and sad about, but there is equally plenty to be happy and at peace with. The choice is yours.” — Steve Maraboli

96. “Any individual who wishes to attain sustainable and lasting bliss, must embrace one simple fact: happiness is a choice.” — Jo Roderick

97. “Patience gives us self-control, the capacity to stop and be in the present moment. From that place we can make wise choices.” — M. J. Ryan

98. “Life will always bring you pain; you have a choice about how much you suffer.” — Gretchen Kubacky

99. “The choice for silence or noise, for carefulness or carelessness, is ours in every moment.” — Maggie Ross

100. “We are partners by fate. We become friends by choice.” — Jacquie McTaggart

Inspiring Choice Quotes You Can Learn From

101. “I don’t regret any of the decisions I’ve made in my life because with every choice I make, I learn something new.” — Siva Kaneswaren

102. “The hardest choices in life aren’t between what’s right and what’s wrong but between what’s right and what’s best.” — Jamie Ford

103. “You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.” — Pat Riley

104. “If you’re just safe about the choices you make, you don’t grow.” — Heath Ledger

105. “Opposition provides choices, and choices bring consequences, good or bad.” — Ezra Taft Benson

106. “You can’t make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable.” — Deepak Chopra

107. “Life is a matter of really tough choices.” — Joe Biden

108. “Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.” — Joyce Meyer

109. “Behaviors are a choice. Feelings are sometimes out of our control. Behavior has to do with choices.” — Randall Terry

110. “Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don’t choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.” — Phil McGraw

Choice Quotes That Inspire You To Take Time And Make Right Choices

111. “Intentional living is the art of making our own choices before others’ choices make us.” ― Richie Norton

112. “People always say in the end you only regret the choices you didn’t make but I really think you also regret the choices you were foolish enough to make.” ― Melizena

113. “Life is a web of intersections and choices. Your 1st choice is to recognize an intersection. Your 2nd choice is to be grateful for it.” ― Ryan Lilly

114. “The Compound Effect is the principle of reaping huge rewards from a series of small, smart choices” ― Darren Hardy

115. “You are creating through your choices, even now. Choose wisely.” ― Bryant McGill

116. “The choice to make good choices is the best choice you can choose. Fail to make that choice and on most choices you will lose.” ― Ryan Lilly

117. “There are always consequences to wrong choices.” ― Jim George

118. “Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.” ― Roy Bennett

119. “The way you live your day is a sentence in the story of your life. Each day you make the choice whether the sentence ends with a period, question mark, or exclamation point.” ― Steve Maraboli

120. “What we do,our choices, that’s what defines us.” ― Carrie Jones

Choice Quotes To Shape Your Destiny

121. “Nothing happens until you decide.” — Oprah Winfrey

122. “The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.” — William James

123. “The choices we make determine our destiny.” — Brandon October

124. “Healthy choices thread through every aspect of life.” — Mary Anne Radmacher

125. I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life.” — Louise Hay

126. “Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.” — Aeschylus

127. “Life is the sum of your choices.” — Albert Camus

128. “Know the best and highest choices for health and more often choose those things.” — Mary Anne Radmacher

129. “All is context. Choose yours carefully, where you have a choice.” — Mike Young

130. “I truly don’t have any formula for the choices I make.” — Javier Bardem

Choice Quotes To Determine Our Destiny

131. “Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices. Then our choices make us.” ― Anne Frank

132. “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

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

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

135. “Everything that is happening at this moment is a result of the choices you’ve made in the past.” ― Deepak Chopra

136. “The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.” ― George Eliot

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

138. “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” ― Stephen Covey

139. “Life is a series of choices that are made in the present moment.” ― Darren Main

140. “The choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt

Choice Quotes To Help You Make The Right Decision

141. “We don’t get to chose what is true. We only get to choose what we do about it.” ― Kami Garcia

142.“It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living, or get busy dying.”

― Stephen King

143. “The choices you make now, the people you surround yourself with, they all have the potential to affect your life, even who you are, forever.” ― Sarah Dessen

144.“Identity was partly heritage, partly upbringing, but mostly the choices you make in life. ~ Bran”― Patricia Briggs

145. “It’s not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.” ― Roy Disney

146. “But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on.”― Libba Bray

147. “Every choice comes with a consequence. Once you make a choice, you must accept responsibility. You cannot escape the consequences of your choices, whether you like them or not.” ― Roy T. Bennett

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148. “Desires dictate our priorities, priorities shape our choices, and choices determine our actions.” ― Dallin H. Oaks

149. “Why did I come here? I thought. Why is it always only a matter of choosing between something bad and something worse?”― Charles Bukowski

150. “Everyone has choices to make; no one has the right to take those choices away from us. Not even out of love..” ― Cassandra Clare

Choices Quotes on the Power of Decision-Making

151. “Sometimes we can choose the paths we follow. Sometimes our choices are made for us. And sometimes we have no choice at all.” ― Neil Gaiman

152. “I choose bold. I choose action. I choose what’s right for the people. I choose to make a difference.” ― Bill Richardson

153. “One of the hardest decisions you’ll ever face in life is choosing whether to walk away or try harder.” ― Ziad K. Abdelnour

154. “You are what you choose to be today. Not what you’ve chosen to be before.” ― Wayne Dyer

155. “Freedom is not the capacity to do whatever we please; freedom is the capacity to make intelligent choices.” ― Frances Moore Lappé

156. “Without choice, you have no innovation. Without innovation, you have nothing.” ― Scott McNealy

157. “Each person’s destiny is not a matter of chance; it’s a matter of choice. It’s determined by what we say, what we do, and whom we trust.” ― S. Truett Cathy

158. “When something bad happens you have three choices. You can either let it define you, let it destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you.” ― Dr. Seuss

159. “Your behavior is a choice; it isn’t who you are.” ― Vanessa Diffenbaugh

160. “Be at peace with your choices.They all serve you.” ― Alan Cohen

Choices Quotes to Navigating Through Life’s Crossroads

161. “The path you take is up to you. Make good choices, dream BIG, it is never too late.” ― Chris Herren

162. “Your own life is the way it is because of you, and the choices you have made – or failed to make.” ― Neale Donald Walsch

163. “Our decisions aren’t just isolated choices. Our decisions point our lives in the directions we’re about to head. Show me a decision and I’ll show you a direction.” ― Lysa TerKeurst

164. “Our future is not unpredictable, our future is simply the result of choices we have made.” ― Garth Brooks

165. “The key to getting the most from choice is to be choosy about choosing.” ― Sheena Iyengar

166. “This isn’t just ‘the way things are.’ This is the way you made them. This is the result of your choices, your actions. Yours.” ― Andrew Klavan

167. “Only as we keep an open communication with our deep inner life will we have the wisdom to make effective choices.” ― Stephen Covey

168. “To believe in your choice you don’t need to prove that other people’s choices are wrong.” ― Paulo Coelho

169. You can’t judge my choices without understanding my reasons.” ― Kid Cudi

170. “Your future is being determined by you right now, depending on the choices you make.” ― Gary Renard

Choice Quotes For Positive Action

171. “It’s not our talents that make us safe or dangerous, it’s our choices.” ― Josephine Angelini

172. “Impulsive isn’t something you choose. It’s something you are.” ― Kirsten Hubbard

173. “There were always choices. I’d made a string of bad ones myself. At least I could admit that.” ― Jennifer L. Armentrout

174. “Feelings are much like waves, we can’t stop them from coming but we can choose which one to surf.” ― Jonatan Mårtensson

175. “The choice is not in what you do. The choice is in the why.” ― Emma Raveling

176. “The direction you choose to face determines whether you’re standing at the end or the beginning of a road.” ― Richelle E. Goodrich

177. “People make decisions, and maybe you don’t always agree, but those choices are still their own.” ― Brenna Yovanoff

178. “Life is made up of chances to make choices, decisions of what you wish to do; the accumulated result of those choices is what you call your life.” ― steven redhead

179. “A moment of choice is a moment of truth. It’s the testing point of our character and competence.” ― Stephen Covey

180. “Destiny is variable, not fixed; it is forever changing depending upon your free will to make choices for what you want your life to be.” ― steven redhead

Choice Quotes To Show The Importance Of Choosing Wisely

181. “I believed our touching to be more intense because of it’s very holding back. Belief is always a choice.” ― Jane Green

182. “Our destiny becomes the accumulation of the choices that we make; the choices of which paths we took in life.” ― Steven Redhead

183. “Life truly becomes exactly what you make it. All the choices lead to the reality you are experiencing.” ― steven redhead

184. “Life has a habit of making the easy desperately difficult, and the hardest choices so easy as to be no choice at all.” ― Catherine Sanderson

185. “Empowerment is being aware that there is no one to blame for my choices and actions; that I have a personal choice and responsibility for my life.” ― Steve Maraboli

186. “Choose to do more than just exist; choose to live.” ― Steve Maraboli

187. “Choices are powerful things. In fact, they’re more powerful than most things.” ― Amy Neftzger

188. “We are the sum total of the decisions we have made.” ― E.A. Bucchianeri

189. “You express the truth of your character with the choice of your actions.” ― Steve Maraboli

190. “The opposite of hope is despair, and when we despair, it is because we feel there are no choices.” ― Warren G. Bennis

191. Fear is only good when you have a choice in things.” — Anne Rice

192. “The choices of one shape the futures of all.” — Timothy Zahn

193. She was incapable of love for any object not of her own choice and she resented anyone’s demand for it.” — Ayn Rand

194. “It’s a choice, Annabel. And if you make the wrong one, you have only yourself to blame when there are consequences.” — Sarah Dessen

195. “Make your choice and accept the consequences.” — Lisa Kleypas

196. “For love to flourish there has to be trust. Promises don’t matter as much as personal choice.” — Ann Aguirre

197. “Fate is just another word for people’s choices coming to a head. Destiny, coincidence, whatever you name it. It inevitably lies in our hands.” — Tiffanie DeBartolo

198. “Leave the pain behind and let your life be your own again. There is a place where all time is now, and the choices are simple and always your own. Wolves have no kings.” — Robin Hobb

199. “Sometimes you have to accept how things are. You can make it easy on yourself, or you can make it hard. The choice is yours.” — Susan Mallery

200. “One should make the best choice possible given the circumstances, and then avoid second-guessing for the sake of one’s own sanity.” — Lisa Kleypas

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Were you able to relate with any of these choice quotes?

Realizing and acknowledging the choices that we make is empowering, whether the outcome is good or bad.

It is also important, as it helps us evaluate what we do and do not have control over.

This is an important distinction to make, as we can let go of what we will never have a choice – or control over – and focus our time and energy on what we do.

I hope these choice quotes helped you realize the power you possess regarding life’s decisions.

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