Our Choices Quotes

Species are being wiped out every day. Do we want to live with this or don't we? That is really our choice. And I think that human beings, by nature, want to preserve themselves. But right now, we're so preoccupied by other stuff, and we're not addressing the issues, which are our priorities.

Life is the soil, our choices and actions the sun and rain, but our dreams are the seeds.

Some decisions are hard, some are easy, but either way it's our choices that matter. Who we chose to align with. What we choose to give in to. What we choose to resist. And most of all, who we choose to be. Because it is always our choice.

In the end, we are our choices.

We shall come to honor all of Life sooner or later. Our choices are when that shall happen, and the quality of experience that we shall have as we learn.

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

We’re products of our choices.

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

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

Our choices determine our destiny

We don't get to chose what is true. We only get to choose what we do about it.

We can’t help who we love. Love isn’t logical, or even our choice. Love chooses us.

Ojibwe prophecy speaks of a time during the seventh fire when our people will have a choice between two paths. The first path is well worn and scorched. The second path is new and green. It is our choice as communities and as individuals how we will proceed.

Religious freedom should work two ways: we should be free to practice the religion of our choice, but we must also be free from having someone else's religion practiced on us.

Ethics is a code of values which guide our choices and actions and determine the purpose and course of our lives.

Once you accept the fact that people have 'individual choices' and they're 'free' to make those choices.  Free to make choices means without being influenced and I can't understand that at all.  All of us are influenced in all our choices by the culture we live in, by our parents, and by the values that dominate.  So, we're influenced.  So there can't be free choices.

Women have to make a living. We don't live in a wealthy world where we even have a choice. We're losing our choice of whether or not we need to work. If we want to work, we obviously should work and have that choice, but a lot of women can't even get to the word "want." They need to work. And it's great to see women who needed to work and found a way to become a firefighter or a steel worker. That, to me, is very exciting.

Our choice is not between war and peace but between life with dignity or without

I'm not sure I understand how responsibility for our choices makes sense if they are not determined.

Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children’s children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.

But hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie down in darkness.

When we make decisions, about eating or anything else, with an attitude of kindness and acceptance toward ourselves, with awareness of what is involved in our choices, the conflict between deprivation and indulgence ceases to exist.

I like to think that we’re not defined by what happens to us…because so many times they’re beyond our control. I like to think that we’re defined by our choices and our decisions.

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

Democracy no longer means what it was meant to. It has been taken back into the workshop. Each of its institutions has been hollowed out, and it has been returned to us as a vehicle for the free market, of the corporations. For the corporations, by the corporations. Even if we do vote, we should just spend less time and intellectual energy on our choices and keep our eye on the ball.

The future depends more upon our choice of institutions which support a life of action than on our developing new ideologies and technologies.

We cannot lead a choiceless life. Every day, every moment, every second, there is a choice. If it were not so, we would not be individuals.

Sadly, if we are not confident about our choices, we can easily let other peoples' comments make us feel guilty and ruin the joy we need to experience in life through doing the little things that mean a lot to us.

Our choice, always, is to love and understand.

I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralyzed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something - a great deal - to do with how we live our lives.

We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives.

Our choice is between cynicism and hope.

I have a fantastic wife, and not only in terms of external beauty. Her priority and mine is our children. That is our choice.

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

Let us remember that desires dictate our priorities, priorities shape our choices, and choices determine our actions. In addition, it is our actions and our desires that cause us to become something, whether a true friend, a gifted teacher, or one who has qualified for eternal life.

When we do align with it, we thrive. And when we do not, we suffer. This is not "punishment." It is merely the Law of Cause and Effect. With each thought we think, we either align with universal love, or we disconnect ourselves from it. Whichever is our choice determines whether we then feel connected to, or disconnected, from our own true Selves.

I'm a big believer in the idea that while we are the sum of our tears, we are also the product of our choices in how we deal with those tears.

We create our own destiny by the way we do things. We have to take advantage of opportunities and be responsible for our choices.

What if evil doesn't really exist? What if evil is something dreamed up by man, and there is nothing to struggle against except out own limitations? The constant battle between our will, our desires, and our choices?

The choices we make when we're broken are sometimes the most awful of all our choices.

The pleasure is our choice.

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.

As a body in a world, here is our choice: we can be more loving or less loving. That's it. We can relax as the entire moment's show of love's swirl, feeling open as all--a vicious rainstorm, tweeting birds, our lover's lips, a sense of worthlessness-- or we can close to some aspect of experience, pulling away as if we were separate.

In the long run, our most deeply held desires will govern our choices, one by one and day by day, until our lives finally add up to what we have really wanted most--for good or otherwise. We can indeed have eternal life, if we really want it, so long as we don't want something else more.

To defeat terrorism, we must acknowledge that we are all human beings. It is not our choice to belong to a particular race or family. We should be freed from fear of the other and enjoy diversity within democracy. I believe that dialogue and education are the most effective means to surpass our differences.

There is no accident in our choice of reading. All our sources are related.

We must set aside our wishes and give heed to reality. Nobody can accept the truth while hiding from it. When a decision matters, we have to stare at the truth unflinchingly. Only then can we find peace in our choices.

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

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

And they stuck to their guns and fought for Sean Connery, and they were right to fight for Sean Connery. If it wasn't for Sean Connery, we wouldn't all be here. I was raised to fight for what I believed in, so I wasn't going to give up. I wanted Daniel Craig, and Michael wanted Daniel Craig, so we just stuck to our guns. Fortunately, we had the right management who really stuck with us. Thanks to that, we got our choice. He's been an extraordinary Bond, and he is very much the right Bond for the 21st century.