Impact of Choices Quotes

We are not powerless. We have tremendous potential for good or ill. How we choose to use that power is up to us; but first we must choose to use it. We're told every day, You can't change the world. But the world is changing every day. Only question is who's doing it? You or somebody else?

When you make a choice, you change the future.

Your actions will follow you full circle round,the higher the leap, I said, the harder the ground!

What are your choices? Whom are your choices for? Not just for yourself. Chose now whom you will serve, and that choice is going to affect the next generation, and the next generation, and the next. Choice never affects just one person alone. It goes on and on and the effect goes out into geography and history. You are part of history and your choices become part of history.

Oh, no. It costs a lot more than your life. To murder innocent people?" says Peeta. "It costs everything you are.

The problems we face, did not come down from the heavens. They are made, they are made by bad human decisions, and good human decisions can change them.

It has been said that the gate of history turns on small hinges, and so do people's lives. The choices we make determine our destiny.

Every great decision creates ripples. Like a huge boulder dropping in a lake. The ripples merge and rebound off the banks in unforseeable ways. The heavier the decision, the larger the waves, the more uncertain the consequences.

Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.

The choices we've made throughout our lives affect whatever happens to us in any given moment.

When I go back to any of the mini-series or series that I've done, the heart and soul of the show always centers around how the people that we love are affected by our decisions.

We can learn from history how past generations thought and acted, how they responded to the demands of their time and how they solved their problems. We can learn by analogy, not by example, for our circumstances will always be different than theirs were. The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone. They foreclose the possibility of making other choices and thus they determine future events.

Whenever you made a choice, especially one you'd been resisting, it always affected everything else, some in big ways, like a tremor beneath your feet, others in so tiny a shift you hardly noticed a change at all. But it was happening.

Ideas matter. The world matters. Our lives matter, and the choices we make as we navigate our lives perhaps matter most of all.

We all have choices in history. Some are more important than others.

I think what's important for kids to know is that your decisions here on earth matter, your behavior matters and how you treat other people matters.

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

History isn't something you look back at and say it was inevitable, it happens because people make decisions that are sometimes very impulsive and of the moment, but those moments are cumulative realities.

The choices we make about the lives we live determine the kinds of legacies we leave.

I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.

It can take me forever to choose the right coffee cup in the morning. And it does make a difference!

Ramifications of small decisions can be pretty large.