Making a Choice Quotes

Hope cannot be said to exist, nor can it be said not to exist. It is just like roads across the earth. For actually the earth had no roads to begin with, but when many men pass one way, a road is made.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right — for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be "damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

People are either with us or against us. If the line isn’t clear and there aren’t clear consequences, people migrate to the wrong side of the line.

You can't always see both sides of the story. Eventually, you have to pick a side and stick with it. No more equivocating. You have to commit.

When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - choose the bolder.

It is all here. You make the choice.

To know there is a choice is to have to make the choice: change or stay: river or rock.

When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed. At that moment all Will's choices existed at once. But to keep them all in existence meant doing nothing. He had to choose, after all.

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

You have to pick the places you don't walk away from.

When you choose the path, you choose the destination.

If you want to change things, it requires bravery.

What I'm asking for is hard. It's easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn't possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don't matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.

There comes a point in every man's life when he has to say: 'Enough is enough.'

You have to look at each tie and look at what your options are.

When you face a fork in the road, step on the exhilarator!

You are the person who has to decide. Whether you'll do it or toss it aside.

When I started acting I knew nothing. It was a momentous decision to pick up the flyer for the 'Trainspotting' audition. 'Destined' is a bit of a poncy word for it, but I do think I was headed in that direction.

Sometimes it takes more courage to get up and run than to stay. You either just do it or you don't. I got so scared the first day in combat I just decided to go along with it.

Talking is not enough; words don't clarify anything. I'll have to hit upon something, but what?

The difference between doing something and not doing something is doing something.

It's about one moment. It's about hitting the wall and having to make a choice, or take a stand, or turn around and go back.

Everything depends on which path you take.

If not me, who? And if not now, when?

You've got to stop going back and forth. You've got to make up your mind.