Making Choices Quotes

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.

The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.

If you don't go through life making excuses, you save yourself, your friends, and parents a lot of trouble.

Not to decide is to decide. Letting something go until it 'decides itself' is Life by Default. You don't want to live that way. So choose. Choose right now. Stop worrying about what you can 'lose' or how you can 'win' and just follow your joy. Where does your joy say you should go?

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.

A person sometimes can't make a decision unless they know what decision to make.

One should commit no stupidity twice, the variety of choice is, in the end, large enough.

Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forwards.

It's not that I'm Mr. Goody-Two-Shoes now, but I've got my priorities in order.

You don’t make decisions in hindsight; you make them in the present. You live and learn.

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.

I knew I had to make a sacrifice to do what I've always wanted to do.

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.

Sometimes you have to make decisions without knowing all that you would like to know That's part of the job.

You have to do what's best for you and what's going to make you happy at the end of the day, because no one can live with the consequences or anything that comes with your decision besides you.

Money are very difficult to think about. So, we think about money as the opportunity cost of money. So, we at some point went to a Toyota dealership and we asked people, what will you not be able to do in the future if you bought this Toyota?

You can't achieve anything in life without a small amount of sacrifice.

I'd maybe done about 12 movies when I decided that this was what I was going to do.

Make a decision. It doesn't have to be a wise decision or a perfect one. Just make one.

What people tell me they take away from my books is that they can shape their lives, they can achieve their own dreams. And certainly that's what I want them to take away.

I want the title. But these hands are working hands, and sometimes you've got to get them dirty.

I don't have any regrets. I made all my own decisions.

The choice is yours. You hold the tiller. You can steer the course you choose in the direction of where you want to be - today, tomorrow, or in a distant time to come.