Top 200 Choices Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Life is a matter of choices, and every choice you make makes you.”

— John C. Maxwell

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2. “Your life is a result of the choices you have made. If you don’t like your life, start making better choices.”

— Zig Ziglar

3. “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

4. “Everything you are comes from your choices.”

— Jeff Bezos

5. “The future depends on what you do today.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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6. “We all create the person we become by our choices as we go through life. In a real sense, by the time we are adults, we are the sum total of the choices we have made.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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7. “Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

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8. “The time is always right to do the right thing.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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9. “Look, if you had one shot, or one opportunity. To seize everything you ever wanted in one moment. Would you capture it or just let it slip?”

— Eminem

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10. “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.”

— Robert Frost

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11. “The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now.”

— Zig Ziglar

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12. “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And you are the one who’ll decide where to go.”

— Dr. Seuss

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13. “If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.”

— Jim Rohn

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14. “Between stimulus and response is the freedom to choose.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

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15. “When you make a choice, you change the future.”

— Deepak Chopra

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16. “Everything you do is based on the choices you make. It’s not your parents, your past relationships, your job, the economy, the weather, an argument or your age that is to blame. You and only you are responsible for every decision and choice you make. Period.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

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17. “Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

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18. “At any moment the decision you make can change the course of your life forever.”

— Tony Robbins

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19. “It is not what you say or hope or wish or intend but only what you do that counts. Your choices tell you unerringly who you really are.”

— Brian Tracy

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20. “Nothing happens until you decide. Make a decision and watch your life move forward.”

— Oprah Winfrey

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21. “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth.”

— Robert Frost

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22. “Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.”

— Gayle Forman

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23. “Follow your heart and your intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

— Steve Jobs

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24. “Life is the sum of your choices.”

— Albert Camus

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25. “If you want to be happy, be.”

— Leo Tolstoy

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26. “Don’t get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.”

— Dolly Parton

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27. “A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

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28. “Live out of your imagination, not your history.”

— Stephen R. Covey

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29. “May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.”

— Nelson Mandela

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30. “Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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31. “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.”

— Maya Angelou

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32. “You have two choices, to control your mind or to let your mind control you.”

— Paulo Coelho

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33. “Love what you do; Do what you love.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

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34. “You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.”

— Lou Holtz

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35. “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

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36. “You and only you are responsible for your life choices and decisions.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

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37. “You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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38. “Get busy living or get busy dying.”

— Stephen King

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39. “You have two choices: You can make a living, or you can design a life.”

— Jim Rohn

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40. “Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices. Then our choices make us.”

— Anne Frank

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41. “Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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42. “A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.”

— Bob Dylan

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43. “What’s the ONE Thing you can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?”

— Gary W. Keller

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44. “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”

— John D. Rockefeller

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45. “Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.”

— Tony Robbins

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46. “If you don’t sacrifice for what you want, what you want becomes the sacrifice.”

— Anonymous

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47. “In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact.”

— Les Brown

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48. “Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way.”

— Alan Watts

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49. “I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”

— C.G. Jung

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50. “If it is not right do not do it. If it is not true do not say it.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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