Top 200 Choices Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you’re living?”

— Bob Marley

52. “In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

53. “It’s what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.”

— Paulo Coelho

54. “Make a choice of what you want, who you want to be and how you’re going to do it. The universe will get out of your way.”

— Will Smith

55. “You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.”

— Jim Rohn

56. “Everything can be taken from a person but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

57. “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”

— J.K. Rowling

58. “Wisdom is knowing the right path to take. Integrity is taking it.”

— M.H. McKee

59. “My life didn’t please me, so I created my life.”

— Coco Chanel

60. “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”

— Mary Oliver

61. “You’ve got to find what you love.”

— Steve Jobs

62. “Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

63. “Awareness precedes choice and choice precedes results.”

— Robin S. Sharma

64. “We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing; those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind? We make our own destiny.”

— Swami Vivekananda

65. “Danger is very real but fear is a choice.”

— Will Smith

66. “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.”

— Jimmy Dean

67. “Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that’s the one that is going to require the most from you. Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it?”

— Caroline Myss

68. “You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. ”

— Jim Rohn

69. “Talent is a gift, but character is a choice.”

— John C. Maxwell

70. “Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.”

— Seneca

71. “If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.”

— Yogi Berra

72. “Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

73. “We don’t “have” a great day, we “make it” a great day!”

— Frosty Westering

74. “Trust your instincts. Intuition doesn’t lie.”

— Oprah Winfrey

75. “You cannot make progress without making decisions.”

— Jim Rohn

76. “The biggest risk a person can take is to do nothing.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

77. “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”

— William James

78. “I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life.”

— Louise Hay

79. “You are free to choose, but the choices you make today will determine what you have, be, and do in the tomorrow of your life.”

— Zig Ziglar

80. “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”

— Anaïs Nin

81. “Once I made a decision, I never thought about it again.”

— Michael Jordan

82. “We always have a choice.”

— Tony Robbins

83. “Today is your day. To start fresh. To eat right. To train hard. To live healthy. To be proud.”

— Bonnie Pfiester

84. “It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”

— J.K. Rowling

85. “It’s never too late – never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.”

— Jane Fonda

86. “When in doubt, choose to live.”

— Terry Pratchett

87. “To achieve goals you’ve never achieved before, you need to start doing things you’ve never done before.”

— Stephen R. Covey

88. “There is a choice you have to make in everything you do. So keep in mind that in the end, the choice you make, makes you.”

— John Wooden

89. “Be active! Take on responsibility! Work for the things you believe in. If you do not, you are surrendering your fate to others.”

— Abdul Kalam

90. “I’ve realized that being happy is a choice.”

— Angelina Jolie

91. “Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.”

— Deepak Chopra

92. “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”

— Maya Angelou

93. “The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.”

— Henry David Thoreau

94. “Life is a helluva lot more fun if you say yes rather than no”

— Richard Branson

95. “In the age of information, ignorance is a choice.”

— Donald Miller

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

— Denis Waitley

97. “Your life is a reflection of your thoughts. If you change your thinking, you change your life.”

— Brian Tracy

98. “Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

99. “You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

100. “Study hard. Work hard. Play harder. Don’t be bound by rules, don’t hurt anybody and never ever live somebody else’s dream.”

— Shah Rukh Khan