Top 200 Choices Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Every day the choice is presented to us, to live up to the spirit that is in us, or deny it.”

— Henry Miller

152. “Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help make the big choices in life. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.”

— Steve Jobs

153. “Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.”

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

154. “Integrity, the choice between what’s convenient and what’s right.”

— Tony Dungy

155. “Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice.”

— Jeff Bezos

156. “Direction determines destination. So the question you must ask yourself is, ‘Are all the disciplines that I’m currently engaged in taking me where I want to go?’”

— Jim Rohn

157. “There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.”

— Denis Waitley

158. “Alice came to a fork in the road. ‘Which road do I take?’ she asked. ‘Where do you want to go?’ responded the Cheshire Cat. ‘I don’t know,’ Alice answered. ‘Then,’ said the Cat, ’it doesn’t matter.”

— Lewis Carroll

159. “The greatest choice we have is to think before we act and then take action toward our life goals every day. Our problems result not only from our lack of action, but from our action without thought.”

— Denis Waitley

160. “Leadership is a choice, not a position.”

— Stephen R. Covey

161. “Sometimes the future changes quickly and completely, and we’re left with only the choice of what to do next. We can choose to be afraid of it, to stand there trembling not moving, assuming the worst that can happen or we step forward into the unknown and assume it will be brilliant.”

— Sandra Oh

162. “Be true to yourself. Make each day your masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day. Pray for guidance and give thanks for your blessings every day.”

— John Wooden

163. “If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.”

— Henry David Thoreau

164. “I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.”

— Maya Angelou

165. “Life isn’t happening to you; life is responding to you.”

— Rhonda Byrne

166. “My Rich Dad said, ‘All of us have the power of choice. I choose to be rich, and I make that choice every day.’”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

167. “For every failure, there’s an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.”

— Mary Kay Ash

168. “Create your day in advance by thinking the way you want it to go, and you will create your life intentionally.”

— Rhonda Byrne

169. “In a choice between love and fear, choose love.”

— Marianne Williamson

170. “Writing is a calling, not a choice.”

— Isabel Allende

171. “Here we may reign secure; and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in hell: Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.”

— John Milton

172. “Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.”

— Aeschylus

173. “We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.”

— Khalil Gibran

174. “Happiness is a choice. You grieve, you stomp your feet, you pick yourself up and choose to be happy.”

— Lucy Lawless

175. “You are only one defining decision away from a totally different life!”

— Mark Batterson

176. “Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.”

— Amy Bloom

177. “I’m Starting With The Man In The Mirror I’m Asking Him To Change His Ways And No Message Could Have Been Any Clearer If You Wanna Make The World A Better Place Take A Look At Yourself, And Then Make A Change.”

— Michael Jackson

178. “Indecision is the greatest thief of opportunity.”

— Jim Rohn

179. “I am responsible for my fate, I am the bringer of good unto myself, I am the bringer of evil. I am the Pure and Blessed One. We must reject all thoughts that assert to the contrary.”

— Swami Vivekananda

180. “You could be great. You could rattle the stars. You could do anything if only you dared.”

— Sarah J. Maas

181. “What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.”

— Ralph Marston

182. “Man is condemned to be free.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

183. “We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.”

— Winston Churchill

184. “Where you are going to spend your time and your energy is one of the most important decisions you get to make in life.”

— Jeff Bezos

185. “Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be.”

— W. Clement Stone

186. “Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it’s realistic or not.”

— Deepak Chopra

187. “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.”

— Amelia Earhart

188. “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.”

— Charlotte Brontë

189. “Less gossiping, more learning. Less complaining, more excelling. Less walls, more bridges. Less fear, more courage.”

— Robin S. Sharma

190. “If you don’t act on life, life will act on you.”

— Robin S. Sharma

191. “Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don’t.”

— Steve Maraboli

192. “Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.”

— Oprah Winfrey

193. “It’s never too late to do the right thing.”

— Nicholas Sparks

194. “Once a decision is made, you should stop worrying and start working. It’s not always what we know that makes it a good decision. It is what we do to implement and execute it that makes it a good decision.”

— John C. Maxwell

195. “Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around.”

— Cameron Crowe

196. “Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.”

— Jim Rohn

197. “Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.”

— Voltaire

198. “Listen to your heart. It knows everything.”

— Paulo Coelho

199. “Success is a decision, not a gift.”

— Steve Backley

200. “Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.”

— W. Clement Stone