Life is made up of choices. Every decision, big or small, shapes our journey. Quotes about choices can inspire and guide us when we are uncertain or afraid. They remind us of the power we hold with every decision.
These quotes come from different voices—poets, thinkers, and leaders. Each one offers wisdom and encouragement. As you read them, think about the choices you face today and how these words might help.
Quotes about Life Choices
“It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” – J.K. Rowling
“we only regret the chances we didn’t take.” – Lewis Carroll
“Life is the sum of all your choices.” – Albert Camus
“You cannot control the direction of the wind, but you can adjust your sails.” – Jimmy Dean
“Every choice you make has an end result.” – Zig Ziglar
“May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.” – Nelson Mandela
“All our choices add up to the full circle of our lives.” – Tom Hiddleston
“The choices we make today create the future that we are dreaming of.” – Kapil Dev
“Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice.” – William Jennings Bryan
“The hardest choices in life aren’t between what’s right and what’s wrong but between what’s right and what’s best.” – Jamie Ford
“Sometimes it’s the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.” – Keri Russell
“You must make a choice to take a chance or your life will never change.” – Unknown
“In every single thing you do, you are choosing a direction. Your life is a product of choices.” – Dr. Kathleen Hall
“It’s not hard to make decisions once you know what your values are.” – Roy E. Disney
“Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.” – Aeschylus
“Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision.” – Tony Robbins
“Life presents many choices, the choices we make determine our future.” – Catherine Pulsifer
“We are our choices.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
“The quality of your life ultimately depends on the quality of your choices.” – Annette Funicello
“Every decision you make is a mistake.” – Edward Dahlberg
“Your life is free from all obstacles and challenges except the ones that you make for yourself.” – Anonymous
“You and you alone are responsible for the choices you make, and the decisions you take.” – Sanjeev Himachali
“You have two choices in life: you can either like what you do or dislike what you do. I have chosen to like what I do.” – Barbara Bush
“Sometimes it’s the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.” – Keri Russell
“When making a choice, even if you don’t choose, you are still choosing.” – William James
“The choices you make in your life will determine where you end up; if you don’t like your life, it’s time to start making better decisions.” – John C. Maxwell
“Make bold choices and make mistakes. It’s all those things that add up to the person you become.” – Angelina Jolie
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.” – Amelia Earhart
“When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.” – William James
“We all make choices, but our choices make us.” – Ken Levine
“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.” – William Shakespeare
“Make the right choice even when nobody is looking.” – Unknown
Motivational Choices Quotes
“we only regret the chances we didn’t take.” – Lewis Carroll
“Life presents many choices, the choices we make determine our future.” – Catherine Pulsifer
“We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.” – Kahlil Gibran
“You are free to choose, but you are not free from the consequences of your choice.” – Anonymous
“The choices we make dictate the lives we lead.” – William Shakespeare
“Life is a matter of choices, and every choice you make makes you.” – John C. Maxwell
“Sometimes it’s the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.” – Keri Russell
“May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.” – Nelson Mandela
“You have two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.” – Denis Waitley
“Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.” – Wayne Dyer
“It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” – J.K. Rowling
“To decide is to walk facing forward with nary a crutch to lean upon.” – Anonymous
“Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We all make choices, but our choices make us.” – Ken Levine
“In the choice between changing one’s mind and proving there’s no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.” – John Kenneth Galbraith
“Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision.” – Tony Robbins
“The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.” – George Eliot
“Your choices are like a map of who you are.” – Bryant McGill
“When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.” – William James
“You cannot control the wind, but you can adjust the sails.” – Anonymous
“Every choice moves us closer to or farther away from something. Wherever you want to go, get there by making conscious, balanced choices.” – Anonymous
“To make a choice is to take a stand, and to take a stand is to live with purpose.” – Anonymous
“Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.” – Steve Jobs
“You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.” – Richard Bach
“Life is about making choices. You can either spend your time wallowing in self-pity or you can make the best of the life you have.” – Anonymous
“Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.” – Jim Rohn
“Decisions are the hardest moves to make, especially when it’s a choice between where you should be and where you want to be.” – Anonymous
“The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.” – Thornton Wilder
“Make bold choices and make mistakes. It’s all those things that add up to the person you become.” – Angelina Jolie
“Every morning, you have two choices: continue to sleep with your dreams or wake up and chase them.” – Anonymous
“Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.” – Mary Lou Retton
Inspirational Quotes on Choices
“we all make choices, and our choices make us.” – Andrew Ryan
“It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” – J.K. Rowling
“We are our choices.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
“Life is a matter of choices, and every choice you make makes you.” – John C. Maxwell
“May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.” – Nelson Mandela
“You are free to make whatever choice you want, but you are not free from the consequences of the choice.” – Anonymous
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.” – Robert Frost
“Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.” – Jim Rohn
“Decisions determine destiny.” – Frederick Speakman
“Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision.” – Tony Robbins
“Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice.” – William Jennings Bryan
“Every choice moves us closer to or further away from something.” – Eric Allenbaugh
“The hardest decisions in life are not between good and bad or right and wrong, but between two goods or two rights.” – Joe Andrew
“When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.” – William James
“Not making a decision is actually making a decision. To do nothing.” – Mike Dooley
“The key to success is making the right choices, at the right time.” – Anonymous
“Choices are the hinges of destiny.” – Edwin Markham
“It’s not hard to make decisions once you know what your values are.” – Roy E. Disney
“Everything in your life is a reflection of a choice you have made. If you want a different result, make a different choice.” – Anonymous
“You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.” – Sammy Davis, Jr.
“In every single thing you do, you are choosing a direction. Your life is a product of choices.” – Dr. Kathleen Hall
“The choices we make every minute of every day can contribute to making someone’s life a little bit better or worse even without intending to.” – Chikamso Efobi
“Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.” – John F. Kennedy
“Each choice we make can be a celebration of the world we want.” – Frances Moore Lappé
“The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.” – George Eliot
“Success is a matter of understanding and religiously practicing specific, simple habits that always lead to success.” – Robert J. Ringer
“Sometimes it’s the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.” – Keri Russell
“Your choice becomes your life.” – anonymous
“To decide is to look forward, to ignore all other ways but one. To proceed with clarity, even if the path is unknown.” – Original
“Your choices reveal your true priorities.” – Original
“Every day comes with new choices.” – Martha Beck
“Life presents many choices, the choices we make determine our future.” – Catherine Pulsifer
Quotes on Love Choices
“The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.” – Blaise Pascal
“we only regret the chances we didn’t take and the love we feared to embrace.” – Unknown
“We are our choices.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
“To love is to choose, and to choose well, you must know who you are.” – Paulo Coelho
“Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” – Aristotle
“True love is not about perfection, it’s hidden in flaws and imperfections.” – Unknown
“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” – Audrey Hepburn
“You always have a choice. It’s the one thing that identifies you and defines you.” – Martha Beck
“We loved with a love that was more than love.” – Edgar Allan Poe
“Every time you make a choice, you are turning the central part of you into something a little different than it was before.” – C.S. Lewis
“Real love is about weathering the storms of life together.” – Unknown
“it’s not about finding someone who chooses you over others; it’s about finding someone who chooses you over and over again.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“The course of true love never did run smooth.” – William Shakespeare
“It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” – J.K. Rowling
“Love is the most powerful and still the most unknown energy in the world.” – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
“We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.” – Khalil Gibran
“Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.” – Barbara De Angelis
“We were together, I forget the rest.” – Walt Whitman
“You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.” – Albert Einstein
“And the love you take is equal to the love you make.” – The Beatles
“Sometimes you have to choose between a bunch of wrong choices and no right ones. You just have to choose which wrong choices feel the least wrong.” – Colleen Hoover
“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” – Victor Hugo
“You don’t choose who you fall in love with; it just happens.” – Unknown
“Life is a matter of choices, and every choice you make makes you.” – John C. Maxwell
“To love is to act.” – Victor Hugo
“The hardest thing in the world is to choose what matters.” – Sue Monk Kidd
“When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.” – William James
“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” – Dr. Seuss
“The best love is the kind that awakens the soul; that makes us reach for more, that plants the fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds.” – Nicholas Sparks
“The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.” – Nat King Cole
Empowering Choices Quotes
“It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” – J.K. Rowling
“we only regret the chances we didn’t take.” – Lewis Carroll
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Life is a matter of choices, and every choice you make makes you.” – John C. Maxwell
“The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.” – Flora Whittemore
“You are free to make whatever choice you want, but you are not free from the consequences of the choice.” – Anonymous
“May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.” – Nelson Mandela
“Choose your love, love your choice.” – Thomas S. Monson
“The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.” – Voltaire
“When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that in itself is a choice.” – William James
“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.” – William Jennings Bryan
“You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.” – Michelle Obama
“You must make a choice to take a chance or your life will never change.” – Anonymous
“Sometimes it’s the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.” – Keri Russell
“We are our choices.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
“Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision.” – Tony Robbins
“A real decision is measured by the fact that you’ve taken a new action. If there’s no action, you haven’t truly decided.” – Tony Robbins
“The choice, and therefore the responsibility lies within.” – Stephen R. Covey
“In the realm of ideas, everything depends on enthusiasm; in the real world, all rests on perseverance.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Every choice we make can be a celebration of the world we want.” – Frances Moore Lappé
“Decisions become easier when your will to please God outweighs your will to please the world.” – Anonymous
“The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.” – J. Martin Kohe
“Each day is a choice – make good decisions to enjoy its success.” – A.D. Williams
“Your life is a result of the choices you make. If you don’t like your life, it is time to start making better choices.” – Anonymous
“Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.” – Bill Cosby
“Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.” – Jim Rohn
“In every single thing you do, you are choosing a direction. Your life is a product of choices.” – Dr. Kathleen Hall
“It’s not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.” – Roy E. Disney
“The hardest thing about the road not taken is that you never know where it might have led.” – Lisa Wingate
“You have two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.” – Denis Waitley
“The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.” – Peter Drucker
“Every aspect of your life is a choice. It’s time to stop making excuses.” – Anonymous
Quotes on Career Choices
“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” – Confucius
“It’s not what you achieve, it’s what you overcome. That’s what defines your career.” – Carlton Fisk
“Dreams are only dreams until you wake up and make them real.” – Ned Vizzini, It’s Kind of a Funny Story
“Our choices reflect who we are far more than our abilities.” – J.K. Rowling
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Peter Drucker
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
“You are not your resume, you are your work.” – Seth Godin
“Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence.” – Jessica Guidobono
“Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” – Albert Schweitzer
“It’s never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot
“Your career is like a garden. It can hold an assortment of life’s delights or be overrun with little creatures that inhibit growth and beauty.” – Thomas Barwick
“A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night.” – Marilyn Monroe
“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.” – Alan Turing
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.” – Goldie Hawn
“The secret to getting ahead is getting started.” – Mark Twain
“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work.” – Steve Jobs
“Think of many things; do one.” – Portuguese proverb
“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” – Maya Angelou
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt
“If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.” – Seth Godin
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” – Henry David Thoreau
“The biggest risk is not taking any risk.” – Mark Zuckerberg
“Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible.” – Charles Kingsleigh, Alice in Wonderland
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe
“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson
“Your own path you make with every step you take. That’s why it’s your path.” – Joseph Campbell
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison
Wisdom and Choices Quotes
“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
“we only regret the chances we didn’t take.” – Lewis Carroll
“Life is a matter of choices, and every choice you make makes you.” – John C. Maxwell
“The hardest decisions in life are not between good and bad or right and wrong, but between two goods or two rights.” – Joe Andrew
“Destiny is not a 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.” – William Jennings Bryan
“May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.” – Nelson Mandela
“We all make choices, but in the end our choices make us.” – Ken Levine
“The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.” – Thornton Wilder
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.” – Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken
“The choices we make dictate the lives we lead.” – William Shakespeare
“Everything in your life is a reflection of a choice you have made. If you want a different result, make a different choice.” – Unknown
“Choose your love, love your choice.” – Thomas S. Monson
“It’s not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.” – Roy Disney
“The choice of no choice is still a choice.” – Anonymous
“Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
“Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision.” – Tony Robbins
“Sometimes it’s the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.” – Keri Russell
“To decide is to walk facing forward with nary a crick in your neck from looking back at the crossroads.” – Betsy Cañas Garmon
“Every choice comes with a consequence. Once you make a choice, you must accept responsibility. You cannot escape the consequences of your choices, whether you like them or not.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Life presents many choices, the choices we make determine our future.” – Catherine Pulsifer
“Decisions are the frequent fabric of our daily design.” – Don Yaeger
“I think that wherever your journey takes you, there are new gods waiting there, with divine patience—and laughter.” – Susan M. Watkins
“The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.” – George Eliot
“Life is a series of choices. Each choice brings a consequence. Every consequence is a step toward the next opportunity.” – Joseph Rain
“Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.” – Peter F. Drucker
“Every path is the right path. Everything could have been anything else. And it would have just as much meaning.” – Mr. Nobody
“In every single thing you do, you are choosing a direction. Your life is a product of choices.” – Dr. Kathleen Hall
“When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.” – William James
“Not making a decision is the worst decision you can make. Indecision will never get you where you want to go.” – Norma Kamali
“Sometimes we’re left with only one choice. The toughest choice of all.” – The Doctor, Doctor Who
“Your decision determines your destination.” – Anonymous
The Conclusion
Wrapping up, these quotes about choices remind us that every decision shapes our future. Whether big or small, every choice carries weight and can lead to new opportunities or challenges. When faced with decisions, these quotes can serve as valuable reminders of the power we hold in shaping our lives.
Take these wise words to heart and reflect on them when you need guidance. Quotes have a unique way of speaking to us, making us think, and inspiring us to take careful steps. Keep these quotes close, and let them help you make thoughtful, meaningful choices in your life.
