31 Quotes About the Power of Choice

There is mighty power in each tiny choice - the power to define our lives.

May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears. – Nelson Mandela

In every single thing you do, you are choosing a direction. Your life is a product of choices. – Dr. Kathleen Hall

Life is a matter of choices, and every choice you make makes you. – John C. Maxwell

It is our choices… that show what we are, far more than our abilities . – J. K. Rowling

Sometimes it’s the smallest decisions that can change your life forever. - Keri Russell

Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision. - Tony Robbins

Choices are the hinges of destiny. - Edwin Markham

I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime. - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Life is about choices. Some we regret, some we’re proud of. Some will haunt us forever. The message: we are what we chose to be. - Graham Brown

The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms. - Neal Boortz

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.
- Stephen Covey

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility. - Eleanor Roosevelt

I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make. We waste so much time making decisions based on someone else's idea of our happiness - what will make you a good citizen or a good wife or daughter or actress. Nobody says, 'Just be happy - go be a cobbler or go live with goats. - Sandra Bullock

Make bold choices and make mistakes. It's all those things that add up to the person you become. - Angelina Jolie

When your dream is bigger than you are, you only have two choices: give up or get help.
- John C. Maxwell

Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.  - Roy T. Bennett

But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise.” - Stephen R. Covey

In the end that was the choice you made, and it doesn't matter how hard it was to make it. It matters that you did. - Cassandra Clare

There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it. - Shannon L. Alder

These are the times for real choices and not false ones. We are at the moment when our lives must be placed on the line if our nation is to survive its own folly. Every man of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits his convictions, but we must all protest. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Sometimes you have to choose between a bunch of wrong choices and no right ones. You just have to choose which wrong choices feels the least wrong. - Colleen Hoover

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing. - Theodore Roosevelt

Heroes are made by the paths they choose, not the powers they are graced with. - Brodi Ashton

Beliefs are choices. First you choose your beliefs. Then your beliefs affect your choices. - Roy T. Bennett

The choices you make now, the people you surround yourself with, they all have the potential to affect your life, even who you are, forever. -Sarah Dessen

I thought, I need to be more cautious about my choices - it reflects on who I am. -Heath Ledger

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves. - Thomas Merton

Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe. - Phil McGraw

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

Freedom is realizing that you have a choice. - T.F. Hodge

Choose your love. Love your choice. - Thomas Monson