Welcome to Choose Quotes, your destination for inspiration, wisdom, and insight through the power of words. Whether you seek motivation for personal growth, enlightenment in times of uncertainty, or simply a dose of inspiration to brighten your day, you’ve come to the right place. Words have a remarkable ability to uplift, empower, and resonate with us on a profound level, transcending boundaries of time, culture, and circumstance. Here, we celebrate the beauty and impact of language, offering a curated collection of quotes from a diverse array of thinkers, writers, and luminaries.
Within these pages, you’ll discover a treasure trove of quotes spanning topics ranging from love and resilience to success and perseverance. Each quote is a beacon of wisdom, encapsulating the essence of human experience in a few carefully chosen words. Whether you’re seeking solace in times of adversity, seeking motivation to pursue your dreams, or simply looking to reflect on life’s profound truths, our collection is sure to offer something for everyone. So, dive in, explore, and allow the timeless wisdom of these quotes to illuminate your path forward.
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If I didn’t choose art, I would have become an astronomer. Peter Max
It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world. John Steinbeck
We cannot stop the winter or the summer from coming. We cannot stop the spring or the fall or make them other than they are. They are gifts from the universe that we cannot refuse. But we can choose what we will contribute to life when each arrives. Gary Zukav
Choose your friends wisely, and also choose friends that you can trust. Elyn Saks
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another. William James
Family politics are worse than world politics. That’s all I can say. You don’t get to choose your family; you get to choose your friends. Your family is imposed upon you. Michael Cimino
Choose people who lift you up. Michelle Obama
Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble. Yehuda Berg
Choose your friends with caution; plan your future with purpose, and frame your life with faith. Thomas S. Monson
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. Neil Peart
Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god. Napoleon Bonaparte
‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less.’ Lewis Carroll
Of two evils, choose neither. Charles Spurgeon
One must choose in life between boredom and suffering. Madame de Stael
When we believe the best of people, we let go of each thing they do that is hurtful to us. And we choose to think things like, ‘I don’t believe they meant to hurt me.’ ‘Maybe they’re having a bad day or don’t feel well.’ ‘They probably don’t even realize how they sound.’ Joyce Meyer
When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil. Max Lerner
The most important thing is, whatever you do decide to choose, take it seriously and do your best. Tom Sturridge
For a dinner date, I eat light all day to save room, then I go all in: I choose this meal and this order, and I choose you, the person across from me, to share it with. There’s a beautiful intimacy in a meal like that. Anthony Bourdain
The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose. Thornton Wilder
I can have as many bad days as anyone. But I choose to say, ‘I’m just fine.’ Mary J. Blige
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose. Tennessee Williams
The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission. John F. Kennedy
I’m not going to focus on the bad days. I choose to live in gratitude. Marcela Valladolid
Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you. Wayne Dyer
We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours. Dag Hammarskjold
Truth is, I’ll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour. Tom Hanks
Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who’ll get the blame. Bertrand Russell
Buy less. Choose well. Make it last. Quality, not quantity. Everybody’s buying far too many clothes. Vivienne Westwood
I’ll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide. Emily Bronte
You can’t choose who you fall in love with, you know? Kate Winslet
Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you choose to be. Joy Page
Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. Laurence J. Peter
Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy. Joseph Campbell
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success – or are they holding you back? W. Clement Stone
You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die, or when. You can only decide how you’re going to live. Now. Joan Baez
I choose to live, not just exist. James Hetfield
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change. Frank Lloyd Wright
A people free to choose will always choose peace. Ronald Reagan
Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye. Thomas Fuller
The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider… the riders contend for its possession. Martin Luther
Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Be nice to your children. After all, they are going to choose your nursing home. Steven Wright
Whenever you’re faced with an explanation of what’s going on in Washington, the choice between incompetence and conspiracy, always choose incompetence. Charles Krauthammer
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time. Denis Waitley
Always work hard and have fun in what you do because I think that’s when you’re more successful. You have to choose to do it. Simone Biles
The people you surround yourself with influence your behaviors, so choose friends who have healthy habits. Dan Buettner
If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes. Charles Lindbergh
I’m very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn’t choose. Taylor Swift
Not everyone gets to be a winner unless they choose to be. Winning is a mentality. Valentin Chmerkovskiy
A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. Lysander Spooner
Life is very, very short, and you can choose to live it how you want. You can choose to dumb yourself down and not express yourself just so you can fit in, just so people won’t dislike you. Gerard Way
You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give. E. O. Wilson
The most important thing is that we are on the right path, and we will not deviate from it, even in the face of strong temptation to choose temporary gains over long-term benefits. Yemi Osinbajo
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself. Henry David Thoreau
I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear. Oprah Winfrey
When you invest your time, you make a goal and a decision of something that you want to accomplish. Whether it’s make good grades in school, be a good athlete, be a good person, go down and do some community service and help somebody who’s in need, whatever it is you choose to do, you’re investing your time in that. Nick Saban
Every human has four endowments – self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change. Stephen Covey
Choose to focus your time, energy and conversation around people who inspire you, support you and help you to grow you into your happiest, strongest, wisest self. Karen Salmansohn
Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice. Ayn Rand
If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly. Thomas Sowell
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. Oscar Wilde
As I get older, the more I stay focused on the acceptance of myself and others, and choose compassion over judgment and curiosity over fear. Tracee Ellis Ross
When it comes to your partner, you have to choose the right person, knowing you can live with them for the rest of your life, learn from each other and grow in every way. Shamita Shetty
To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less. Plato
I don’t have to choose between high fashion or streetwear. My brand reminds me that it doesn’t have to fit in a box. It can just be in a gray area. Virgil Abloh
Spending time with negative people can be the fastest way to ruin a good mood. Their pessimistic outlooks and gloomy attitude can decrease our motivation and change the way we feel. But allowing a negative person to dictate your emotions gives them too much power in your life. Make a conscious effort to choose your attitude. Amy Morin
Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There’s going to be stress in life, but it’s your choice whether you let it affect you or not. Valerie Bertinelli
The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes. Warren Buffett
An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose. Langston Hughes
I know that in life there will be sickness, devastation, disappointments, heartache – it’s a given. What’s not a given is the way you choose to get through it all. If you look hard enough, you can always find the bright side. Rashida Jones
If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country. E. M. Forster
I am happy because I’m grateful. I choose to be grateful. That gratitude allows me to be happy. Will Arnett
When you choose your friends, don’t be short-changed by choosing personality over character. W. Somerset Maugham
God gives us our relatives, thank God we can choose our friends. Ethel Watts Mumford
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
Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education. Franklin D. Roosevelt
As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too. Johnny Depp
Your destiny is to fulfill those things upon which you focus most intently. So choose to keep your focus on that which is truly magnificent, beautiful, uplifting and joyful. Your life is always moving toward something. Ralph Marston
Nobody’s life is ever all balanced. It’s a conscious decision to choose your priorities every day. Elisabeth Hasselbeck
See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil… I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life. Moses
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. Unknown
Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose. Margaret Thatcher
I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life. Lady Gaga
Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two. John Cheever
You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past. Richard Bach
To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there. Kofi Annan
Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences. Eckhart Tolle
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices. Theodor W. Adorno
I like fish, and I also like bear’s paws. If I cannot have the two together, I will let the fish go, and take the bear’s paws. So, I like life, and I also like righteousness. If I cannot keep the two together, I will let life go, and choose righteousness. Mencius
If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion. Noam Chomsky
People can choose between the sweet lie or the bitter truth. I say the bitter truth, but many people don’t want to hear it. Avigdor Lieberman
New technology is not good or evil in and of itself. It’s all about how people choose to use it. David Wong
Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body. Pythagoras
It doesn’t matter where you come from, what you have or don’t have, what you lack, or what you have too much of. But all you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to. Stephen Curry
I have moments where I miss my old self. But I think anyone can get caught up in what we used to have. But at the same time, we can choose to focus on the beauty of now. Steve Gleason
I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman. Anais Nin
You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going to happen in your life. Do everything you can – prepare, pray and achieve – to make it happen. Ben Carson
Remember that you don’t choose love; love chooses you. All you really can do is accept it for all its mystery when it comes into your life. Feel the way it fills you to overflowing then reach out and give it away. Kent Nerburn
If you choose to do something, attack it. You can hate me, but there’s one thing you can’t say about me – that I didn’t attack it. David Goggins