Choice & Decision Quotes

The average American expends more time becoming informed about choosing a car than choosing a candidate. But, then, the consequences of the former choice are immediate and discernible.

When 'happiness' eludes us - as, eventually, it always will - we have the invitation to examine our programmed responses and to exercise our power to choose again.

A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.

Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.

When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier.

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.

Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail. Deficiency in decision-making ranks much higher than lack of specific knowledge or technical know-how as an indicator of leadership failure.

When you're a man, you want to make decisions for your family, and sometimes the lady doesn't see what you see.

In this life, we have to make many choices. Some are very important choices. Some are not. Many of our choices are between good and evil. The choices we make, however, determine to a large extent our happiness or our unhappiness, because we have to live with the consequences of our choices.

Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

The difficulty in life is the choice.

Every decision we make - when we choose a vehicle, when we pump gas into that vehicle, when we order food - is not just a personal lifestyle choice. It's an environmental and moral choice.

Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

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

Obedience brings peace in decision making. If we have firmly made up our minds to follow the commandments, we will not have to redecide which path to take when temptation comes our way.

Clearly, the decision-making that we rely on in society is fallible. It's highly fallible, and we should know that.

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.

Our life is the sum total of all the decisions we make every day, and those decisions are determined by our priorities.

It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.

I believe happiness is a choice. Some days it is a very difficult choice.

The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

You can't make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable.

There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.

Design is nothing if not decision making.

Some of our important choices have a time line. If we delay a decision, the opportunity is gone forever. Sometimes our doubts keep us from making a choice that involves change. Thus an opportunity may be missed.

If you have a family mission statement that clarifies what your purpose is, then you use that as the criterion by which you make the decisions.

Leadership demands that we make tough choices.

Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.

Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.

Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

Scientifically, happiness is a choice. It is a choice about where your single processor brain will devote its finite resources as you process the world.

Decisions are the frequent fabric of our daily design.

When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier.

To me, success is choice and opportunity.

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.

God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.

In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

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.

The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.

My interest in well-being evolved from my interest in decision making - from raising the question of whether people know what they will want in the future and whether the things that people want for themselves will make them happy.

Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.

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.

People of the future may suffer not from an absence of choice but from a paralysing surfeit of it. They may turn out to be victims of that peculiarly super-industrial dilemma: overchoice.

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.

Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.

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.

At the heart of both democracy and capitalism is a simple assumption that, across the board, people make free and relatively rational decisions: that we are, to borrow a medical term, Gillick Competent.

You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

A positive attitude is a choice, like walking to the other side of a street to avoid trouble or making a 180-degree turn when you feel you're heading in the wrong direction.

Every day brings new choices.

We have to choose every day to be active participants. To wake up in the morning and choose this life and make something of it is an incredible thing. Not many living creatures have that option. We have so many opportunities and options - it's a huge burden, but it's also the most freeing part of our lives.

From my time in Health I know that choice empowers people lives.

Leadership is about making the right decision and the best decision before, sometimes, it becomes entirely popular.

Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct.

The remarkable thing is, we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice.

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.

Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because we are driven into a corner and must say something.

Time plays a role in almost every decision. And some decisions define your attitude about time.