Sayings about Choices
No choice is an option. ~ Yiddish Proverbs
There are only two things from which to choose: profit or loss. ~ Indian Proverbs
Choose your neighbor before your house and your companion before the road. ~ Arabian Proverb
If you take too long to choose, you will end up with the leftovers. ~ Croatian Proverbs
Do not choose your wife on your way to the church. ~ Estonian Proverbs
Choose a friend with the eyes of an old man, and a horse with the eyes of a young one. ~ Armenian Proverbs
Who chooses will always have desires. ~ Zanzibar Proverbs
Choose your woman with a velvet glove, but control her with a fist of iron. ~ Czech Proverbs
The bad calligrapher is choosy about his brushes. ~ Korean Proverbs
A burden that one chooses is not felt. ~ Italian Proverbs
A slave does not choose his master. ~ Ghanaian Proverbs
In a choice between bad company and loneliness — the second is preferable. ~ Spanish Proverb
Pardon is the choicest flower of victory. ~ Saudi Arabian Proverb
When you have no choice, mobilize the spirit of courage. ~ Hebrew Proverb
The liar will travel the world over, but chooses not to go back home. ~ Polish Proverbs
The sheep has no choice when in the jaws of the wolf. ~ Chinese Proverb
Do not choose your wife at a dance, but in the field among the harvesters. ~ Czech Proverb
Choose your inn before dark, get back on the road before dawn. ~ Chinese Proverb
Your friend chooses pebbles for you and your enemy counts your faults. ~ Egyptian Proverb
Choose your fellow traveller before you start on your journey. ~ Nigerian Proverbs
A woman and a melon are hard to choose. ~ French Proverb
He that would have a beautiful wife should choose her on a Sunday. ~ Spanish Proverbs
Choose your bedfellows by day. ~ Swedish Proverbs
One should be just as careful in choosing one’s pleasures as in avoiding calamities. ~ Chinese Proverb
When your own funeral is approaching, you don’t pick and choose your grave diggers. ~ Jamaican Proverbs
Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him. ~ Traditional Proverb
To love is to choose. ~ French Proverb
Two cannot fall out if one does not choose. ~ Spanish Proverb
Choose your neighbors before you buy your house. ~ Nigerian Proverb
Choose a wife rather by your ear than by your eye. ~ English Proverbs
If you turn into a dog, be sure to choose a rich family. ~ Japanese Proverb
He that has a choice has trouble. ~ Dutch Proverbs
Be slow in choosing a friend but slower in changing him. ~ Scottish Proverbs
Choose your wife as you wish your children to be. ~ Traditional Proverb
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength. ~ Traditional Proverb
Nice words are free, so choose ones that please another’s ears. ~ Vietnamese Proverbs
Beggars can’t be choosers. ~ Traditional Proverb
Don’t be scared when you have no other choice. ~ Yiddish Proverbs
Choosy pigs never get fat. ~ French Proverb
Choose your lodging before dark and leave before the morning dew. ~ Chinese Proverb
Choose your wife with her nightcap on. ~ Scottish Proverb
A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends. ~ Chinese Proverb
If you really have to sin, then choose a sin that you enjoy. ~ Iranian Proverb
Quotations about Choices
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. ~ George Eliot
You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices. ~ Deepak Chopra
Courage is when you have choices. ~ Terry Anderson
The measure of choosing well is whether a man likes what he has chosen. ~ Charles Lamb
Every choice you make has an end result. ~ Zig Ziglar
There’s a small, choice in rotten apples. ~ William Shakespeare Quotes
Everything is something you decide to do, and there is nothing you have to do. ~ Denis Waitley
Choose your love, Love your choice. ~ Thomas S. Monson
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left for him. ~ Harry Mathews
Love is a choice — not simply, or necessarily, a rational choice, but rather a willingness to be present to others without pretense or guile. ~ Carter Heyward
We are free up to the point of choice, then the choice controls the chooser. ~ Mary Crowley
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. ~ Neil Peart
You have no choice about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again. ~ Pat Riley
Man’s power of choice enables him to think like an angel or a devil, a king or a slave. Whatever he chooses, mind will create and manifest. ~ Frederick Bailes
I choose to be found doing my duty. ~ Abraham Davenport
We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind. ~ Thornton Wilder
You are where you are today because you have chosen to be there. ~ Harry Browne
The difficulty in life is the choice. ~ George Moore
So much to win, so much to lose, No marvel that I fear to choose. ~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it. ~ Pat Rile
When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice. ~ William James
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
Every person has free choice. Free to obey or disobey the Natural Laws. Your choice determines the consequences. Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices. ~ Alfred A. Montapert
The key to your universe is that you can choose. ~ Frederick (Carl) Frieseke
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. ~ Francis Bacon
Choose the way of life. Choose the way of love. Choose the way of caring. Choose the way of goodness. It’s up to you. It’s your choice. ~ Leo Buscaglia
Life is the sum of all your choices. ~ Albert Camus
What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.~ Leo Buscaglia
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. ~ Kahlil Gibran
When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live. ~ Samuel Johnson
Of course, fortune has its part in human affairs, but conduct is really much more important. ~ Jean Detourbey
Seeing the light is a choice, not seeing the light is no choice. ~ Doug Horton
Choice strengthens all. ~ Neal Prescot
Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice. ~ Wayne Dyer
To decide is to walk facing forward with nary a crick in your neck from looking back at the crossroads. ~ Betsy Cañas Garmon
We cannot lead a choiceless life. Every day, every moment, every second, there is a choice. If it were not so, we would not be individuals. ~ Ernest Holmes
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Guess, if you can, and choose, if you dare. ~ Pierre Corneille
Some persons are very decisive when it comes to avoiding decisions. ~ Brendan Francis
Each person designs his own life, freedom gives him the power to carry out his own designs, and power gives the freedom to interfere with the designs of others. ~ Eric Berne
The more equally attractive two alternatives seem, the harder it can be to choose between them — no matter that, to the same degree, the choice can only matter less. ~ Edward Fredkin’s Paradox
Reconsider, v. To seek a justification for a decision already made. ~ Ambrose Bierce
Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant. ~ Anthony Robbins
You are the person who has to decide. Whether you’ll do it or toss it aside. ~ Edgar A. Guest
It is your own convictions which compels you; that is, choice compels choice. ~ Epictetus
There is always a time to make right what is wrong. ~ Susan Griffin
Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both. ~ Tryon Edwards
You can’t choose up sides on a round world. ~ Wayne Dyer
You are either part of the solution or part of the problem. ~ Eldridge Cleaver
The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn. ~ David Russell
A human being is a deciding being. ~ Viktor E. Frankl
It is not something I must do but something I want to do. ~ James Fixx
You’ve got a lot of choices. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you’re not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice. ~ Steven D. Woodhull
Decisions become easier when your will to please God outweighs your will to please the world. ~ Anso Coetzer
Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods. ~ Charles Caleb Colton
The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice! ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
