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Choices Proverbs



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

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