100 Top-Notch Quotes about Choice

"Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny."

Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC) was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. His writings cover many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology. Together with Plato and Socrates (Plato's teacher), Aristotle is one of the most important founding figures in Western philosophy. Aristotle's writings were the first to create a comprehensive system of Western philosophy, encompassing morality and aesthetics, logic and science, politics and metaphysics.


"Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose."

Richard David Bach (born 23 June 1936) is an American writer. He claims to be a direct descendant of Johann Sebastian Bach.


"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."

Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919) was the 26th President of the United States. He is famous for his energetic personality, range of interests and achievements, leadership of the Progressive Movement, and his "cowboy" image and robust masculinity.


"I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions."

Stephen R. Covey (born October 24, 1932) wrote the best-selling book, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.


"We can choose to throw stones, to stumble on them, to climb over them, or to build with them."

William Arthur Ward (1921–1994) is one of America's most quoted writers of inspirational maxims.


"Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future."

Deepak Chopra (born October 22, 1946) is an Indian American public speaker, and writer on Ayurveda, spirituality and mind-body medicine.


"Since you are the one who has to live with your choices, be sure they are your own."

Alan Cohen (-) is the author of 27 popular inspirational books.


"Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices. Then our choices make us."

Annelies Marie (12 June 1929 – February or March 1945) was a German-Dutch diarist of Jewish heritage. One of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust, she gained fame posthumously with the publication of The Diary of a Young Girl (originally Het Achterhuis in Dutch; English: The Secret Annex), in which she documents her life in hiding from 1942 to 1944, during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. It is one of the world's best known books and has been the basis for several plays and films.


"What the heart loves, the will chooses, and the mind justifies."

Thomas Cranmer (2 July 1489 – 21 March 1556) was a leader of the English Reformation and Archbishop of Canterbury during the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI and, for a short time, Mary I.


"Life is a series of choices that are made in the present moment."

Darren Main (born January 20, 1971) is a yoga teacher and author currently living in San Francisco. He has written largely about Eastern spirituality for a more modern and Western audience.