Quotes About Choices, Decisions, and Direction

Let these quotes inspire you to find your path and turn your dreams into reality.

“May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.” 

Nelson Mandela

“To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.”

— Maxwell Maltz

“Every day brings new choices.”

— Martha Beck

“There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.”

Denis Waitley

“If you chase two rabbits, both will escape.”

— Unknown

 

“One day or day one. You decide.”

— Unknown

“You can either experience the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The choice is yours.” 

— Unknown

“Attitude is everything, so pick a good one.”

— Wayne Dyer

“There are only two options regarding commitment; you’re either in or you’re out. There’s no such thing as life in-between.”

— Pat Riley

“You can choose courage, or you can choose comfort, but you cannot choose both.”

— Brene Brown

“The man of decision cannot be stopped! The man of indecision cannot be started! Take your own choice.”

— Napoleon Hill

 

“Choose to be optimistic. It feels better.”

Dalai Lama

“You and only you are responsible for your life choices and decisions.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

“In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or step back into safety.”

— Abraham Maslow

“We make our choices, then our choices make us.”

 Unknown

“Don’t mourn over your bad decisions. Just start overcoming them with good ones.”

— Joyce Meyer

“Never think that someone else knows what’s best for you.”

— Maria Shriver

 

“You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.”

— Dr. Seuss

“It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.”

Jean Nidetch

“Never make a permanent decision based on a temporary storm. No matter how raging the billows are today, remind yourself, ‘This too shall pass’!”

— T.D. Jakes

“Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.”

Wayne Dyer

“The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.”

— Voltaire

“A decision made from fear is always the wrong decision.”

— Tony Robbins

 

“If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.”

Neil Pearteady

“Every choice you make has an end result.”

Zig Ziglar

“Once a decision is made, you should stop worrying and start working. It’s not always what we know that makes it a good decision. It is what we do to implement and execute it that makes it a good decision.”

— John C. Maxwell

“In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time.”

— John Lubbock

“Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.”

― Roy T. Bennett

“Decision is the ultimate power. Decisions shape destiny.”

— Tony Robbins

 

“Ignore the noise and follow your own choice.”

— Unknown

“The most difficult thing is the decision to act!”

— Amelia Earhart

“In every single thing you do, you are choosing a direction. Your life is a product of choices.”

— Dr. Kathleen Hall

“If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.”

— Lao Tzu

“Where you are going to spend your time and your energy is one of the most important decisions you get to make in life.”

— Jeff Bezos

“No matter what the situation, remind yourself, I have a choice.”

— Deepak Chopra

 

“You cannot make progress without making decisions.”

— Jim Rohn

“Mindfulness is a pause – the space between stimulus and response: that’s where choice lies.”

— Tara Brach

“Every decision you make reflects your evaluation of who you are.”

— Marianne Williamson

“And in life, it is all about choices we make, and how the direction of our lives comes down to the choices we choose.”

— Catherine Pulsifer

“When a decision has to be made, make it. There is no totally right time for anything.”

— George S. Patton Jr.

“The direction you choose to face determines whether you’re standing at the end or the beginning of a road.” 

— Richelle E. Goodrich

 

“Go in the direction of where your peace is coming from.”

— C. JoyBell C.

“At every moment, we always have a choice, even if it feels as if we don’t. Sometimes that choice may simply be to think a more positive thought.”

— Tina Turner

“Sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the same.”

— Unknown

“Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.” 

— Abraham Maslow

“What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.”

― Madeleine Albright

“At any given moment, you have the power to say: this is not how the story is going to end.”

― Christine Mason Miller

 

“There are only two options: make progress or make excuses.”

— Unknown

“Any path you choose will likely be full of ups and downs, so choose the ones that bring you the most joy and make you feel most alive.”

― Hilary Swank

“Choose the positive. You have a choice. You are the master of your attitude. Choose the positive, the constructive.”

― Bruce Lee