Have you ever looked at a not-so-favorable situation in your life and thought it was happening to you because of some thing or some one and you didn’t have a choice in the matter? Well, while you may think you had no choice, I beg to differ.
We all have choices, and we make them all the time – every day, every hour, every minute, every second. Everything going on in our lives has to do with a choice that we have made – about what to do, how to feel, or how to react – from the simplest of actions to ones that are life-changing.
If you continuously believe that you do not have a choice over your circumstance, that’s exactly how it’s going to be. When you recognize that your life and everything you do is essentially a choice you make, that’s when a shift occurs.
Rather than blaming your external environment for what you’re facing, you will take action and become proactive in getting what you want. Rather than feeling victimized by your situation, you will gain power over it. Things will start shaping themselves into what you want them to be, because you are actively making the choices to do so.
So without further ado, I give you my top 20 quotes on choices:
“In the end that was the choice you made, and it doesn’t matter how hard it was to make it. It matters that you did.” ~Cassandra Clare
“We don’t get to choose what is true. We only get to choose what we do about it.” ~Kami Garcia
“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.” ~Theodore Roosevelt
“The choices you make now, the people you surround yourself with, they all have the potential to affect your life, even who you are, forever.” ~Sarah Dessen
“There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.” ~Shannon L. Alder
“We all make choices, but in the end our choices make us.” ~Ken Levine
“There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.” ~Denis Waitley
“May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.” ~Nelson Mandela
“Choices made, whether bad or good, follow you forever and affect everyone in their path one way or another.” ~J.E.B. Spredemann
“You have two choices in life… Choice one is to be the same and be like everyone else… Choice two is to be yourself and be a difference-maker.” ~Jazlyn Roehl
“Whatever you decide, don’t let it be because you don’t think you have a choice.” ~Hannah Harrington
“You can enjoy anything if you make up your mind to.” ~Joyce Meyer
“Today is a new day. It’s a day you have never seen before and will never see again. Stop telling yourself the ‘same crap, different day’ lie! How many days has that lie stolen from you? Seize the wonder and uniqueness of today! Recognize that throughout this beautiful day, you have an incredible amount of opportunities to move your life into the direction you want it to go.” ~Steve Maraboli
“I am sorry my decisions do not meet with your approval, but nevertheless, they are mine, and the consequences are also mine.” ~Rachel Caine
“Our choices determine our destiny.” ~A.R. Bernard
“Intentional living is the art of making our own choices before others’ choices make us.” ~Richie Norton
“Choose thoughts that give you the emotions of being alive and excited about life.” ~Bryant McGill
“There are always consequences to wrong choices.” ~Jim George
“Real choices – the ones that changed you and shaped you – were never made with the head, but on the beat of a heart that saw a future it couldn’t live without.” ~Dianna Hardy
“Choose yourself. Define yourself. Love yourself.” ~Lailah Gifty Akita
This song made me smile… 
I mean, I chose to smile while listening to this song:
