Quotes about Choices

We tend to become the decisions we make. The more we choose something, the more we become that something. We are all in the process of solidifying our identities by the decisions we make. With each decision we make, we pick up momentum in the direction of that decision.

Our choices matter. Much hangs in the balance. Our freedom is God's risk and our dignity.

If I ever write a book, 'I Should Have Worn Comfortable Shoes' would be the title.

You don't want to get to the end of life's journey and discover you never left the interstate.

To the student I would say, "Life is principally multiple choice, but at the end there's a tough essay question."

Our destiny hides among our free choices, disguised as the free-est of all.

Whoever neglects old friends for the sake of new deserves what e gets if he loses both

If leaders exploit public fears to herd people in directions they might not otherwise choose, then fear itself can quickly become a self-perpetuating and freewheeling force that drains national will and weakens national character, diverting attention from real threats deserving of healthy and appropriate fear and sowing confusion about the essential choices that every nation must constantly make about its future.

There is a wrong way of staying in the world and a wrong way of fleeing from it. In both cases we are fashioning ourselves according to the world.

You either spend your life preparing or you spend your life repairing.

There are generations yet unborn, whose very lives will be shifted and shaped by the moves you make and the actions you take.

Nothing shapes your life more than the commitments you choose to make.