Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done it's always your choice.

The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

One of the hardest decisions you'll ever face in life is choosing whether to walk away or try harder.

I’ve learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.

With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.

You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice.

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

You have two choices: to control your mind or to let your mind control you.

Wrong is wrong only when you are at liberty to choose.

If you're looking for the safe choice, you shouldn't be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.

We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.

To say that any people are not fit for freedom is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

Militant feminists are pro-choice because it's their ultimate avenue of power over men. And believe me, to them it is a question of power. It is their attempt to impose their will on the rest of society, particularly on men.

God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.

Some choices we live not only once, but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.

You can't make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural and enjoyable.

You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox.

It wasn't my choice to be an open book, but when people found out what my life was like when I was 14 or 15, I didn't deny it. I think the more imperfect you are the more human you are.

The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice.

The self is not something ready-made but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

At fifteen, life had taught me undeniably that surrender in its place was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.

The history of free men is never really written by chance, but by choice, their choice!

From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.

As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too.

I will offer a choice, not an echo.

Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.

A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.

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

Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it or change it.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.

Did you know that the White House drug test is multiple choice?

My three addictions of choice are food, love and work.

We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it's a continuing choice.

Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin.

In the final choice, a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much power you have.

Every choice you make has an end result.

A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.

Inflamed by greed, incensed by hate, confused by delusion, overcome by them, obsessed by mind, a man chooses for his own affliction for others' affliction for the affliction of both, and experiences pain and grief.

The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.

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.

Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.

I think being funny is not anyone's first choice.

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence and love and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.

When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen.

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory or one of unthinkable horror.

When making your choice in life do not neglect to live.

From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. - Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr Collins and I will never see you again if you do.

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words, it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what is best for me.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care, for people will hear them and be influenced by them, for good or ill.

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy therefore is education.

Now you have a choice: we can give more tax breaks to corporations that ship jobs overseas, or we can start rewarding companies that open new plants and train new workers and create new jobs here in the United States of America.

The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.

America's a melting pot, all races, cultures, religious choices.

You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.

Sometimes I do wonder what college would have been like. But I made my decision.

I'm a Christian by choice.

Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me 'This is going to take more than one night.'

We must as second best... take the least of the evils.

I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word and thought throughout our lifetime.

People say I make strange choices, but they're not strange for me. My sickness is that I'm fascinated by human behavior, by what's underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

God made a very obvious choice when he made me voluptuous, why would I go against what he decided for me? My limbs work so I'm not going to complain about the way my body is shaped.

In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.

As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.

On this narrow planet we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us - ah! what a dream to live in that! - the other stifles us at the first breath.

The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding.

For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.

I fought all my life for women to make their own choices in their personal and professional lives. I made mine.

A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.

I want all this loud profanity in the street stopped. I want people to think about choices.

Opportunity expands when there is excellence and choice in education, when taxes are lowered, when every citizen has affordable portable health insurance, and when constitutional freedoms are preserved.

Every television show you go on is a choice.

We don't have any choice but to pay it back, but it shouldn't have been borrowed to begin with.

The difference between men and women is that, if given the choice between saving the life of an infant or catching a fly ball, a woman will automatically choose to save the infant without even considering if there's a man on base.

I may neither choose whom I would nor refuse whom I dislike, so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go.

Let's suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about what to tell yourself about the abuse.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.

Now is the moment when we can stand up and say 'I'm an American. I make my destiny. And we deserve better! My children deserve better! My family deserves better. My country deserves better!' So here we stand. Americans have a choice.

I've realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way, or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don't trust my instincts - That is when I get in trouble.