Life is made up of an infinite amount of choices. Most decisions, such as what you’ll eat for lunch today, are small and only slightly impactful, but it’s the big decisions—the ones that can change your life forever—that are tough to make.
If you choose to confront the options before you with courage and confidence, you open yourself to a fulfilling path of your own design, filled with numerous possibilities. Rather than procrastinating in fear of making the wrong decision, weigh your options and act on the best one—revel in the chance to create the life you want to live.
To inspire your next big decision, here are 40 insightful life choices quotes to get you going.
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Inspirational Life Choices Quotes
- “Sometimes it’s the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.” —Keri Russell
- “We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.” —Stephen Covey
- “Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent and committed decision.” —Tony Robbins
- “Life presents you with so many decisions. A lot of times, they’re right in front of your face and they’re really difficult, but we must make them.” —Brittany Murphy
- “Choices are the hinges of destiny.” —Edwin Markham
- “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.” —Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
- “I think that there is something beautiful about mortality. It makes our decisions mean more.” —Brandon Boyd
- “It doesn’t matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.” —Jim Rohn
- “Life is a matter of choices, and every choice you make makes you.” —John C. Maxwell
- “The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.” —Thornton Wilder
- “The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.” —Neal Boortz
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Deep Quotes About Life Choices
- “Decisions are the frequent fabric of our daily design.” —Don Yaeger
- “Life is about choices. Some we regret, some we’re proud of. Some will haunt us forever. The message: We are what we chose to be.” —Graham Brown
- “Your life is a result of the choices you have made. If you don’t like your life, start making better choices.” —Zig Ziglar
- “Everything you are comes from your choices.” —Jeff Bezos
- “Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.” —Wayne Dyer
- “Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you. Go outside and turn your attention to the many miracles around you. This five-minute-a-day regimen of appreciation and gratitude will help you to focus your life in awe.” —Wayne Dyer
- “When something bad happens you have three choices. You can either let it define you, let it destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you.”— Dr. Seuss
- “You and only you are responsible for your life choices and decisions.” —Robert T. Kiyosaki
- “You cannot control the behavior of others, but you can always choose how you respond to it.” —Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
- “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, City of Glass
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- “Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices. Then our choices make us.” —Anne Frank
- “Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that’s the one that is going to require the most from you. Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it?” —Caroline Myss
- “We are our choices.” ―Jean-Paul Sartre
- “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
- “There is a choice you have to make in everything you do. So keep in mind that in the end, the choice you make, makes you.” —John Wooden
- “I’ve realized that being happy is a choice.” —Angelina Jolie
- “You are the master of your attitude. You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control the way you think about all the events. You always have a choice. You can choose to face them with a positive mental attitude.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
- “One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.” ―Shannon L. Alder
Short Quotes About Choices In Life
- “Choose your love, love your choice.” ―Thomas S. Monson
- “In the age of information, ignorance is a choice.” —Donald Miller
- “Heroes are made by the paths they choose, not the powers they are graced with.” ―Brodi Ashton, Everneath
- “Leadership is a choice, not a rank.” —Simon Sinek
- “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” —Maya Angelou
- “Decision making is easy when your values are clear.” —Roy Disney
- “Some of our important choices have a timeline. If we delay a decision, the opportunity is gone forever. Sometimes our doubts keep us from making a choice that involves change. Thus an opportunity may be missed.” —James E. Faust
- “You can’t make someone else’s choices. You shouldn’t let someone else make yours.”
- —Colin Powell
- “We may think that our decisions are guided purely by logic and rationality, but our emotions always play a role in our good decision making process.” —Salma Stockdale
- “Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.” —Paul Tillich
- “Don’t waiver. Make a decision. Do it now.” —Billy Graham
- “Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.” —Napoleon Bonaparte
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This article was updated June 2024. Photo by Roman Samborskyi/Shutterstock.com
