“We are our choices.”

“No choice we can make as a nation lies between our history and our geography. We can hardly change either of them. They are immutable. The only choice we can make as a nation is the choice about our future.”

Paul Keating (1944) Australian politician, 24th Prime Minister of Australia

“We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.”

William Glasser (1925–2013) American psychiatrist

“Our choice of partners is perhaps the clearest single statement of our choice of values. Therefore, when we blame our partner for anything, we should really be confronting ourselves. Not as in “Yes, I made a bad choice,” but as in “How does this choice reflect my values?””

Warren Farrell (1943) author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate

“… it is by our actions that we are destroyed or saved. The choice is ours.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

“We Are The Sum Total Of Our Choices…”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

“I think when we make choices—for
each choice is individual of the choices we have made before—we must examine not
only our reasons for making them but what result they will have, and whether good people will be hurt by our decisions.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

“Authenticity is a collection of choices that we have to make every day. It's about the choice to show up and be real. The choice to be honest. The choice to let our true selves be seen.”

Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor

“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.”

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States

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

Wayne W. Dyer (1940–2015) American writer