Difficult Choices Quotes

• In a way, forgiving is only for the brave. It is for those people who are willing to confront their pain, accept themselves as permanently changed, and make difficult choices. Forgivers are not content to be stuck in a quagmire. They reject the possibility that the rest of their lives will be determined by the unjust and injurious acts of another person.

  Gordon Dalbey

  Pain, People, Brave

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• You have to make difficult choices in your life, and you just have to be happy with them.

  Lori Loughlin

  Choices, Difficult

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There was a real choice when [Barack Obama] became president. It was a very difficult choice - to say, "We're not going to hold senior officials to account with the same laws that every other citizen in the country is held to," or "This is a nation that believes in the rule of law."

  Edward Snowden

  Senior, Country, Real

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• I want us to do more to support people who are struggling to balance family and work. I've heard from so many of you about the difficult choices you face and the stresses that you're under. So let's have paid family leave, earned sick days. Let's be sure we have affordable child care and debt-free college.

  Hillary Clinton

  Children, Stress, Struggle

  "Transcript of the First Debate". www.nytimes.com. September 27, 2016.

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• When certain causes become prairie fires, politicians make difficult choices, and often at the expense of someone like Jeremiah Wright and Walter Jenkins. That's the cruel nature of American politics, where the end becomes the consummate objective, and sometimes the means to get there come at a great price.

  Bill Moyers

  Mean, Fire, Causes

  "Bill Moyers on His Legendary Journalism Career: 'Democracy Should Be a Brake on Unbridled Greed and Power'". Interview with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. June 8, 2011.

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• To nourish the soul means to become kinder, more compassionate, wiser, and more loving, often through the making of difficult choices that foster growth rather than safety. The nourishment and growth of the soul is the very reason for human life.

  Joan Z. Borysenko

  Mean, Safety, Soul

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• In short, the elimination of the financial legacy of Reaganomics could force the United States to make some exceptionally difficult choices indeed.

  Robert Gilpin

  United States, Legacy, Financial

  Robert Gilpin (2016). “The Political Economy of International Relations”, p.349, Princeton University Press

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• The quality of health care continues to improve, and people are living longer, but these developments mean that we're likely to eventually find ourselves in a situation in which we're forced to make difficult choices about our parents, other loved ones, or even ourselves that ultimately boil down to calculations of worth and value.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Mean, People, Parent

  "The Art Of Choosing: The Decisions We Make Everyday of our Lives, What They Say About Us and How We Can Improve Them". Book by Sheena Iyengar, March 2010.

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• There came a point when I wanted to do television, and I didn't think the Afro was going to play, so I made a very difficult choice - to straighten my hair.

  Jami Floyd

  Thinking, Play, Hair

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Mostly, the best way to be the next Mark Zuckerberg is to make difficult choices.

  Seth Godin

  Zuckerberg, Way, Next

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• As I grew up, I was interested in other areas, too, especially literature. It became a major love of mine. Later, it became a difficult choice for me as to whether to major in music or literature. It wasn't until my 30s that I began a profession in music.

  Tom Glazer

  Literature, Grew, Profession

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• Our mission is to report these horrors of war with accuracy and without prejudice. We always have to ask ourselves whether the level of risk is worth the story. What is bravery, and what is bravado? Journalists covering combat shoulder great responsibilities and face difficult choices. Sometimes they pay the ultimate price.

  Marie Colvin

  War, Responsibility, Bravery

  "Opinion: Colvin fought injustice, armed only with words and images" by Hannah Storm, www.cnn.com. February 23, 2012.

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• Before the boat docked, however, he confessed because he was contemplating running for president, he couldn't separate from his wife. I believed him when he told me he faced a difficult choice between pursuing personal happiness and his political destiny.

  Donna Rice Hughes

  Running, Destiny, Wife

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• Every adaptation requires that the screenwriter make difficult choices - and in particular, difficult cuts.

  David Benioff

  Cutting, Adaptation, Particular

  "Web Access... David Benioff". www.bbc.co.uk.

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• Unfortunately, to succeed in business, organizations need to make difficult choices all the time-what to do and, more important, what not to do. The truth of the matter is that whenever we make a difficult choice, some people will win and some will lose. The winners will be happy and the losers unhappy. It's impossible to make everybody happy all the time. If everybody in your organization is happy, that may be because you're failing to lead them.

  Constantinos C. Markides

  Happy, Winning, Organization

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• In a time of tight budgets, difficult choices have to be made. We must make sure our very limited resources are spent on priorities. I believe we should have no higher priority than investing in our children's classrooms and in their future.

  Bob Riley

  Children, Believe, Should Have

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  If you'd given me the choice of going out and beating four men and smashing a goal in from thirty yards against Liverpool or going to bed with Miss World, it would have been a difficult choice. Luckily, I had both.

  George Best

  Men, Goal, Missing

  "The Afterlife". Book by Paul Morley, April 23, 2009.

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• Love is a commitment that will be tested in the most vulnerable areas of spirituality, a commitment that will force you to make some very difficult choices. It is a commitment that demands that you deal with your lust, your greed, your pride, your power, your desire to control, your temper, your patience, and every area of temptation that the Bible clearly talks about. It demands the quality of commitment that Jesus demonstrates in His relationship to us.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Relationship, Jesus, Commitment

  Ravi Zacharias (2005). “I, Isaac, Take Thee, Rebekah: Moving from Romance to Lasting Love”, p.36, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Every individual is a meeting ground for many different allegiances, and sometimes these loyalties conflict with one another and confront the person who harbors them with difficult choices

  Amin Maalouf

  Loyalty, Different, Sometimes

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• Beautiful sentences pop into my head. Beautiful sentences that aren't always absolutely accurate. Then, I have to choose between the beautiful sentence and being absolutely accurate. It can be a difficult choice.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Beautiful, Pops, Accurate

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