Important Choices Quotes

• Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

  Steve Jobs

  Life, Fear, Failure

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

  Steve Jobs

  Graduation, Heart, Stanford University

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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  Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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  Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

  Steve Jobs

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• The most important choice you make is what you choose to make important.

  Michael Neill

  Choices You Make, You Choose, Choices

  Michael Neill (2006). “You Can Have What You Want”, p.200, Hay House, Inc

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• I believe your attitude is the most important choice you can make.

  Lou Holtz

  Attitude, Believe, Choices

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• The decision to believe is the  most important choice we ever make. It shapes all our other decisions.

  L. Whitney Clayton

  Believe, Decision, Shapes

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• The most important choices you make are the choices about how you see yourself, the Universe, and your relationship to the Universe.

  Gary Zukav

  Choices You Make, Our Relationship, Universe

  Gary Zukav (2012). “Mind of the Soul”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Theory, Left Behind, Behinds

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit”, p.169, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Politics is still crucially important. Our choices are vital, and we've got to make them and not just say, 'Oh they're all the same.' They are all the same in certain ways, alas - a political animal is such an animal.

  Dennis Potter

  Animal, Political, Politics

  "An interview with Dennis Potter: an edited transcript of Melvyn Bragg's interview with Dennis Potter, broadcast on the 5th of April 1994".

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• Some of our important choices have a time line. 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

  Opportunity, Decision, Forever

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• We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.

  E. O. Wilson

  Motivational, Running, Knowledge

  E. O. Wilson (2014). “Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge”, p.399, Vintage

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• if I love something I do it, and if I don't, I don't. I think that this is the most important choice that any of us can make in life, in art, in history: to do the thing you love. If you love it, it is important. If you love it then while you are doing it, you are a true expression of yourself and your time and your story. You are authentic. If you don't love it you betray not only yourself but also your history, your culture, your position in your society.

  Lina Wertmuller

  Art, Passion, Thinking

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• Once upon a time, a historian told me that the most important choice a new historian could make was of his or her specialist subject. Most of the good stuff was far too overcrowded, so you had to pick about in the exotic and extinct. His recommendations were the Picts or the Minoans, because hardly anything was known about them and you could spend a happy lifetime of speculation.

  A. A. Gill

  Happy Life, History, Once Upon A Time

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• The choice of personnel, perhaps the most important choice (because 'people are policy'), never proceeds according to plan, but there have been some successful transitions that upheld high standards.

  Richard V. Allen

  Successful, People, High Standards

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• Chances are that any helpful two-year-old will break some eggs. We are often not very good at things when we are new. But there may be an important choice to make at such moments. Do we support and protect the innate wish to be of help to others in our children, or do we protect the eggs? Hard as it seems, the greater mother wisdom may lie in a willingness to clean up broken eggs or replace a mitten and a box of crayons.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Mother, Children, Lying

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• What should be the future of Israel? Is the land the most important choice, and for that reason to keep the whole of the land at any cost, or to have a partition and build the Jewish state on part of the land? And the other part?

  Shimon Peres

  Land, Israel, Cost

  "Israel's Statesman of Peace". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. May 2, 2003.

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• Every important choice we make is being guided by one of two places: either it is an act of faith or it is an act of fear. Faith opens the door to a new future.

  Debbie Ford

  Doors, Two, New Future

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• Almost every important choice in our lives is really just an expression of hope.

  John Twelve Hawks

  Expression, Life Is, Our Lives

  John Twelve Hawks (2010). “The Golden City”, Random House

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• In that inevitable, excruciatingly human moment, we are offered a powerful choice. This choice is perhaps one of the most vitally important choices we will ever make, and it determines the course of our lives from that moment forward. The choice is this: Will we interpret this loss as so unjust, unfair, and devastating that we feel punished, angry, forever and fatally wounded-- or, as our heart, torn apart, bleeds its anguish of sheer, wordless grief, will we somehow feel this loss as an opportunity to become more tender, more open, more passionately alive, more grateful for what remains?

  Wayne Muller

  Death, Powerful, Grief

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• Your choice of people to associate with, both personally and business-wise, is one of the most important choices you make. If you associate with turkeys, you will never fly with the eagles.

  Brian Tracy

  Motivational, Wise, Eagles

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• Embarrassment, or the risk of it, accompanies all your important choices.

  Roy H. Williams

  Risk, Embarrassment, Accompany

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• In this life we have to make many choices. Some are very important choices. Some are not. Many of our choices are between good and evil. The choices we make, however, determine to a large extent our happiness or our unhappiness, because we have to live with the consequences of our choices. Making perfect choices all of the time is not possible. It just doesn't happen. But it is possible to make good choices we can live with and grow from.

  James E. Faust

  Life, Happiness, Struggle Between Good And Evil

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• I still believe one of the most important choices is how we treat others. What good does it do you to build a huge muscular, impressive body if you are small and underdeveloped on the inside?  I’ve always felt that success begins on the inside and reaching our true potential gets blocked when we are small-spirited.

  Rich Gaspari

  Believe, Doe, Body

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