Courageous Choices Quotes

You become courageous by doing courageous acts ... Courage is a habit. ~ Mary Daly

if you don't make courageous choices for yourself, nobody else will. ~ James Altucher

I think on some level, that's a fear that exists in everybody, that if we're tested, we won't make the courageous choice. We won't make the decision that would make us heroic. We make the decision that would reveal us to be all too human. ~ Bruce Greenwood

Let's stop "tolerating" or "accepting" difference, as if we're so much better for not being different. Instead, let's celebrate difference, because in this world it takes a lot of guts to be different and to act differently. ~ Kate Bornstein

What I implore you to do is believe that if you make courageous choices and bet on yourself and put yourself out there that you will have an impact as a result of what you do, and you don't need to know now what that will be, or how that will happen, because nobody ever does. ~ Dick Costolo

Thinking is hard. Making value judgments is difficult. It places you at pure creation, because there are so many times you'll have to say, "I don't know. I just don't know." Yet still you'll have to decide. And so you'll have to choose. You'll have to make an arbitrary choice. Such a choice-a decision coming from no previous personal knowledge-is called pure creation. And the individual is aware, deeply aware, that in the making of such decisions is the Self created. ~ Neale Donald Walsch

In 1970, Alix Kates Shulman, a wife, mother, and writer who had joined the Women's Liberation Movement in New York, wrote a poignant account of how the initial equality and companionship of her marriage had deteriorated once she had children. "[N]ow I was restricted to the company of two demanding preschoolers and to the four walls of an apartment. It seemed unfair that while my husband's life had changed little when the children were born, domestic life had become the only life I had." His job became even more demanding, requiring late nights and travel out of town. Meanwhile it was virtually impossible for her to work at home. "I had no time for myself; the children were always there." Neither she nor her husband was happy with the situation, so they did something radical, which received considerable media coverage: they wrote up a marriage agreement... In it they asserted that "each member of the family has an equal right to his/her own time, work, values and choices... The ability to earn more money is already a privilege which must not be compounded by enabling the larger earner to buy out of his/her duties and put the burden on the one who earns less, or on someone hired from outside." The agreement insisted that domestic jobs be shared fifty-fifty and, get this girls, "If one party works overtime in any domestic job, she/he must be compensated by equal work by the other." The agreement then listed a complete job breakdown... in other worde, the agreement acknowledged t ~ Susan J. Douglas

God sifted a whole nation that he might send choice grain over into this wilderness. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty. ~ George MacDonald

It was possible, he understood, for a person's life to become just a long series of mistakes, and that the end, when it came, was just one more mistake in a chain of bad choices. The thing was, most of these mistakes were actually borrowed from other people. You took their bad ideas, and for whatever reason, made them your own. ~ Justin Cronin

Even Alexia, spinster that she was, was given an allowance large enough to dress her to the height of fashion - although she did tend to stick to trends a little too precisely. The poor thing could not help it. Her choice of clothing simply lacked soul. ~ Gail Carriger

Our destiny becomes the accumulation of the choices that we make; the choices of which paths we took in life. ~ Steven Redhead

When your dream is bigger than you are, you only have two choices: give up or get help. ~ John C. Maxwell

You need courage to be creative. You need the courage to see things differently, courage to go against the crowd, courage to take a different approach, courage to stand alone, if you have to, courage to choose activity over inactivity. ~ Jim Rohn

Why did I come here? I thought. Why is it always only a matter of choosing between something bad and something worse? ~ Charles Bukowski

We live, we love. These are the choices we are given, to open doors or to close them. It is all we have, and it is enough ~ Karen White

The right path and easy path are usually two different things, and when it's time to choose, always choose the right path over the easy. ~ Deatri King-Bey

If I had any choice in the matter, I'd stay in my comfy bed and eat warm chocolate chip cookies all day. ~ Simone Elkeles

If people can't stand being alone, they have no choice but to die ~ Natsuo Kirino

Trading old broken mirrors that feed lies into our souls for new mirrors of freedom requires choices. ~ Danielle Bernock

People who are poor think like traders, but the dynamics are quite different. Unlike traders, the poor are not indifferent to the differences between gaining and giving up. Their problem is that all their choices are between losses. Money that is spent on one good is the loss of another good that could have been purchased instead. For the poor, costs are losses. ~ Daniel Kahneman

You are only in control of your choices. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I'm not sure that my upbringing has in itself informed my acting choices. ~ Morgan Freeman

If you can have what it takes to make intelligent choices and to reach intelligent decisions, you will have the audacity to rule your city. ~ Anyaele Sam Chiyson

Just pay close attention to what excites you and what drains you. Pay close attention to when you're being the real you and when you're trying to impress an invisible jury. ~ Derek Sivers

I remember my father, who had served in Vietnam, once talking to me about how real courage is when you're scared out of your mind but you do what you have to do anyway. I didn't feel very courageous at the moment. I felt like a small mouse in the mouth of a lion. ~ Anna M. Aquino

Don't you see, Ren? That's exactly why I have to go. You need to know that you can survive without me. That's there's more to life than just me. You need to see this world that's opened up to you and know that you have choices. I refuse to be your cage- Kelsey, pg. 401 ~ Colleen Houck

Rich Indians typically tried to work around a dysfunctional government. Private security was hired, city water was filtered, private school tuitions were paid. Such choices had evolved over the years into a principle: The best government is the one that gets out of the way.
The attacks on the Taj and the Oberoi, in which executives and socialites died, had served as a blunt correction. The wealthy now saw that their security could not be requisitioned privately. They were dependent on the same public safety system that ill served the poor. ~ Katherine Boo

... we live in a purposeful world with a linear movement to a grand climax. Thousands of sub-plots unfold enroute to the great finale. Behind your life is an unseen and up fathomed blueprint where every experience is purposeful. Within this divine plan we are not robots, but responsible moral agents. We make choices and we are responsible for these choices. But God, in a way that you and I will never fathom, integrates into his plan our choices long before they are ever made. ~ Jim Andrews

He shouldn't have let himself be caged in here, walled off from freedom. But what does freedom mean any more? And who had caged him and walled him off? He'd done it himself. So many small choices. ~ Margaret Atwood

A time of uncertainty, of not knowing exactly where we're headed, or what kind of choice to make is a Zen moment. ~ Brenda Shoshanna

I swallowed hard. It was my life. And it was my choice how I decided to live it. ~ Heather Brewer

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"The struggle for a sustainable future is not just a battle between people and ideologies, it is the struggle in our hearts and minds that is revealed in the choices we make every day. ~ Ned Tillman

We would rather be in the company of somebody we like than in the company of the most superior being of our acquaintance. ~ Frank Arthur Swinnerton

The right to life is not a woman's issue. The Lord is the giver of life and only He can make choices about life. It is always a reward to have life ... only the Lord gives and takes life. ~ Margaret Heckler