Every life is shaped by the choices we make, large and small, deliberate and unexpected. In each moment we are quietly deciding who we will become. As Voltaire observed, “Life is a sum of all your choices.”

The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose. ~ J. Martin Kohe

It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. ~ J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

The difficulty in life is the choice. ~ George Moore

Sometimes it is a good choice not to choose at all. ~ Michel de Montaigne

We do have choice, but not without some agony. ~ Josephine Hart

No man is free who is not master of himself… Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose? ~ Epictetus

Only when he voluntarily chooses that which he inexorably must do has man any free will at all. ~ M. Esther Harding

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient… Patience and faith are what the sea teaches. ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

You have a choice. It may not be a choice you like, but it is still a choice. ~ Michelle Pfeiffer

You can't make someone else's choices. You shouldn't let someone else make yours. ~ Colin Powell

Given that you choose where you are, you can choose where you're going. ~ Jeff Davidson

reality, let us change the eyes which see reality. ~ Nikos Kazantzakis

Choose well. ~ Homer

There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he's absolutely free to choose. ~ William Bulger

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.~ George Eliot