It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
CharacterAlbus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Chamber of SecretsSoon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.
Morality & EthicsAlbus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Goblet of FireI can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.
Paulo Coelho in Eleven MinutesIt is our choices that makes us who we are, and we always have a choice to do what's right.
Morality & EthicsSpider-Man - 3, by Peter ParkerYou can never make the same mistake twice. Because the second time you make it, it's not a mistake, it's a choise.
Failures & MistakesUnknownThe three C's of Life: Choices, Chances, Changes.
You must make a Choice to take a Chance or your Life will never Change.
Sometimes you make choices in life, and sometimes choices make you.
Gayle Forman in If I StayI've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.
Alan RickmanSometimes our best decisions are the ones that don't make any sense at all.
Failures & MistakesTed Mosby in How I Met Your Mother, Season 5 Episode 20The most important moments are the ones that make you realize there's no turning back. You've crossed a line, and you're stuck on the other side now.
Tokyo in Money Heist, Season 4 Episode 4Have you ever thought that if you can go back in time, you might still make the same decisions? We all make our own snowballs out of our bad decisions. Balls that become massive, like the Indiana Jones boulder, chasing you down-hill only to crush you in the end.
Tokyo in Money Heist, Season 1 Episode 6It's not how everyone else feels about what you choose, but what your heart tells you, lad. That's all that matters.
HeartThe Silver Lining - Episode 2: Two Households, by King GrahamAs Schopenhauer said about free will, you can choose whatever you desire, but you're not free to choose your desires.
Ian McEwan in Machines Like MeLife's simple. You make choices and you don't look back.
Life, RemorseFast and Furious - 3: Tokyo Drift, by Han LueNo trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
Fate & DestinyAgnes de MilleChoose it or lose it!
Ash Ketchum in PokémonThere are no choices. Nothing but a straight line.
The Illusion comes afterwards, when you ask 'Why me?' and 'What if?'
When you look back, see the branches, like a pruned bonsai tree, or a forked lightening.
If you had done something differently, it wouldn't be you.
It would be someone else looking back, asking a different set of questions.
There comes a time when every man needs to make a choice, whether it's a professional choice or whether it's a personal choice. In the end, it's about integrity, and it's about chasing after what you really want, even if that means showing you both care a little. And sometimes... well, sometimes you just have to do what's right for your friend, even if it means sacrificing your own happiness. When it comes down to it, you just have to be proud of the decision you make.
J.D. in Scrubs, Season 3 Episode 19Don't make any decisions when you're angry. And never make any promises when you're happy.
UnknownLook for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it.
Pat RileyUnfortunately, some of our poor choices are irreversible, but many are not. Often, we can change course and get back on the right track.
RemorseJames E. FaustAlmost every important choice in our lives is really just an expression of hope.
John HawksThe important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.
Morality & EthicsAnthony Burgess in A Clockwork OrangeWhen a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.
Anthony Burgess in A Clockwork Orange'It is as though I have a black dog and a white dog inside me fighting each other constantly.' The black dog, he explained, represented evil and the white dog represented good. The missionary asked him, 'Which dog wins the fight within you?' After several moments of silence, the native said, 'The dog that wins is the one I feed and the dog that loses is the one I starve.'
Character, Morality & EthicsIndian American SayingChoice is a lie. The greatest of lies.
Anthony Ryan in Raven's Shadow - 1: Blood SongHypothetically, if the only choice you've got is to do the wrong thing, then it's not really the wrong thing, it's more like fate.
Max Payne - 2, by Vladimir LemThe worst path one can choose is not choosing a path.
Frederick the GreatWe make choices everyday, some of them good, some of them bad. And - if we are strong enough - we live with the consequences.
David Andrew GemmellTough times call for tougher decisions.
PrabhasI believe without a single shadow of a doubt that it is necessary for young people to learn to make choices. Learning to make right choices is the only way they will survive in an increasingly frightening world.
Lois LowryYou got to own your choices, boys. Choose them fully and don’t look back.
Jack Pearson in This Is Us, Season 2When you make the right decision, it doesn't really matter what anyone else thinks.
Self-ConfidenceCaroline KennedySometimes you make the right decision, sometimes you make the decision right.
Phil McGrawIndecision may or may not be my problem.
Jimmy BuffettObviously, as you grow up, no one's ever 100 percent proud of every decision that they've made, and that's OK. I think as long as you learn from your mistakes and don't make them over and over again, you're on the right path.
Failures & MistakesKim Kardashian