Making Difficult Choices Quotes & Sayings

The common theme of common sense is that it's commonly rejected as uncommonly demanding. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Be nice until it becomes a habit. Give thanks like it is second nature. — Rita Zahara

You can deal with the loneliness one night at a time. But what you can't deal with is the idea of loneliness, the fear of it. — Geneen Roth

Life is a chain of choices. Making the correct one is never easy."
"That's for sure," agreed Rocky.
"But if we didn't make difficult choices, right or wrong," said Mr. Veraldi, "we wouldn't learn anything worth knowing." Rocky Ryan and his viola teacher, Mr. Veraldi, in Bully at Ambush Corner. — Karen Mueller Coombs

Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are. — Claude M. Bristol

Unwinds exist in the constant shadow of betrayal. — Neal Shusterman

It was very hard to make 'Funny Face' in Paris because making movies is difficult and making a movie in a city that was glorious, that was unique and surprising, to get it, to put it on film you have to make choices and reject a lot of things so you're always wondering: 'Am I doing it right?' — Stanley Donen

I will be with you in the sunrise that warms and brightens your face and in the stars you gaze up at when you fall asleep at night. — Peggy M. McAloon

In life, everybody faces choices between doing what's popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what's lonely, difficult, and right. These decisions intensify when you run a company, because the consequences get magnified 1,000 fold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful. — Ben Horowitz

As a rider, you must slowly and methodically show your horse what is appropriate. You also have to discourage what's inappropriate, not by making the inappropriate impossible, but by making it difficult so that the horse himself chooses appropriate behavior. You can't choose it for him; you can only make it difficult for him to make the wrong choices. If, however, you make it impossible for him to make the wrong choices, you're making war. — Buck Brannaman

Life has a habit of making the easy desperately difficult, and the hardest choices so easy as to be no choice at all. — Catherine Sanderson

So also in a marriage or in helping a teenager through a difficult identity crisis - there is no quick fix, where you can just move in and make everything right with a positive mental attitude and a bunch of success formulas. — Stephen Covey

Art invites us to become explorers and excavators of our vast internal landscapes, discovering new terrain and digging deep into the past to unearth forgotten experiences and emotion. — Jaeda DeWalt

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

I can have a whole year off. I'm really lucky because I'm my own boss, so I make the rules and get to choose when I take time off. — Sharleen Spiteri

There is something about a mass-market Luxury Cruise that's unbearably sad. Like most unbearably sad things, it seems incredibly elusive and complex in its causes and simple in its effect: on board the Nadir - especially at night - I felt despair. The wor's overused and banalified now, despair, but it's a serious word, and I'm using it seriously. — David Foster Wallace

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable. — Mark Twain

I believe that for the most part, achieving success - whatever that is for you - is mostly a matter of personal choice and that, initially, making the right choices can be difficult. — Ray Dalio

In the void of the mind, what are your dreams? — Pupola