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If individuals are rational, there is no need to protect them against their own choices. -- Daniel Kahneman
Sticking to your values, listening to your instincts, making your own choices is so important. -- Brittany Murphy
It's very clearly stated in the film: You make your own choices, and what you're always fighting is ego. -- Taylor Hackford
For me, going home at 5:30 is as much about my own choices, but also giving my team those choices, too. -- Dave Goldberg
I don't believe we own our children, they're their own souls who make their own choices, we just guide and support them. -- Elle Macpherson
We're always going to argue about abortion. It's a hard choice and it's controversial, and that's why I'm pro-choice, because I want people to make their own choices. -- Hillary Clinton
Make your own decisions. Make your own choices. -- Lisa Mangum
You shouldn't punish others for your own choices. -- Laurence J. Peter
You have to make your own choices in life. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
People make their own choices, and sometimes those choices suck. -- Carol Plum-Ucci
Students need to make their own choices about reading material and writing topics. -- Donalyn Miller
Our own choices might not be as good as those that are made for us. -- Sebastian Faulks
You make your own choices, Kira, and you canâ??t let anyone ever take that away from you. -- Dan Wells
Accept that you are where you are and what you are because of your own choices and decisions. -- Brian Tracy
Our collective experience has shown that when women have the power to make their own choices, good things happen. -- Madeleine Albright
We make our own choices, and then we present the matter to the Lord and get his approving, ratifying seal. -- Bruce R. McConkie
Now our biggest environmental problems come from our own actions, our own choices, rather than pollution produced by big business. -- Jesse Ventura
I'm not much of a matchmaker. I think people have to make their own choices and mistakes and all that stuff. -- Luke Perry
I fought all my life for women to make their own choices, in their personal and professional lives. I made mine. -- Hillary Clinton
Educated people can make their own choices about their governments. And certainly for women, an education allows you to understand your rights. -- Laura Bush
I don't belong to anyone. I make my own choices." "And you're with Adrian," said Dimitri. "But I was meant for you. -- Richelle Mead
Now that I'm a free agent I mean to make my own choices, and explain them to nobody if that's what pleases me. -- James Blish
Freewill means that the Universe never judges, never interferes with your own choices - and sees you as a being of equal creative power. -- Joy Page
When it comes to social policies, I believe women have the right to make their own choices, and inequality is a really important issue. -- Edward Snowden
We are learning, day by day, about the gift of agency that allows us to experience the consequences, good and bad, of our own choices. -- Robert D. Hales
My daughters, your daughters, our daughters deserve safety, protection, and the freedom to make their own choices about their personal lives and their physical selves. -- Carre Otis
You can't blame anyone else, ... , no one but yourself. You have to make your own choices and live every agonizing day with the consequences of those choices. -- Max Brooks
Blaze your own trail in life. Make your own choices and make your own mistakes. It's the only way you'll find your own happiness, not someone else's. -- M. Leighton
I'm always surprised at what I actually end up doing because I don't have a strategy or a game plan, especially now that I'm making my own choices. -- Gemma Arterton
We make our own choices and we're each responsible for them. Blame and credit belong to the individual. You haven't the right to claim either from someone else. -- Nora Roberts
I have to live and make my own choices, my own mistakes. You have to let me be me, even if i suck at it sometimes." - Adria -- J.A. Redmerski
As you grow and mature, you will want and will earn more freedom to live your lives your way and to make your own choices. This you should do. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
It's great to make your own choices, but there's a price to pay. I could've made more money or been more famous. I could be the current groovy guy. -- Michael Keaton
I try to define myself through my own choices rather than just accepting society's kind of you're that, you're that, let me put you in a box kind of thing. -- Gugu Mbatha-Raw
I'm just kind of taking a break now and enjoying the freedom of making my own choices. When you're on a television show for six years, they run your schedule. -- Andrew Shue
Ultimately, we are not seeking others to bow to, but to reinforce our individual natures, to help us suffer our own choices, to guide us on our own particular journeys. -- Patti Smith
We are ready to work hard, work together to re-elect President Barack Obama. We must do it because women deserve to make their own choices and determine the course of their lives. -- Nancy Keenan
Obviously the people that I admired, like the Beatles, were really into rock'n'roll, but it was already a little past rock'n'roll when I started listening and making my own choices about music. -- Elvis Costello
I was a total floral hippie as a child so when I finally could make my own choices, I've been living in different black suit jackets and been really drawn to masculine clothes. -- Lykke Li
Being the new guy's always great because you get to go in fresh with your own choices and you get to bring new life and breath and a new energy into something that's already established. -- Dustin Clare
I would be lying if I said the journalism doesn't reflect my own choices as a reporter and a writer: what to say, what to emphasize, how to say it, what is true or untrue. -- David Simon
I've never had an abortion. And I don't know if I would. But, it doesn't mean that I wouldn't fight to the death for women to make their own choices for their own human bodies. -- Sarah Silverman
I guess what I'm trying to say is that you can't live somebody else's life for them. They have to make their own choices, and sometimes all we can do is learn to live with them. -- Amanda Hocking
With taxes, if they aren't working right, we can change them with a stroke of the pen. It's basically a market-type mechanism. People make their own choices. You run the taxes, and you get the results. -- Paul R. Ehrlich
I wanted him [my father] to cherish and approve of me, not as he had when I was a child, but as the woman I was, who had her own mind and had made her own choices. -- Adrienne Rich
We can have our own choices in sex partners, but you cannot avoid birth and death. It's the content of all religion and art. We familiarize them and if we're more honest, we'd be far more relaxed about them. -- Peter Greenaway
Of course philosophy is not able to impose its own choices on politics, let alone on the economy. Nonetheless, it can help to identify the role of Europe in the global world and the principles that should inform its conduct. -- Roberto Esposito
Your parents will die before you do, so you'd better make your own life decisions. Your own choices are always good if you know yourself - especially in art, because whenever you do something new, everyone will be against you. -- Yoshitaka Amano
Time after time, on matters great and small, we are still standing on the sidelines, mutely accepting what is decided elsewhere instead of raising our voices and making our own choices. Scotland's much vaunted partnership of Jonah and the whale. -- Winnie Ewing
One of the greatest feelings in life is the conviction that you have lived the life you wanted to live-with the rough and the smooth, the good and the bad-but yours, shaped by your own choices, and not someone else's. -- Michael Ignatieff
In a free society a large degree of human activity is none of the government's business. We should make criminal what's going to hurt other people and other than that we should leave it to people to make their own choices. -- Barney Frank
You have to let individuals make their own choices and respect that, even if it's your own child. And that's what was taken away from me. My father passed away thinking I still had to go back to his way of believing. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
I had a very rough and tumultuous childhood. I often wish that I had the opportunity to make my own choices in life and choose my own path. But at the same time, I realize that things happen the way they're supposed to. -- Corey Feldman
You will be stupid. You will worry your parents. You will question your own choices, your relationships, your jobs, your friends, where you live, what you studied in college, that you went to college at all... If that happens, you're doing it right. -- Ira Glass
Peaceful circulation has been interupted by barbed wire and concrete blocks. For a city or a people to be truly free, they must have the secure right, without economic, political or police pressure, to make their own choices and live their own lives. -- John F. Kennedy
Every man must have freedom, must have the scope to form, test, and act upon his own choices, for any sort of development of his own personality to take place. He must, in short, be free in order that he may be fully human. -- Murray Rothbard
The real dividing line between things we call work and the things we call leisure is that in leisure, however active we may be, we make our own choices and our own decisions. We feel for the time being that our life is our own. -- Raymond Williams
Shoes divide men into three classes. Some men wear their father's shoes. They make no decisions of their own. Some are unthinkingly shod by the crowd. The strong man is his own cobbler. He insists on making his own choices. He walks in his own shoes. -- S. D Gordon
Judgmentalism assumes that you have the right to change someone else. Well, you don't. You only have the right to choose how you will change and behave. Trust others to make their own choices. Put the accountability for another's actions where it belongs, on the other person's shoulders. -- Vince Poscente
I am learning that if I just go on accepting the framework for life that others have given me, if I fail to make my own choices, the reason for my life will be missing. I will be unable to recognize that which I have the power to change. -- Liv Ullmann
I like characters that make choices and try to drive their own fate. -- Cary Fukunaga
I love making characters real and believable, through my own experience and choices. -- Minka Kelly
America, North and South, is a choice land, a land reserved for God's own purposes. -- Ezra Taft Benson
Your own personal health is your own personal choice, all the way down the line. -- Melissa Etheridge
Having been through the muck and mire, I've had my own brush with bad choices. -- Michael K. Williams
I'm 100 percent in support of women's rights, the right of a woman to make her own choice. -- Brad Schneider
My father's peripatetic career also gave me critical perspective when it came to my own career choices. -- Hannah Storm
I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. -- Billie Joe Armstrong
I have made my own choice, which is vegetarianism, but it's not the choice I'm imposing on anybody else. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
It pains me deeply to see members of my own party attempting to legislate women's health and contraception choices. -- Linda Lingle
I think that Subway has shown their own personal commitment as a company and how they believe in healthy choices. -- Apolo Ohno
When working on your own, you can make a choice and find out six months later that you made a bad choice. But when you work with people you trust, who understand your obsessions, you can take risks. -- Janet Fitch
The capacity to make free choices is not something we either have entirely or not at all. Rather, choices become freer the more they are the result of our own capacity to reflect on and assess facts and arguments. -- Julian Baggini
All I can tell you is that you cannot make choices in your own career, either career choices or choices when you're actually working as an actor, based on trying to downplay or live up to a comparison with somebody else. You just can't do that. You have to do your own work based on your own gut, your own instincts, and your own life. -- Brandon Lee
Make your own sacred choices -- Lailah Gifty Akita
We all create our own reality by the choices we make. -- Cuba Gooding, Jr.
Choosing love or war: both are brave choices, in their own ways. -- Cassandra Clare
People make decisions, and maybe you don't always agree, but those choices are still their own. -- Brenna Yovanoff
God writes the story of our lives with the pen strokes of our own free choices. -- Peter Kreeft
I think about my own daily choices every day in terms of how to find happiness. -- Nathan Fillion
An owner is someone who chooses to own their life, own their choices, and own their future. -- Chris Brogan
I try to make choices for my own life. And I try to make those choices count. -- Lisa Mangum
My fathers peripatetic career also gave me critical perspective when it came to my own career choices. -- Hannah Storm
Don't let tobacco companies make the choices for you... they care about their own well-being, not yours -- Wayne Dyer
Since you are the one who has to live with your choices, be sure they are your own. -- Alan Cohen
I went out on my own, years ago, to try to create some additional choices in a parallel universe. -- Kellyanne Conway
The most important story we'll ever write in life is our own-not with ink, but with our daily choices. -- Richard Paul Evans
You carve out the organization's character through your daily choices. You shape its conscience as you exercise your own. -- Price Pritchett
You can't really protect women or men from their choices, so let them have their own lives and trust the process. -- Stephen Singular
I feel, having the choices I had, I felt I had more control over my own medium than I did over photography. -- Ben Shahn
Your own life is the way it is because of you, and the choices you have made - or failed to make. -- Neale Donald Walsch
I am not for abortion; nobody is for abortion. I am for your right to make your own hard choices in this world. -- Linda Ellerbee
It's only when we are able to see our own behavior that we are able to wake up and start making conscious choices. -- Debbie Ford
My behavior is a product of my own conscious choices based on principles, rather than a product of my conditions, based on feelings. -- Stephen Covey
Men are free to decide their own moral choices, but they are also under the necessity to account to God for those choices. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
I'm continually trying to make choices that put me against my own comfort zone. As long as you're uncomfortable, it means you're growing. -- Ashton Kutcher
Taking responsibility and having faith in your own judgment will help you make good choices and decisions at the end of your pet's life. -- Jon Katz
Contentment is a state of happiness and satisfaction. The choices we make are our own decisions for how we want to live our life. -- Ellen J. Barrier
If I own stock in your company and you move offshore for tax reasons I'm selling your stock. There are enough investment choices here -- Mark Cuban
We create our own destiny by the way we do things. We have to take advantage of opportunities and be responsible for our choices. -- Benjamin Carson
A dream does not die on its own. A dream is vanquished by the choices ordinary people make about real things in their own lives... -- Jonathan Kozol
Nations decide upon their own destinies, and those choices are not the business of the United States if they do not threaten the United States. -- Pat Buchanan
Men. One minute they have their tongues down your throat and the next they're forbidding you from meeting your own father and criticizing your fashion choices. -- Gemma Halliday
I don't come from money or an educated family background or any sort of supportive family life, so all of my choices are made on my own. -- Cat Power
In my own life, I'm pretty good at choosing between good and bad. It's the choices between good and good I find the most difficult to make. -- Ally Condie
The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material nor pull strictly from his own experience to find his acting choices and feelings. -- Stella Adler
We design our lives through the power of our choices. We feel most helpless when we've made choices by default, when we haven't designed our lives on our own. -- Richard Bach
In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Each environment has its own signature. Sound tells a story: You make choices about what you're hearing, where to look, how you want to feel about what's going on. -- Stephen Hopkins
I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be. -- Nicholas Sparks

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