Muhammad Ali Quotes

One of the most important things that I have learned in my 57 years is that life is all about choices. On every journey you take, you face choices. At every fork in the road, you make a choice. And it is those decisions that shape our lives.

I woke up on May 15, 1991, the day of my Barnard graduation, and I said to myself, 'By the end of today you will decide what you want to do with the rest of your life.'

There comes a time or a moment when you know in which direction you're going to go. I know it happened to me when I was quite young.

In every life there comes a point when you have to make a decision about how you will live.

The course of our lives is not determined by great, awesome decisions. Our direction is set by the little day-to-day choices which chart the track on which we run.

You make what seems a simple choice: choose a man or a job or a neighborhood- and what you have chosen is not a man or a job or a neighborhood, but a life.

The most important story we'll ever write in life is our own-not with ink, but with our daily choices.

The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.

The decisions you are making right now and that you will make in the foreseeable months and years will absolutely determine whether you pivot towards the world or towards the Lord.

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

I believe BMX has shaped me into who I am today, so if this journey never would have begun, then who knows the person I would be or what I would be doing with my life.

Learning what you don't want to do is pretty valuable, it may be as valuable as figuring out what it is you do want to do.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.

Any decision I make is the biggest decision of my life.

It's always good to find out what you don't want to do.

Quitting law school was the most difficult decision of my life. But I felt this great relief that this is my life and I can do what I want with it.

The best path through life is the highway.

When I got to 40 or so... I had the sense when I looked back over my life I would actually see a mess of decisions, a few of which I had thought about, some of which I had sort of stumbled on, and many that I had no control over whatsoever.

How many crossroads are you allowed to have in life? I seem to have a lot of crossroads. I think maybe I crossed back across the same road too often.

The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way.

You have to just make the choices you make in life. I made the choices I made because I believed they were right for me.

I know the kind of street I'm going down. I know my own strengths and weaknesses.

Everybody has their own path. I got mine.

I have a lot of things that I wish I had done differently given the opportunity to redo it but that would have changed everything, and I am very content with where I am today.