Optional Quotes · Page 2

“Reading this chapter is optional but as you’ve read it you’ve read it.”

— Gao Xingjian

Survival is optional. No one has to change.

— W. Edwards Deming

Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory.

— Ed Viesturs

Losses are inevitable, but excuses are optional.

— John C. Maxwell

Love is essential, gregariousness is optional.

— Susan Cain

“Misery is optional, that goes for everybody”

— Jo Ann Mason

Complying with requests from Congress is not optional. It is mandatory.

— Pete Hoekstra

The Emperor is merely endorsing a clothing-optional lifestyle!

— James Finn Garner

Our prep's not going to be any different. It will be optional batting practice like there was today. I don't want any…

— Joe Maddon

“Of all the components of the ecosystem, humans are the only ones we know to be completely optional.”

— Herb Hammond

Creativity ignited a spark. In that moment, I saw that art is not peripheral, beauty is not optional, but a strategy for…

— Terry Tempest Williams

“Christmas 2022 was a time where air travelers should have bought the optional travel insurance!”

— Steven Magee

Spirituality on the other hand, is a chosen path of developing intimate relationships with God. It's chosen, it's nurtured, and it's optional.

— Caroline Myss

Arab nation, Egypt, is not mentioned [in the Muslim Ban]? This is where facts are optional for the liberal media.

— Sebastian Gorka

Civility isn't just some optional value in a multicultural, multistate democratic republic. Civility is the key to civilization.

— Van Jones

Our father presents an optional set of rhythms and responses for us to connect to. As a second home base, he makes…

— Judith Viorst

Teaching my kids to give back is an essential part of parenting. It's not something that's optional. Compassion is one of the…

— Kate Snow

In Business School they taught us about cash flow, not about corporate politics; about return on equity, not about egos and pride.…

— Mary Cunningham Agee

We must distinguish between spirituality in general terms, which aims to make us better people, and religion. Adopting a religion remains optional,…

— Matthieu Ricard

The quantum theory of parallel universes is not the problem, it is the solution. It is not some troublesome, optional interpretation emerging…

— David Deutsch

Grief is a matter of the heart and soul. Grieve your loss, allow it in, and spend time with it. Suffering is…

— Louise Hay

The Church is the Church in her worship. Worship is not an optional extra, but is of the very life and essence…

— J. B. Torrance

Failing is not real, it's an optional state of mind.

— Behdad Sami

Growing older is mandatory, but growing up is optional.

— Heather Brewer

My message is "Getting older is inevitable. Aging and deterioration are optional."

— Christiane Northrup

Failure comes part and parcel with invention. It’s not optional.

— Jeff Bezos

Since when has obedience to Christ and His Gospel become optional to Christianity?

— K.P. Yohannan

Change is a given; growth, however, is optional.

— Orrin Woodward

The change we are in the middle of isn't minor and it isn't optional.

— Clay Shirky

Change is inevitable. Progress is optional .

— Tony Robbins

Optional is latin for 'Be There'.

— Darryl Sutter

“It’s all optional; do it or die.”

— David Foster Wallace

Pain is a part of life, suffering is optional.

— Anonymous

Pain is unavoidable but suffering is optional

— Anonymous

Failiure is not an option.

— Gene Kranz

Pain is certain, suffering is optional.

— Gautama Buddha

Challenges are inevitable, Defeat is optional.

— Roger Crawford

Where orthodoxy is optional, orthodoxy will sooner or later be proscribed.

— Richard John Neuhaus

“In the faculty of failure, mediocrity is never an optional course!”

— Israelmore Ayivor

Pain is inevitable, but misery is optional. We cannot avoid pain, but we can avoid joy.

— Tim Hansel