Motivational Quotes

Choice

The world isn't interested in the storms you encountered, but whether or not you brought in the ship.

- Armesto, Raul

Best Quotes about Choice

It is your own convictions which compels you; that is, choice compels choice.

Epictetus

The perfect way is without difficulty, for it avoids picking and choosing. Only when you stop liking and disliking will all be clearly understood. Be not concerned with right or wrong, for the conflict between right and wrong is the sickness of the mind.

Seng-Ts'an

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. 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.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.

Boswell, James

You are everything that is, your thoughts, your life, your dreams come true. You are everything you choose to be. You are as unlimited as the endless universe.

Helmstetter, Shad

When you can't have what you choose, you just choose what you have.

Wister, Owen

I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: Therefore choose life. [Deuteronomy 30:19]

Bible

You can choose to be lazy or you can choose to be ambitious. Stop to think about it again. Don't you do your own choosing?

Kohe, J. Martin

It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own choosing; when we do, the performance is itself the wage.

Hand, Learned

10.

You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self. Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. You're always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

11.

There are always two choices. Two paths to take. One is easy. And its only reward is that it's easy.

12.

You can't choose up sides on a round world.

Dyer, Wayne

13.

Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.

Brown, Les

14.

On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us --ah! what a dream, to live in that! --the other stifles us at the first breath.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

15.

Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.

Bach, Richard

16.

Inhabit ourselves that we may indeed do what we want to do.

Richards, Mary Caroline

17.

He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

18.

Choice strengthens all.

Prescot, Neal

19.

The way to activate the seeds of your creation is by making choices about the results you want to create. When you make a choice, you activate vast human energies and resources, which otherwise go untapped. All too often people fail to focus their choices upon results and therefore their choices are ineffective. If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.

Fritz, Robert

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No one ever went broke by saying no too often.

Mackay, Harvey

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I like to be a free spirit. Some don't like that, but that's the way I am.

Diana, Princess of Wales

22.

Seeing the light is a choice, not seeing the light is no choice.

Horton, Doug

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When a defining moment comes along, you can do one of two things. Define the moment, or let the moment define you.

Movie, Tin Cup

24.

It's so hard when I have to, And so easy when I want to.

Barnes, Sondra Anice

25.

I am not a sound bite person. I prefer to run at the mouth.

Sirtis, Marina

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I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.

A Course In Miracles

27.

If this life be not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained... it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will.

James, William

28.

If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.

Atwood, Margaret

29.

Anything inside that immobilizes me, gets in my way, keeps me from my goals, is all mine.

Dyer, Wayne

30.

People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be -- whether they will admit that or not.

Nightingale, Earl

31.

You can lay down and die, or you can get up and fight, but that's it -- there's no turning back.

English, Jon

32.

A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.

Roddenberry, Gene

33.

Every single moment of your life you must choose from a number of alternatives. What you choose determines where you will end up.

Sinha, Shall

34.

Whenever I have to choose between two evils, I always like to try the one I haven't tried before.

West, Mae

35.

There is an election going on all the time... the Lord votes for you and Satan votes against you, and you must cast the deciding vote.

36.

If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free,cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are...

Stevens, Cat

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Each person designs his own life, freedom gives him the power to carry out his own designs, and power gives the freedom to interfere with the designs of others.

Berne, Eric

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Any person who recognizes this greatest power... the power to choose. Begins to realize that he is the one that is doing the choosing and that friends, although they mean well, cannot do his choosing for him, nor can his relatives. Consequently, he develops real self-confidence based upon his own ability, upon his own action, and upon his own initiative.

Kohe, J. Martin

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It is the moment of evolutionary truth for the race, and what man does with that moment will be more important than the events of the previous millenium.

Muses, Charles

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Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.

Walpole, Horace

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Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.

Mencken, H. L.

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Most of life is choices, and the rest is pure dumb luck.

Erickson, Marian

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The world isn't interested in the storms you encountered, but whether or not you brought in the ship.

Armesto, Raul

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The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences.

Saying, Zen

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Thus we see that the all important thing is not killing or giving life, drinking or not drinking, living in the town or the country, being unlucky or lucky, winning or losing. It is how we win, how we lose, how we live or die, finally, how we choose.

Blyth, R. H.

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A human being is a deciding being.

Frankl, Viktor E.

47.

You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose

Browne, Harry

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I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

Marx, Groucho

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You see, it's never the environment; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events -- how we interpret them -- that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow.

Robbins, Anthony

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The first thing I do in the morning is to make my bed and while I am making up my bed I am making up my mind as to what kind of a day I am going to have.

Frost, Robert