Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

Best Quotes about Choice

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

I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.

A Course In Miracles

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Walpole, Horace

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.

It is not something I must do but something I want to do

Fixx, James

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

West, Mae

In the choice between changing one's mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.

Carpenter, Liz

10.

Before my accidents, there were ten thousands things I could do. I could spend the rest of my life dwelling on the things that I had lost, but instead I chose to focus on the nine thousand I still had left.

Mitchell, W.

11.

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

Bible

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Once in a while it really hits people that they don't have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.

Keightley, Alan

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If there are things you don't like in the world you grew up in, make your own life different.

Thomas, David

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Man?s power of choice enables him to think like an angel or a devil, a king or a slave. Whatever he chooses, mind will create and manifest.

Bailes, Frederick

15.

Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it.

Riley, Pat

16.

Of all earthly creatures, humans alone have the power to choose.

17.

For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?

Wilder, Thornton

18.

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

19.

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

Nightingale, Earl

20.

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

Dyer, Wayne

21.

Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.

Garcia, Jerry

22.

The more equally attractive two alternatives seem, the harder it can be to choose between them -- no matter that, to the same degree, the choice can only matter less.

Paradox, Edward Fredkin's

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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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You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don't find easy, or learn an awful lot very fast which is what I tried to do.

Fonda, Jane

25.

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

Epictetus

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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

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You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.

Chopra, Deepak

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As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices, by making the most of the talents we've been given.

Retton, Mary Lou

29.

We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road -- the one less traveled by -- offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.

Carson, Rachel

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There has never been another you. With no effort on your part you were born to be something very special and set apart. What you are going to do in appreciation of that gift is a decision only you can make.

Zadra, Dan

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You can do what you want to do. You can be what you want to be.

Thomas, David

32.

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

33.

It is always your next move.

Hill, Napoleon

34.

You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.

Schechter, Solomon

35.

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

Erickson, Marian

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A human being is a deciding being.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Let us choose to believe something good can happen.

Kohe, J. Martin

38.

What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.

Buscaglia, Leo

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I knew that I did not have to buy into society's notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to be happy. I was in charge of my spaceship and it was my up, my down. I could choose to see this situation as a setback or as a starting point. I chose to begin life again.

Mitchell, Warren

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Refuse the evil, and choose the good. [Isaiah 7:15]

Bible

41.

We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Johnson, Philip

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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

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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

44.

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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We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us -- how we can take it, what we do with it -- and that is what really counts in the end. How to take the raw stuff of life and make it a thing of worth and beauty -- that is the test of living.

Newton, Joseph Fort

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There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

Waitley, Denis

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

Saying, Zen

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We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.

Robbins, Anthony

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Our generation, like the one before us, must choose. Without the threat of the Cold War, without the pain of economic ruin, without the fresh memory of World War II's slaughter, it is tempting to pursue our private agendas -- to simply sit back and let history unfold. We must resist the temptation.

Clinton, Bill

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You are either part of the solution or part of the problem.

Cleaver, Eldridge