Motivational Quotes

Choice

Even as a tortoise draws in its limbs, the wise can draw in their senses at will.

- Bhagavad Gita

Best Quotes about Choice

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

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

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.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Saying, Zen

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

Brown, Les

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

Walpole, Horace

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

Wister, Owen

10.

You are now at a crossroads. This is your opportunity to make the most important decision you will ever make. Forget your past. Who are you now? Who have you decided you really are now? Don't think about who you have been. Who are you now? Who have you decided to become? Make this decision consciously. Make it carefully. Make it powerfully.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Horton, Doug

12.

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

13.

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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He that cannot decidedly say, No, when tempted to evil, is on the highway to ruin. He loses the respect even of those who would tempt him, and becomes but the pliant tool and victim of their evil designs.

Hawes, Joel

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That guy just cut right in front of me. But I'm not going to let it bother me. No. I'm on my way to work and I decided it doesn't matter who wants to cut in front of my lane today. I'm not going to let it bother me one bit. Once I get to work, find myself a parking space, if somebody wants to jump ahead of me and take it, I'm going to let them.

Winfrey, Oprah

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Even as a tortoise draws in its limbs, the wise can draw in their senses at will.

Bhagavad Gita

17.

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

18.

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

Bible

19.

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

Dyer, Wayne

20.

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

Barnes, Sondra Anice

21.

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

Mencken, H. L.

22.

It is always your next move.

Hill, Napoleon

23.

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

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The highest order of mind is accused of folly, as well as the lowest. Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.

Pascal, Blaise

25.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

26.

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

Wilder, Thornton

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Thomas, David

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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

31.

A human being is a deciding being.

Frankl, Viktor E.

32.

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

Sirtis, Marina

33.

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that in itself is a choice.

James, William

34.

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

West, Mae

35.

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

Garcia, Jerry

36.

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

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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

38.

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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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

40.

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

41.

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

Riley, Pat

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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

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

44.

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

45.

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

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The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs. Self-conceit often regards it as a sign of weakness to admit that a belief to which we have once committed ourselves is wrong. We get so identified with an idea that it is literally a pet notion and we rise to its defense and stop our eyes and ears to anything different.

Dewey, John

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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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Everything is something you decide to do, and there is nothing you have to do.

Waitley, Denis

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I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day.

Lincoln, Abraham

50.

We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Johnson, Philip