Motivational Quotes

Choice

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.

Best Quotes about Choice

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Bible

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.

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

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

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

Epictetus

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

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

West, Mae

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

Bible

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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

11.

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

Brown, Les

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You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.

Schechter, Solomon

13.

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

Thomas, David

14.

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

15.

Everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedom -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

Frankl, Viktor E.

16.

Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.

Edwards, Tryon

17.

Choose your love, Love your choice.

Monson, Thomas S.

18.

Bright lights cast dark shadows when shone from only one direction.

Kelley, David

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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

20.

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

Horton, Doug

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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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There is no shame in finding someone else to be attractive, or good company. Even if they don't like you, there is still no shame. If you happen to be fond of someone, and they're not fond of you, it's OK.. You don't have to wait and see if they'll love you back. You can announce it.. Joy in life comes from expressing ourselves, in taking risks and jumping in. Everyone is not going to like you. But you can like who you like.

Matthews, Andrew

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

Sirtis, Marina

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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

28.

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

Stone, W. Clement

29.

You are the person who has to decide. Whether you'll do it or toss it aside; You are the person who makes up your mind. Whether you'll lead or will linger behind. Whether you'll try for the goal that's afar. Or just be contented to stay where you are.

Guest, Edgar A.

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

Garcia, Jerry

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

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

James, William

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Blyth, R. H.

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

Barnes, Sondra Anice

35.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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It is always your next move.

Hill, Napoleon

38.

Let us choose to believe something good can happen.

Kohe, J. Martin

39.

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

40.

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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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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I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.

A Course In Miracles

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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

44.

We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Johnson, Philip

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

Allen, James

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No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Riley, Pat