Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

- Boswell, James

Best Quotes about Choice

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

Bible

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

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

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

Choose your love, Love your choice.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Edwards, Tryon

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

A human being is a deciding being.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

11.

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

Garcia, Jerry

12.

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

13.

Watch what you choose to do. For instance, someone might want you to smoke. Never forget that I told you -- don't do it. Say no. That can of beer that somebody wants you to try, don't do it. Don't you ever do it. That drug that someone might want you to use, don't touch it. Stay away from it. It can destroy you.

Hinckley, Gordon B.

14.

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.

15.

We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

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

Mencken, H. L.

17.

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

Thomas, David

18.

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

19.

We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Johnson, Philip

20.

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

21.

We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.

Robbins, Anthony

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Walpole, Horace

26.

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

Erickson, Marian

27.

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.

28.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

29.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

30.

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

Wilder, Thornton

31.

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

Fixx, James

32.

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

Armesto, Raul

33.

Choice strengthens all.

Prescot, Neal

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

37.

You must give up the way it is... to have it the way you want it

38.

It is always your next move.

Hill, Napoleon

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

42.

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

43.

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

Horton, Doug

44.

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

45.

You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.

Schechter, Solomon

46.

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

English, Jon

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Cleaver, Eldridge

50.

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

Wister, Owen