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

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

Kelley, David

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

Wilder, Thornton

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

English, Jon

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

Dyer, Wayne

A human being is a deciding being.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

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

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

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

Waitley, Denis

10.

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

11.

You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.

12.

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

Sirtis, Marina

13.

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

West, Mae

14.

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

15.

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

16.

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.

Dyer, Wayne

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.

A Course In Miracles

21.

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

Epictetus

22.

It is always your next move.

Hill, Napoleon

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Choice strengthens all.

Prescot, Neal

26.

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

Bible

27.

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

Wister, Owen

28.

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

Dyer, Wayne

29.

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

Fixx, James

30.

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

31.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

32.

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

Garcia, Jerry

33.

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.

34.

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

35.

Choose your love, Love your choice.

Monson, Thomas S.

36.

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

37.

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

Bhagavad Gita

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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To every man there openeth A way, and ways, and a way. And the high soul climbs the high way, And the low soul gropes the low: And in between, on the misty flats, The rest drift to and fro. But to every man there openeth A high way and a low, And every man decideth. The way his soul shall go.

Oxenham, John

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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

44.

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

45.

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.

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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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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

48.

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

49.

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

Bible

50.

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