Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

Best Quotes about Choice

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

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Boswell, James

We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Johnson, Philip

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

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

Wister, Owen

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

10.

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

11.

You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.

Schechter, Solomon

12.

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

13.

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

Horton, Doug

14.

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

West, Mae

15.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

18.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Barnes, Sondra Anice

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Sirtis, Marina

25.

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.

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

James, William

29.

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

30.

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

31.

No one ever went broke by saying no too often.

Mackay, Harvey

32.

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 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.

34.

Choose your love, Love your choice.

Monson, Thomas S.

35.

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

Riley, Pat

36.

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

Cleaver, Eldridge

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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

38.

It is always your next move.

Hill, Napoleon

39.

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

Dyer, Wayne

40.

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

Erickson, Marian

41.

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

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

Bible

44.

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

English, Jon

45.

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

46.

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

Edwards, Tryon

47.

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

Bhagavad Gita

48.

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

Armesto, Raul

49.

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

50.

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

Kelley, David