Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

- Dyer, Wayne

Best Quotes about Choice

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

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

Epictetus

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

Barnes, Sondra Anice

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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.

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

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.

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

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

Boswell, James

10.

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

Nightingale, Earl

11.

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

Kelley, David

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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

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It is always your next move.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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When we acknowledge that all of life is sacred and that each act is an act of choice and therefore sacred, then life is a sacred dance lived consciously each moment. When we live at this level, we participate in the creation of a better world. [The Circle is Sacred]

Lee, Scout Cloud

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

Brown, Les

19.

Every choice moves us closer to or farther away from something. Where are your choices taking your life? What do your behaviors demonstrate that you are saying yes or no to in life?

Allenbaugh, Eric

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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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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 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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You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.

Schechter, Solomon

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You are everything that is, your thoughts, your life, your dreams come true. You are everything you choose to be. You are as unlimited as the endless universe.

Helmstetter, Shad

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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

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

Edwards, Tryon

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

Bible

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

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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A human being is a deciding being.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

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

West, Mae

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

Thomas, David

34.

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

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

Saying, Zen

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Erickson, Marian

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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 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

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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

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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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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

46.

Choose your love, Love your choice.

Monson, Thomas S.

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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

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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

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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

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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