Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

- Dyer, Wayne

Best Quotes about Choice

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

Riley, Pat

Any person who recognizes this greatest power... the power to choose. Begins to realize that he is the one that is doing the choosing and that friends, although they mean well, cannot do his choosing for him, nor can his relatives. Consequently, he develops real self-confidence based upon his own ability, upon his own action, and upon his own initiative.

Kohe, J. Martin

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.

Choice strengthens all.

Prescot, Neal

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

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

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

Barnes, Sondra Anice

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

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

10.

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.

11.

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

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

Horton, Doug

13.

No one ever went broke by saying no too often.

Mackay, Harvey

14.

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

Thomas, David

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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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Choose your love, Love your choice.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Boswell, James

18.

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

Garcia, Jerry

20.

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

Dyer, Wayne

21.

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

Kelley, David

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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

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

Waitley, Denis

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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

25.

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

26.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

27.

It is always your next move.

Hill, Napoleon

28.

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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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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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

31.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

33.

You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.

Schechter, Solomon

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

Bible

35.

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

James, William

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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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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

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That guy just cut right in front of me. But I'm not going to let it bother me. No. I'm on my way to work and I decided it doesn't matter who wants to cut in front of my lane today. I'm not going to let it bother me one bit. Once I get to work, find myself a parking space, if somebody wants to jump ahead of me and take it, I'm going to let them.

Winfrey, Oprah

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Let us choose to believe something good can happen.

Kohe, J. Martin

40.

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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A human being is a deciding being.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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

45.

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

Sirtis, Marina

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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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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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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

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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

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Everything is something you decide to do, and there is nothing you have to do.

Waitley, Denis