Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

- Edwards, Tryon

Best Quotes about Choice

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

Riley, Pat

Everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedom -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Saying, Zen

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

Erickson, Marian

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

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

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

10.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

11.

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

James, William

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

English, Jon

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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

14.

There is an election going on all the time... the Lord votes for you and Satan votes against you, and you must cast the deciding vote.

15.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

16.

You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.

Schechter, Solomon

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

Horton, Doug

18.

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

Waitley, Denis

19.

Let us choose to believe something good can happen.

Kohe, J. Martin

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Wilder, Thornton

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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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A human being is a deciding being.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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

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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 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

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

Epictetus

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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

30.

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

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

Fixx, James

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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.

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

Armesto, Raul

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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.

35.

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

Mencken, H. L.

36.

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

Dyer, Wayne

38.

You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don't find easy, or learn an awful lot very fast which is what I tried to do.

Fonda, Jane

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

Brown, Les

42.

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

Barnes, Sondra Anice

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

Sirtis, Marina

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

45.

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

Bible

46.

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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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.

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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

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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

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

Walpole, Horace