Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

- Erickson, Marian

Best Quotes about Choice

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

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Kelley, David

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

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

Wister, Owen

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

Dyer, Wayne

It is always your next move.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

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

10.

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

11.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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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

13.

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

Bible

16.

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

Fixx, James

17.

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

18.

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

Brown, Les

19.

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.

20.

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

Riley, Pat

21.

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

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Let us choose to believe something good can happen.

Kohe, J. Martin

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Our generation, like the one before us, must choose. Without the threat of the Cold War, without the pain of economic ruin, without the fresh memory of World War II's slaughter, it is tempting to pursue our private agendas -- to simply sit back and let history unfold. We must resist the temptation.

Clinton, Bill

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

James, William

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

32.

We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Johnson, Philip

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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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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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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

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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

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

Epictetus

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

Thomas, David

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Every choice you make has an end result.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Garcia, Jerry

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

Erickson, Marian

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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.

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

Horton, Doug

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No one ever went broke by saying no too often.

Mackay, Harvey

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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

49.

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

Walpole, Horace

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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