Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

- Fixx, James

Best Quotes about Choice

If there are things you don't like in the world you grew up in, make your own life different.

Thomas, David

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

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

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

Garcia, Jerry

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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.

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

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

10.

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

Barnes, Sondra Anice

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Kelley, David

14.

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

15.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

16.

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

17.

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

Bible

18.

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

Boswell, James

19.

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.

20.

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

21.

Every choice you make has an end result.

Ziglar, Zig

22.

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

Epictetus

23.

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

Dyer, Wayne

24.

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

Cleaver, Eldridge

25.

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

Dyer, Wayne

26.

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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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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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

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

Erickson, Marian

32.

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

33.

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

Wilder, Thornton

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

35.

I knew that I did not have to buy into society's notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to be happy. I was in charge of my spaceship and it was my up, my down. I could choose to see this situation as a setback or as a starting point. I chose to begin life again.

Mitchell, Warren

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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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Choose your love, Love your choice.

Monson, Thomas S.

38.

No one ever went broke by saying no too often.

Mackay, Harvey

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

Walpole, Horace

40.

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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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

42.

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

Waitley, Denis

43.

It is always your next move.

Hill, Napoleon

44.

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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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

46.

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

West, Mae

49.

There has never been another you. With no effort on your part you were born to be something very special and set apart. What you are going to do in appreciation of that gift is a decision only you can make.

Zadra, Dan

50.

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

Edwards, Tryon