Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

Best Quotes about Choice

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

Thus we see that the all important thing is not killing or giving life, drinking or not drinking, living in the town or the country, being unlucky or lucky, winning or losing. It is how we win, how we lose, how we live or die, finally, how we choose.

Blyth, R. H.

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

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

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

A human being is a deciding being.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

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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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

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Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

Allen, James

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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.

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It is always your next move.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Johnson, Philip

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Sirtis, Marina

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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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You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.

Schechter, Solomon

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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

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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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No one ever went broke by saying no too often.

Mackay, Harvey

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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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Every choice you make has an end result.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Brown, Les

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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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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.

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Of all earthly creatures, humans alone have the power to choose.

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

Kelley, David

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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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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

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

Bible

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

Riley, Pat

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

Barnes, Sondra Anice

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

Wister, Owen

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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