Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

Best Quotes about Choice

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

Wilder, Thornton

Every choice you make has an end result.

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

Barnes, Sondra Anice

Let us choose to believe something good can happen.

Kohe, J. Martin

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

Dyer, Wayne

No one ever went broke by saying no too often.

Mackay, Harvey

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

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

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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

11.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

James, William

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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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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 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 do pretty much whatever we want to.

Johnson, Philip

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

Kelley, David

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It is always your next move.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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Choice strengthens all.

Prescot, Neal

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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

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

Bible

27.

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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We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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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

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Wister, Owen

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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

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You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self. Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. You're always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

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You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.

Schechter, Solomon

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Walpole, Horace

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

Garcia, Jerry

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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

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I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: Therefore choose life. [Deuteronomy 30:19]

Bible

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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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You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.

Chopra, Deepak