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

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.

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

Wilder, Thornton

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

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

It is always your next move.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Riley, Pat

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

Bible

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.

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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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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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

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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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Let us choose to believe something good can happen.

Kohe, J. Martin

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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

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

Mencken, H. L.

17.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Sirtis, Marina

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

Bible

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Thomas, David

28.

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

Fixx, James

29.

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

Dyer, Wayne

30.

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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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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A human being is a deciding being.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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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

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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.

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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

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

Barnes, Sondra Anice

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

41.

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

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No one ever went broke by saying no too often.

Mackay, Harvey

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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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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 can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.

A Course In Miracles

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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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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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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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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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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