Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

- Glasgow, Ellen

Best Quotes about Choice

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

Barnes, Sondra Anice

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

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

Walpole, Horace

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Epictetus

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

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

Bible

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

10.

You can lay down and die, or you can get up and fight, but that's it -- there's no turning back.

English, Jon

11.

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

12.

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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Choice strengthens all.

Prescot, Neal

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

Horton, Doug

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Every choice you make has an end result.

Ziglar, Zig

20.

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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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.

22.

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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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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I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.

A Course In Miracles

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

Cleaver, Eldridge

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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

27.

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

Sirtis, Marina

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Choose your love, Love your choice.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Mencken, H. L.

32.

We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Johnson, Philip

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

Bible

34.

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

Wister, Owen

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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

36.

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

Riley, Pat

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

Kelley, David

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

James, William

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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

49.

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

Edwards, Tryon