Motivational Quotes

Choice

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.

Best Quotes about Choice

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

Guest, Edgar A.

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

Bible

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Kelley, David

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

James, William

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

10.

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

11.

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

Dyer, Wayne

12.

Choose your love, Love your choice.

Monson, Thomas S.

13.

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

14.

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.

15.

We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Johnson, Philip

16.

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

Fixx, James

17.

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

Wilder, Thornton

18.

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

Waitley, Denis

19.

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

20.

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

Robbins, Anthony

21.

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.

22.

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

Barnes, Sondra Anice

23.

We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

The world isn't interested in the storms you encountered, but whether or not you brought in the ship.

Armesto, Raul

25.

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

26.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

27.

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

Brown, Les

28.

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

29.

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

Wister, Owen

30.

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

31.

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

Erickson, Marian

32.

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.

33.

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

West, Mae

34.

No one ever went broke by saying no too often.

Mackay, Harvey

35.

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

36.

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

Bible

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Garcia, Jerry

43.

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

44.

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

Epictetus

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Dyer, Wayne

48.

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

49.

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

Thomas, David

50.

People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be -- whether they will admit that or not.

Nightingale, Earl