Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

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

We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Johnson, Philip

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.

Let us choose to believe something good can happen.

Kohe, J. Martin

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.

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

West, Mae

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.

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

I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.

A Course In Miracles

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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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The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences.

Saying, Zen

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Choose your love, Love your choice.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Horton, Doug

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

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

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

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Before my accidents, there were ten thousands things I could do. I could spend the rest of my life dwelling on the things that I had lost, but instead I chose to focus on the nine thousand I still had left.

Mitchell, W.

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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 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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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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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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Hawes, Joel

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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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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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That guy just cut right in front of me. But I'm not going to let it bother me. No. I'm on my way to work and I decided it doesn't matter who wants to cut in front of my lane today. I'm not going to let it bother me one bit. Once I get to work, find myself a parking space, if somebody wants to jump ahead of me and take it, I'm going to let them.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.

Schechter, Solomon

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Choice strengthens all.

Prescot, Neal

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A human being is a deciding being.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Epictetus

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There is no shame in finding someone else to be attractive, or good company. Even if they don't like you, there is still no shame. If you happen to be fond of someone, and they're not fond of you, it's OK.. You don't have to wait and see if they'll love you back. You can announce it.. Joy in life comes from expressing ourselves, in taking risks and jumping in. Everyone is not going to like you. But you can like who you like.

Matthews, Andrew

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

Erickson, Marian

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

Barnes, Sondra Anice

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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

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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

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

Brown, Les

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Bible

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