Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

Best Quotes about Choice

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

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Horton, Doug

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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.

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

Choose your love, Love your choice.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Kelley, David

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

Bhagavad Gita

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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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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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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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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 have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.

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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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Let us choose to believe something good can happen.

Kohe, J. Martin

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

Barnes, Sondra Anice

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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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Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

Stone, W. Clement

23.

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.

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

Bible

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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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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

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

Edwards, Tryon

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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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No one ever went broke by saying no too often.

Mackay, Harvey

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Wilder, Thornton

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It is always your next move.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

39.

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

Fixx, James

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

Epictetus

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

English, Jon

43.

We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Johnson, Philip

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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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.

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I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.

A Course In Miracles

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

Walpole, Horace