Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

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.

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

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

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

English, Jon

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

I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.

A Course In Miracles

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

We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Johnson, Philip

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

Brown, Les

10.

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

Bhagavad Gita

11.

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

12.

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

Riley, Pat

13.

You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don't find easy, or learn an awful lot very fast which is what I tried to do.

Fonda, Jane

14.

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

15.

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 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

17.

Every choice you make has an end result.

Ziglar, Zig

18.

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

Mencken, H. L.

19.

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

Wister, Owen

20.

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

21.

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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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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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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There are always two choices. Two paths to take. One is easy. And its only reward is that it's easy.

25.

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

Fixx, James

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

Bible

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

Kelley, David

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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

29.

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

Robbins, Anthony

33.

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

Dyer, Wayne

34.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

35.

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

Erickson, Marian

41.

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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You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.

Schechter, Solomon

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

Waitley, Denis

46.

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

Sirtis, Marina

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

49.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Walpole, Horace