Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

Best Quotes about Choice

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

Bible

I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.

A Course In Miracles

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

Every choice you make has an end result.

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

Sirtis, Marina

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.

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

A human being is a deciding being.

Frankl, Viktor E.

10.

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

11.

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

Robbins, Anthony

12.

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

Dyer, Wayne

13.

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

14.

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

Dyer, Wayne

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Garcia, Jerry

18.

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

19.

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

English, Jon

20.

You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.

Schechter, Solomon

21.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

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

Wister, Owen

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

James, William

26.

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.

27.

I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.

Boswell, James

28.

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

Walpole, Horace

29.

No one ever went broke by saying no too often.

Mackay, Harvey

30.

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

31.

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

Epictetus

32.

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

33.

Choice strengthens all.

Prescot, Neal

34.

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

Brown, Les

35.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Kelley, David

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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.

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Horton, Doug

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Bible

48.

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

49.

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.

50.

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