Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Choice

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

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

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

Wister, Owen

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

Barnes, Sondra Anice

We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Johnson, Philip

It is always your next move.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bible

You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.

Schechter, Solomon

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

Sirtis, Marina

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.

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

Brown, Les

12.

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

13.

A human being is a deciding being.

Frankl, Viktor E.

14.

I like to be a free spirit. Some don't like that, but that's the way I am.

Diana, Princess of Wales

15.

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

16.

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

Kelley, David

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Dyer, Wayne

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

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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

24.

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

25.

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

Epictetus

26.

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

Fixx, James

27.

I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.

A Course In Miracles

28.

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

Thomas, David

29.

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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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

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

Waitley, Denis

32.

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

33.

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.

34.

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.

35.

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

36.

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

Bhagavad Gita

37.

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

Mencken, H. L.

38.

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

Saying, Zen

39.

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

40.

Let us choose to believe something good can happen.

Kohe, J. Martin

41.

I knew that I did not have to buy into society's notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to be happy. I was in charge of my spaceship and it was my up, my down. I could choose to see this situation as a setback or as a starting point. I chose to begin life again.

Mitchell, Warren

42.

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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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

44.

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

Nightingale, Earl

45.

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

46.

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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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

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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

49.

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

West, Mae