Motivational Quotes

Choice

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.

Best Quotes about Choice

The world isn't interested in the storms you encountered, but whether or not you brought in the ship.

Armesto, Raul

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

Mitchell, W.

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.

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

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

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

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

Wilder, Thornton

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Choice strengthens all.

Prescot, Neal

13.

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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You can do what you want to do. You can be what you want to be.

Thomas, David

15.

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

Epictetus

16.

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

Thomas, David

18.

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

Waitley, Denis

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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.

24.

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

Saying, Zen

25.

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

26.

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

Bible

27.

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

Cleaver, Eldridge

28.

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

29.

In the choice between changing one's mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

30.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

31.

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

32.

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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A human being is a deciding being.

Frankl, Viktor E.

34.

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

35.

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

Sirtis, Marina

36.

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

Fixx, James

37.

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

38.

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.

Choose your love, Love your choice.

Monson, Thomas S.

40.

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

Barnes, Sondra Anice

41.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

42.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Johnson, Philip

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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

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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

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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

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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

49.

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

Waitley, Denis

50.

No one ever went broke by saying no too often.

Mackay, Harvey