Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

Best Quotes about Choice

Mitchell, Warren

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Johnson, Philip

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

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

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

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

Epictetus

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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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.

11.

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

Waitley, Denis

13.

Every choice you make has an end result.

Ziglar, Zig

14.

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

Walpole, Horace

15.

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

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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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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

18.

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.

19.

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

Riley, Pat

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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

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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

25.

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

26.

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

Dyer, Wayne

27.

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

28.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

29.

You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.

Schechter, Solomon

30.

That guy just cut right in front of me. But I'm not going to let it bother me. No. I'm on my way to work and I decided it doesn't matter who wants to cut in front of my lane today. I'm not going to let it bother me one bit. Once I get to work, find myself a parking space, if somebody wants to jump ahead of me and take it, I'm going to let them.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Bible

33.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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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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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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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

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

Bible

39.

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

West, Mae

40.

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

Wister, Owen

41.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Garcia, Jerry

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.

I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.

A Course In Miracles

47.

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

48.

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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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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Choose your love, Love your choice.

Monson, Thomas S.