Motivational Quotes

Choice

Choose your love, Love your choice.

- Monson, Thomas S.

Best Quotes about Choice

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.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

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

Walpole, Horace

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

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

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

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

10.

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

Kelley, David

11.

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

English, Jon

12.

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

13.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

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

15.

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

Armesto, Raul

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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

17.

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

18.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

19.

You are now at a crossroads. This is your opportunity to make the most important decision you will ever make. Forget your past. Who are you now? Who have you decided you really are now? Don't think about who you have been. Who are you now? Who have you decided to become? Make this decision consciously. Make it carefully. Make it powerfully.

Robbins, Anthony

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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

21.

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

James, William

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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

23.

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

Sirtis, Marina

24.

We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Johnson, Philip

25.

Choose your love, Love your choice.

Monson, Thomas S.

26.

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

Epictetus

27.

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

Cleaver, Eldridge

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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

29.

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

Bible

30.

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

Barnes, Sondra Anice

31.

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

Bhagavad Gita

32.

Let us choose to believe something good can happen.

Kohe, J. Martin

33.

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

34.

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

Mencken, H. L.

35.

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

Horton, Doug

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

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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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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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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

42.

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

Dyer, Wayne

43.

It is always your next move.

Hill, Napoleon

44.

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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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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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

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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

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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

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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

50.

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

Thomas, David