Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

Best Quotes about Choice

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

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

Buscaglia, Leo

Choose your love, Love your choice.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

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

Thomas, David

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

Walpole, Horace

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

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.

You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.

Schechter, Solomon

12.

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

English, Jon

13.

Most of life is choices, and the rest is pure dumb luck.

Erickson, Marian

14.

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

15.

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

Bible

16.

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

Thomas, David

17.

It is always your next move.

Hill, Napoleon

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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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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

22.

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

23.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Johnson, Philip

25.

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

James, William

26.

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

27.

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

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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

29.

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

30.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

31.

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

Waitley, Denis

32.

Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.

Edwards, Tryon

33.

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

Horton, Doug

34.

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

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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

36.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Cleaver, Eldridge

39.

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

Wilder, Thornton

40.

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

41.

The way to activate the seeds of your creation is by making choices about the results you want to create. When you make a choice, you activate vast human energies and resources, which otherwise go untapped. All too often people fail to focus their choices upon results and therefore their choices are ineffective. If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.

Fritz, Robert

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

43.

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

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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

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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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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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

49.

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

Dyer, Wayne