Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

- Nightingale, Earl

Best Quotes about Choice

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

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

James, William

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

English, Jon

Let us choose to believe something good can happen.

Kohe, J. Martin

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

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

We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us -- how we can take it, what we do with it -- and that is what really counts in the end. How to take the raw stuff of life and make it a thing of worth and beauty -- that is the test of living.

Newton, Joseph Fort

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

No one ever went broke by saying no too often.

Mackay, Harvey

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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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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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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

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

West, Mae

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

Kelley, David

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You are everything that is, your thoughts, your life, your dreams come true. You are everything you choose to be. You are as unlimited as the endless universe.

Helmstetter, Shad

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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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If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free,cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are...

Stevens, Cat

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Every choice you make has an end result.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Wister, Owen

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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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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

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

Epictetus

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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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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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A human being is a deciding being.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Saying, Zen

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

Barnes, Sondra Anice

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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

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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

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

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

Fixx, James

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

Waitley, Denis

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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.

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

Riley, Pat

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

Cleaver, Eldridge

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Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.

Carpenter, Liz

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

Bible

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

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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.

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