Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

Best Quotes about Choice

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

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

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

Edwards, Tryon

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 life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Thomas, David

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

10.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

Every choice you make has an end result.

Ziglar, Zig

12.

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

13.

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.

14.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

15.

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

16.

Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.

Brown, Les

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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

18.

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

19.

There are always two choices. Two paths to take. One is easy. And its only reward is that it's easy.

20.

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.

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

Walpole, Horace

22.

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.

23.

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

West, Mae

24.

Let us choose to believe something good can happen.

Kohe, J. Martin

25.

It is always your next move.

Hill, Napoleon

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Choice strengthens all.

Prescot, Neal

27.

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

Thomas, David

28.

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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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

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

Erickson, Marian

32.

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

Armesto, Raul

33.

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

Bible

34.

Choose your love, Love your choice.

Monson, Thomas S.

35.

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

Dyer, Wayne

36.

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

37.

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

Cleaver, Eldridge

38.

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.

39.

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

Sirtis, Marina

40.

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

Garcia, Jerry

41.

No one ever went broke by saying no too often.

Mackay, Harvey

42.

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

Fixx, James

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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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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

48.

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

49.

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

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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