Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

Best Quotes about Choice

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

James, William

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

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

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

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

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

Cleaver, Eldridge

Choice strengthens all.

Prescot, Neal

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

10.

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

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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

12.

We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Johnson, Philip

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

Brown, Les

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Waitley, Denis

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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.

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

Saying, Zen

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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

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

Horton, Doug

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Every choice you make has an end result.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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

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

Sirtis, Marina

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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It is always your next move.

Hill, Napoleon

30.

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

Riley, Pat

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Garcia, Jerry

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A human being is a deciding being.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self. Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. You're always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

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

Bible

43.

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

Wilder, Thornton

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No one ever went broke by saying no too often.

Mackay, Harvey

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

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

Wister, Owen

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Walpole, Horace