Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

- Richards, Mary Caroline

Best Quotes about Choice

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

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

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

Edwards, Tryon

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

Bible

Choose your love, Love your choice.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Wilder, Thornton

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

10.

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

Garcia, Jerry

11.

Let us choose to believe something good can happen.

Kohe, J. Martin

12.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

13.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Riley, Pat

15.

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.

16.

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

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

Walpole, Horace

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

James, William

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

Sirtis, Marina

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

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You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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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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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

30.

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

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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.

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

Horton, Doug

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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

35.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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It is always your next move.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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No one ever went broke by saying no too often.

Mackay, Harvey

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Thomas, David

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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

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There is no shame in finding someone else to be attractive, or good company. Even if they don't like you, there is still no shame. If you happen to be fond of someone, and they're not fond of you, it's OK.. You don't have to wait and see if they'll love you back. You can announce it.. Joy in life comes from expressing ourselves, in taking risks and jumping in. Everyone is not going to like you. But you can like who you like.

Matthews, Andrew

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

Erickson, Marian

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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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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

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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