Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

- Richards, Mary Caroline

Best Quotes about Choice

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

I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.

A Course In Miracles

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

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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.

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

James, William

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.

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

Bible

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

10.

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

11.

Every choice you make has an end result.

Ziglar, Zig

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.

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

Thomas, David

14.

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

Waitley, Denis

16.

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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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.

18.

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

Cleaver, Eldridge

19.

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

Fixx, James

22.

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

Wister, Owen

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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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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

25.

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

Dyer, Wayne

26.

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

Horton, Doug

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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

28.

No one ever went broke by saying no too often.

Mackay, Harvey

29.

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

30.

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

West, Mae

31.

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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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

33.

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

34.

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

Garcia, Jerry

36.

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

Wilder, Thornton

37.

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

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

Epictetus

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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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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.

42.

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

43.

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

Barnes, Sondra Anice

44.

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

45.

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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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

47.

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

48.

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.

49.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

50.

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