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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

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

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

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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.

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

Wilder, Thornton

11.

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

12.

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

Fixx, James

13.

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

Thomas, David

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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.

17.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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

20.

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

Wister, Owen

21.

Every choice you make has an end result.

Ziglar, Zig

22.

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

Kelley, David

23.

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

Garcia, Jerry

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

Brown, Les

27.

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

28.

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

Nightingale, Earl

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

West, Mae

32.

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

33.

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

34.

You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.

Schechter, Solomon

35.

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

Cleaver, Eldridge

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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

39.

No one ever went broke by saying no too often.

Mackay, Harvey

40.

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

Barnes, Sondra Anice

42.

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

43.

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

Mencken, H. L.

44.

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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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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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

47.

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

48.

I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.

A Course In Miracles

49.

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

James, William

50.

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