Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Choice

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

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

Thomas, David

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

Armesto, Raul

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

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

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

Bible

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

Wister, Owen

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

Barnes, Sondra Anice

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

Sirtis, Marina

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

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Choose your love, Love your choice.

Monson, Thomas S.

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The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs. Self-conceit often regards it as a sign of weakness to admit that a belief to which we have once committed ourselves is wrong. We get so identified with an idea that it is literally a pet notion and we rise to its defense and stop our eyes and ears to anything different.

Dewey, John

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

Cleaver, Eldridge

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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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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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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

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Kelley, David

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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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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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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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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It is always your next move.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Robbins, Anthony

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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

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Choice strengthens all.

Prescot, Neal

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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

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

Edwards, Tryon

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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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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