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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Barnes, Sondra Anice

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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

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

Kelley, David

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.

Schechter, Solomon

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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 either part of the solution or part of the problem.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Garcia, Jerry

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

Horton, Doug

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

Walpole, Horace

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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 do pretty much whatever we want to.

Johnson, Philip

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

Erickson, Marian

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

Edwards, Tryon

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

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

Wilder, Thornton

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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

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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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Robbins, Anthony

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Every choice you make has an end result.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Sirtis, Marina

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Once in a while it really hits people that they don't have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.

Keightley, Alan

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

Brown, Les

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

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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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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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Choice strengthens all.

Prescot, Neal

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There has never been another you. With no effort on your part you were born to be something very special and set apart. What you are going to do in appreciation of that gift is a decision only you can make.

Zadra, Dan

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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