Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

Best Quotes about Choice

No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

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

Thomas, David

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

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

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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.

11.

You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.

Schechter, Solomon

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A human being is a deciding being.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Sirtis, Marina

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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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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 Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences.

Saying, Zen

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

Walpole, Horace

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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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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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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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Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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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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

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

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

Riley, Pat

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You are now at a crossroads. This is your opportunity to make the most important decision you will ever make. Forget your past. Who are you now? Who have you decided you really are now? Don't think about who you have been. Who are you now? Who have you decided to become? Make this decision consciously. Make it carefully. Make it powerfully.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Brown, Les

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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.

36.

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

Garcia, Jerry

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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

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

41.

We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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It is always your next move.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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

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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

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

Wister, Owen