Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

- Sirtis, Marina

Best Quotes about Choice

You can lay down and die, or you can get up and fight, but that's it -- there's no turning back.

English, Jon

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

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

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

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

I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: Therefore choose life. [Deuteronomy 30:19]

Bible

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

Armesto, Raul

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

Epictetus

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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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

11.

Let us choose to believe something good can happen.

Kohe, J. Martin

12.

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

Kelley, David

13.

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

14.

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

Nightingale, Earl

15.

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

Thomas, David

16.

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

17.

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

Erickson, Marian

18.

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

West, Mae

19.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

20.

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

21.

Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.

Carpenter, Liz

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

James, William

23.

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

24.

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

Wilder, Thornton

25.

Choice strengthens all.

Prescot, Neal

26.

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

Barnes, Sondra Anice

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Bible

30.

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

Horton, Doug

31.

No one ever went broke by saying no too often.

Mackay, Harvey

32.

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

Bhagavad Gita

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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

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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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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.

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It is always your next move.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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

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

Cleaver, Eldridge

42.

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

Brown, Les

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

Walpole, Horace

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

Waitley, Denis

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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