Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

Best Quotes about Choice

Before my accidents, there were ten thousands things I could do. I could spend the rest of my life dwelling on the things that I had lost, but instead I chose to focus on the nine thousand I still had left.

Mitchell, W.

A human being is a deciding being.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

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

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Thomas, David

Watch what you choose to do. For instance, someone might want you to smoke. Never forget that I told you -- don't do it. Say no. That can of beer that somebody wants you to try, don't do it. Don't you ever do it. That drug that someone might want you to use, don't touch it. Stay away from it. It can destroy you.

Hinckley, Gordon B.

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

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

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

Riley, Pat

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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.

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Dyer, Wayne

17.

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

Horton, Doug

18.

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

Erickson, Marian

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

Bible

20.

You can choose to be lazy or you can choose to be ambitious. Stop to think about it again. Don't you do your own choosing?

Kohe, J. Martin

21.

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

Wilder, Thornton

23.

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

24.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

25.

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

26.

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

West, Mae

27.

That guy just cut right in front of me. But I'm not going to let it bother me. No. I'm on my way to work and I decided it doesn't matter who wants to cut in front of my lane today. I'm not going to let it bother me one bit. Once I get to work, find myself a parking space, if somebody wants to jump ahead of me and take it, I'm going to let them.

Winfrey, Oprah

28.

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.

29.

Let us choose to believe something good can happen.

Kohe, J. Martin

30.

Choice strengthens all.

Prescot, Neal

31.

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

32.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

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

Epictetus

34.

The first thing I do in the morning is to make my bed and while I am making up my bed I am making up my mind as to what kind of a day I am going to have.

Frost, Robert

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Choose your love, Love your choice.

Monson, Thomas S.

38.

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

Saying, Zen

39.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

40.

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

Dyer, Wayne

41.

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

42.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

43.

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

44.

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

45.

Every choice you make has an end result.

Ziglar, Zig

46.

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

47.

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

English, Jon

48.

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

49.

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 highest order of mind is accused of folly, as well as the lowest. Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.

Pascal, Blaise