Motivational Quotes

Choice

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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Best Quotes about Choice

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

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

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 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

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Cleaver, Eldridge

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.

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

Garcia, Jerry

10.

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

Sirtis, Marina

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Bible

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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

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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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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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It is always your next move.

Hill, Napoleon

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Choose your love, Love your choice.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Walpole, Horace

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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

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

Edwards, Tryon

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I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.

A Course In Miracles

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

Horton, Doug

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

Saying, Zen

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

Wilder, Thornton

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

Epictetus

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

Wister, Owen

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Dyer, Wayne

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On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us --ah! what a dream, to live in that! --the other stifles us at the first breath.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Armesto, Raul

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

James, William

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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.

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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.

44.

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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Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

Allen, James

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A human being is a deciding being.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Thomas, David

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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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It is not something I must do but something I want to do

Fixx, James

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