Motivational Quotes

Choice

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Choice

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

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

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.

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

Walpole, Horace

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

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

10.

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

11.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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A human being is a deciding being.

Frankl, Viktor E.

15.

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

Fixx, James

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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

17.

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

Kelley, David

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

It is always your next move.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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

25.

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

Horton, Doug

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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.

29.

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

Cleaver, Eldridge

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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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Choice strengthens all.

Prescot, Neal

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No one ever went broke by saying no too often.

Mackay, Harvey

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

Epictetus

35.

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

English, Jon

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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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

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We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us -- how we can take it, what we do with it -- and that is what really counts in the end. How to take the raw stuff of life and make it a thing of worth and beauty -- that is the test of living.

Newton, Joseph Fort

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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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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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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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Choose your love, Love your choice.

Monson, Thomas S.

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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

46.

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

Bible

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

Riley, Pat

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I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.

A Course In Miracles