Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

- Walpole, Horace

Best Quotes about Choice

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

Garcia, Jerry

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Horton, Doug

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

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

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

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

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

10.

In the choice between changing one's mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Kelley, David

15.

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

16.

A human being is a deciding being.

Frankl, Viktor E.

17.

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

Thomas, David

18.

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

Epictetus

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Dyer, Wayne

25.

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

Walpole, Horace

26.

He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

27.

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

28.

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

Waitley, Denis

29.

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

Erickson, Marian

30.

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

Saying, Zen

31.

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

Dyer, Wayne

32.

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

English, Jon

33.

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

34.

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

Mencken, H. L.

35.

It is always your next move.

Hill, Napoleon

36.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

37.

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

38.

We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Johnson, Philip

39.

You can't choose up sides on a round world.

Dyer, Wayne

40.

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

41.

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

Waitley, Denis

42.

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

Brown, Les

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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.

47.

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

Wilder, Thornton

48.

We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.

Robbins, Anthony

49.

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.

50.

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