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

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

Walpole, Horace

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

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

Bible

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

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

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

Kelley, David

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

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

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

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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

13.

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

English, Jon

14.

Choice strengthens all.

Prescot, Neal

15.

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.

16.

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

Cleaver, Eldridge

17.

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

18.

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

19.

A human being is a deciding being.

Frankl, Viktor E.

20.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

21.

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

Fixx, James

22.

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

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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

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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

25.

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

West, Mae

26.

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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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

28.

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

Horton, Doug

29.

Choose your love, Love your choice.

Monson, Thomas S.

30.

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

Wilder, Thornton

31.

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.

32.

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

33.

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

Waitley, Denis

34.

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

35.

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

Wister, Owen

36.

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

37.

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

Garcia, Jerry

38.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

43.

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

44.

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

Thomas, David

45.

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

46.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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

48.

No one ever went broke by saying no too often.

Mackay, Harvey

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

Brown, Les