Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

- Wister, Owen

Best Quotes about Choice

There are always two choices. Two paths to take. One is easy. And its only reward is that it's easy.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Thus we see that the all important thing is not killing or giving life, drinking or not drinking, living in the town or the country, being unlucky or lucky, winning or losing. It is how we win, how we lose, how we live or die, finally, how we choose.

Blyth, R. H.

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

Epictetus

No one ever went broke by saying no too often.

Mackay, Harvey

Choice strengthens all.

Prescot, Neal

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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

12.

You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.

Schechter, Solomon

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

Fixx, James

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It is always your next move.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Garcia, Jerry

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

Cleaver, Eldridge

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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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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

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

Edwards, Tryon

25.

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

Thomas, David

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

Riley, Pat

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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

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

Brown, Les

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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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We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Johnson, Philip

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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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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

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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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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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

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

Horton, Doug

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

Bhagavad Gita

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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

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

Sirtis, Marina

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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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