Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

Best Quotes about Choice

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

A human being is a deciding being.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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 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.

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

Saying, Zen

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

That guy just cut right in front of me. But I'm not going to let it bother me. No. I'm on my way to work and I decided it doesn't matter who wants to cut in front of my lane today. I'm not going to let it bother me one bit. Once I get to work, find myself a parking space, if somebody wants to jump ahead of me and take it, I'm going to let them.

Winfrey, Oprah

10.

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

Brown, Les

11.

He that cannot decidedly say, No, when tempted to evil, is on the highway to ruin. He loses the respect even of those who would tempt him, and becomes but the pliant tool and victim of their evil designs.

Hawes, Joel

12.

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

Sirtis, Marina

13.

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

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No one ever went broke by saying no too often.

Mackay, Harvey

15.

I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.

Boswell, James

16.

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

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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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The perfect way is without difficulty, for it avoids picking and choosing. Only when you stop liking and disliking will all be clearly understood. Be not concerned with right or wrong, for the conflict between right and wrong is the sickness of the mind.

Seng-Ts'an

19.

Watch what you choose to do. For instance, someone might want you to smoke. Never forget that I told you -- don't do it. Say no. That can of beer that somebody wants you to try, don't do it. Don't you ever do it. That drug that someone might want you to use, don't touch it. Stay away from it. It can destroy you.

Hinckley, Gordon B.

20.

Let us choose to believe something good can happen.

Kohe, J. Martin

21.

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

22.

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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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

24.

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

Erickson, Marian

25.

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

Armesto, Raul

26.

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

Waitley, Denis

27.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

28.

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

Thomas, David

29.

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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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

31.

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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It is always your next move.

Hill, Napoleon

33.

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

34.

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

Dyer, Wayne

36.

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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Choose your love, Love your choice.

Monson, Thomas S.

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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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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.

40.

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

Kelley, David

41.

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.

42.

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

James, William

44.

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

Edwards, Tryon

45.

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

46.

You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.

Schechter, Solomon

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

Bible

49.

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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I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.

A Course In Miracles