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

I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Armesto, Raul

10.

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

11.

No one ever went broke by saying no too often.

Mackay, Harvey

12.

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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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.

14.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Choice strengthens all.

Prescot, Neal

16.

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

Sirtis, Marina

17.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

18.

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

Wister, Owen

19.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Bible

21.

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

Kelley, David

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

Erickson, Marian

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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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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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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.

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

Saying, Zen

28.

It is always your next move.

Hill, Napoleon

29.

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

Thomas, David

30.

Let us choose to believe something good can happen.

Kohe, J. Martin

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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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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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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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

35.

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

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

Garcia, Jerry

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Every choice you make has an end result.

Ziglar, Zig

38.

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

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

Brown, Les

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A human being is a deciding being.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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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

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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

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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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We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Johnson, Philip

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

Epictetus

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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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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