Motivational Quotes

Choice

Every choice you make has an end result.

- Ziglar, Zig

Best Quotes about Choice

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

Sirtis, Marina

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

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

Brown, Les

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

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

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

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

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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.

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

11.

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.

12.

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

James, William

14.

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

15.

We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Johnson, Philip

16.

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

17.

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

Dyer, Wayne

18.

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

19.

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

English, Jon

20.

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

Garcia, Jerry

21.

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

Bible

22.

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

Epictetus

25.

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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No one ever went broke by saying no too often.

Mackay, Harvey

27.

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

Kelley, David

28.

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

29.

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

Mencken, H. L.

30.

A human being is a deciding being.

Frankl, Viktor E.

31.

I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.

A Course In Miracles

32.

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

Wilder, Thornton

33.

Every choice you make has an end result.

Ziglar, Zig

34.

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

35.

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

Riley, Pat

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

Waitley, Denis

37.

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

Cleaver, Eldridge

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Choice strengthens all.

Prescot, Neal

40.

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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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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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

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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

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It's so hard when I have to, And so easy when I want to.

Barnes, Sondra Anice

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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

46.

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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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

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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.

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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

50.

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

Dyer, Wayne