Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

Best Quotes about Choice

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

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

We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

Waitley, Denis

Choose your love, Love your choice.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Armesto, Raul

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

We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Johnson, Philip

10.

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

Saying, Zen

11.

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

12.

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

Riley, Pat

13.

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

Dyer, Wayne

14.

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

Bible

15.

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.

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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

17.

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

Fixx, James

18.

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

19.

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

Dyer, Wayne

21.

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

22.

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.

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Thomas, David

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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

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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 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

29.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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

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

English, Jon

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Every choice you make has an end result.

Ziglar, Zig

34.

We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road -- the one less traveled by -- offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.

Carson, Rachel

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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

36.

Let us choose to believe something good can happen.

Kohe, J. Martin

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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

38.

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Cleaver, Eldridge

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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

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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

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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.

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

West, Mae

45.

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

Mencken, H. L.

46.

Choice strengthens all.

Prescot, Neal

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