Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

- Epictetus

Best Quotes about Choice

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

Every choice you make has an end result.

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

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

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

Wister, Owen

Choose your love, Love your choice.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Glasgow, Ellen

10.

Let us choose to believe something good can happen.

Kohe, J. Martin

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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

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No one ever went broke by saying no too often.

Mackay, Harvey

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

Erickson, Marian

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

Edwards, Tryon

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A human being is a deciding being.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

21.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Bible

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You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self. Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. You're always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

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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

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

Bible

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I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.

A Course In Miracles

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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.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Man?s power of choice enables him to think like an angel or a devil, a king or a slave. Whatever he chooses, mind will create and manifest.

Bailes, Frederick

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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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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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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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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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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

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

Brown, Les

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Choice strengthens all.

Prescot, Neal

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

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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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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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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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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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Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.

Walpole, Horace

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

Sirtis, Marina

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

Epictetus

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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.

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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