Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

Best Quotes about Choice

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

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

A human being is a deciding being.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

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

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

Bible

We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Thomas, David

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

10.

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

11.

You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.

Schechter, Solomon

12.

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

Kelley, David

13.

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

Mencken, H. L.

14.

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

Fixx, James

15.

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

Barnes, Sondra Anice

16.

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

17.

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.

18.

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

Dyer, Wayne

19.

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

Edwards, Tryon

20.

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

Dyer, Wayne

21.

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

22.

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

Thomas, David

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Waitley, Denis

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Let us choose to believe something good can happen.

Kohe, J. Martin

30.

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

31.

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

32.

We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Johnson, Philip

33.

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

Robbins, Anthony

34.

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

35.

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

Riley, Pat

36.

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.

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

38.

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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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

40.

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.

41.

There is no shame in finding someone else to be attractive, or good company. Even if they don't like you, there is still no shame. If you happen to be fond of someone, and they're not fond of you, it's OK.. You don't have to wait and see if they'll love you back. You can announce it.. Joy in life comes from expressing ourselves, in taking risks and jumping in. Everyone is not going to like you. But you can like who you like.

Matthews, Andrew

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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

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

Wister, Owen

44.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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Choose your love, Love your choice.

Monson, Thomas S.

49.

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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Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.

Carpenter, Liz