Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Choice

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

Bible

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

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

Garcia, Jerry

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

West, Mae

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

Edwards, Tryon

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

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

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

Kelley, David

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

Bible

10.

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

11.

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

Walpole, Horace

12.

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

Thomas, David

13.

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

14.

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

Armesto, Raul

15.

I like to be a free spirit. Some don't like that, but that's the way I am.

Diana, Princess of Wales

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Brown, Les

19.

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

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

Wister, Owen

21.

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

22.

A human being is a deciding being.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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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 cannot be anything if you want to be everything.

Schechter, Solomon

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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.

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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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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

36.

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

37.

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

38.

Seeing the light is a choice, not seeing the light is no choice.

Horton, Doug

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

Glasgow, Ellen