Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

Best Quotes about Choice

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

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

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

Erickson, Marian

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Thomas, David

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

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.

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.

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

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

Riley, Pat

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Watch what you choose to do. For instance, someone might want you to smoke. Never forget that I told you -- don't do it. Say no. That can of beer that somebody wants you to try, don't do it. Don't you ever do it. That drug that someone might want you to use, don't touch it. Stay away from it. It can destroy you.

Hinckley, Gordon B.

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You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.

Schechter, Solomon

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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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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

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

Brown, Les

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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A human being is a deciding being.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Let us choose to believe something good can happen.

Kohe, J. Martin

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

Edwards, Tryon

27.

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

Thomas, David

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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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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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Inhabit ourselves that we may indeed do what we want to do.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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You can choose to be lazy or you can choose to be ambitious. Stop to think about it again. Don't you do your own choosing?

Kohe, J. Martin

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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

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

West, Mae

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

Garcia, Jerry

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

Armesto, Raul

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

Wister, Owen

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

Wilder, Thornton

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

Walpole, Horace

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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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As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices, by making the most of the talents we've been given.

Retton, Mary Lou

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