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

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

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

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

English, Jon

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

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

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

Horton, Doug

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

Erickson, Marian

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Dyer, Wayne

10.

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

Kelley, David

11.

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

Garcia, Jerry

12.

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

13.

No one ever went broke by saying no too often.

Mackay, Harvey

14.

People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be -- whether they will admit that or not.

Nightingale, Earl

15.

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

Armesto, Raul

16.

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

17.

Every choice moves us closer to or farther away from something. Where are your choices taking your life? What do your behaviors demonstrate that you are saying yes or no to in life?

Allenbaugh, Eric

18.

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

Waitley, Denis

19.

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.

20.

A human being is a deciding being.

Frankl, Viktor E.

21.

We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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.

26.

If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.

Atwood, Margaret

27.

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

Thomas, David

28.

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

Saying, Zen

29.

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

Edwards, Tryon

30.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

31.

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

Bible

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Fixx, James

35.

I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.

Boswell, James

36.

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

37.

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

Walpole, Horace

38.

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

West, Mae

39.

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

Riley, Pat

40.

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

Dyer, Wayne

41.

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

42.

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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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

44.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

45.

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

46.

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.

47.

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

48.

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

49.

You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.

Schechter, Solomon

50.

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

Waitley, Denis