Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

Best Quotes about Choice

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

Waitley, Denis

Let us choose to believe something good can happen.

Kohe, J. Martin

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

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

No one ever went broke by saying no too often.

Mackay, Harvey

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.

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

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that in itself is a choice.

James, William

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

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

Wilder, Thornton

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

Dyer, Wayne

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A human being is a deciding being.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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.

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You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.

Schechter, Solomon

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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

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

Kelley, David

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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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That guy just cut right in front of me. But I'm not going to let it bother me. No. I'm on my way to work and I decided it doesn't matter who wants to cut in front of my lane today. I'm not going to let it bother me one bit. Once I get to work, find myself a parking space, if somebody wants to jump ahead of me and take it, I'm going to let them.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Bible

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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

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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

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Every choice you make has an end result.

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

Garcia, Jerry

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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

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

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

Brown, Les

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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

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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

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We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us -- how we can take it, what we do with it -- and that is what really counts in the end. How to take the raw stuff of life and make it a thing of worth and beauty -- that is the test of living.

Newton, Joseph Fort

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

Sirtis, Marina

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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

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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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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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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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Choose your love, Love your choice.

Monson, Thomas S.

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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

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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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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