Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

- Barnes, Sondra Anice

Best Quotes about Choice

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.

A Course In Miracles

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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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It is always your next move.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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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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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

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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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A human being is a deciding being.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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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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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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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 can't choose up sides on a round world.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Barnes, Sondra Anice

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

Kelley, David

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Fixx, James

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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

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No one ever went broke by saying no too often.

Mackay, Harvey

33.

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 cannot be anything if you want to be everything.

Schechter, Solomon

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We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Johnson, Philip

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

Brown, Les

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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

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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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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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Even as a tortoise draws in its limbs, the wise can draw in their senses at will.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Bible

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The way to activate the seeds of your creation is by making choices about the results you want to create. When you make a choice, you activate vast human energies and resources, which otherwise go untapped. All too often people fail to focus their choices upon results and therefore their choices are ineffective. If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.

Fritz, Robert

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

Boswell, James

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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

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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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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