Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

Best Quotes about Choice

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 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

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

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

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

It is always your next move.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Boswell, James

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

Thomas, David

10.

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

Erickson, Marian

11.

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

Nightingale, Earl

12.

You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.

Schechter, Solomon

13.

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.

14.

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

Wilder, Thornton

15.

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

Garcia, Jerry

16.

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

17.

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

West, Mae

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Bhagavad Gita

22.

We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Johnson, Philip

23.

No one ever went broke by saying no too often.

Mackay, Harvey

24.

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

25.

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

Walpole, Horace

26.

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

Thomas, David

27.

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

28.

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

Bible

29.

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

Edwards, Tryon

30.

What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.

Buscaglia, Leo

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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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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 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.

36.

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

Waitley, Denis

37.

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

Sirtis, Marina

38.

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

Armesto, Raul

39.

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

40.

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

Dyer, Wayne

41.

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

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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

43.

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

44.

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

Horton, Doug

45.

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

46.

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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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

48.

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

49.

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

Kelley, David

50.

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.