Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Choice

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Armesto, Raul

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

Kelley, David

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

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

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

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

10.

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

Garcia, Jerry

11.

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

12.

We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Johnson, Philip

13.

Thus we see that the all important thing is not killing or giving life, drinking or not drinking, living in the town or the country, being unlucky or lucky, winning or losing. It is how we win, how we lose, how we live or die, finally, how we choose.

Blyth, R. H.

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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

15.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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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

17.

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

Saying, Zen

18.

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

Waitley, Denis

20.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Barnes, Sondra Anice

24.

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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Any person who recognizes this greatest power... the power to choose. Begins to realize that he is the one that is doing the choosing and that friends, although they mean well, cannot do his choosing for him, nor can his relatives. Consequently, he develops real self-confidence based upon his own ability, upon his own action, and upon his own initiative.

Kohe, J. Martin

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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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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

28.

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

Erickson, Marian

29.

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

30.

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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Every choice you make has an end result.

Ziglar, Zig

32.

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

Bhagavad Gita

33.

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

Riley, Pat

34.

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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Let us choose to believe something good can happen.

Kohe, J. Martin

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

Dyer, Wayne

38.

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

39.

No one ever went broke by saying no too often.

Mackay, Harvey

40.

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

English, Jon

44.

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

Wister, Owen

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.

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

47.

Choice strengthens all.

Prescot, Neal

48.

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

Thomas, David

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