Motivational Quotes

Choice

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.

Best Quotes about Choice

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

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Bible

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

Thomas, David

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 stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road -- the one less traveled by -- offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.

Carson, Rachel

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

Edwards, Tryon

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

Thomas, David

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

10.

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

Bible

11.

Choose your love, Love your choice.

Monson, Thomas S.

12.

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

13.

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

Kelley, David

14.

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

Dyer, Wayne

15.

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

Dyer, Wayne

16.

You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.

Schechter, Solomon

17.

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

18.

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

Wilder, Thornton

19.

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

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.

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

Dyer, Wayne

22.

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

Armesto, Raul

23.

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

Garcia, Jerry

25.

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

26.

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

Nightingale, Earl

27.

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

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Blyth, R. H.

29.

I like to be a free spirit. Some don't like that, but that's the way I am.

Diana, Princess of Wales

30.

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

Saying, Zen

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.

Let us choose to believe something good can happen.

Kohe, J. Martin

34.

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

Riley, Pat

36.

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

Walpole, Horace

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It is always your next move.

Hill, Napoleon

38.

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

39.

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

Fixx, James

40.

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

41.

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.

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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

43.

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

Erickson, Marian

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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 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

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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