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

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

Sirtis, Marina

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

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

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

James, William

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

Fixx, James

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

10.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

11.

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

12.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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

15.

Choose your love, Love your choice.

Monson, Thomas S.

16.

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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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

18.

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

English, Jon

19.

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

Kelley, David

20.

You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.

Schechter, Solomon

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

Saying, Zen

23.

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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It is your own convictions which compels you; that is, choice compels choice.

Epictetus

25.

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

Bible

27.

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

Bhagavad Gita

28.

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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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

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

Garcia, Jerry

31.

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

32.

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 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

34.

We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Johnson, Philip

35.

Blyth, R. H.

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Every choice you make has an end result.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Choice strengthens all.

Prescot, Neal

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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

40.

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

Barnes, Sondra Anice

41.

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

Dyer, Wayne

42.

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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Man?s power of choice enables him to think like an angel or a devil, a king or a slave. Whatever he chooses, mind will create and manifest.

Bailes, Frederick

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

Robbins, Anthony

45.

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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You are either part of the solution or part of the problem.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Edwards, Tryon

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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

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

Bible

50.

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

Wilder, Thornton