Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

- Boswell, James

Best Quotes about Choice

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

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Bible

Choose your love, Love your choice.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Fixx, James

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

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own choosing; when we do, the performance is itself the wage.

Hand, Learned

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

Thomas, 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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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

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Before my accidents, there were ten thousands things I could do. I could spend the rest of my life dwelling on the things that I had lost, but instead I chose to focus on the nine thousand I still had left.

Mitchell, W.

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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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Every choice you make has an end result.

Ziglar, Zig

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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

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

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

Saying, Zen

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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

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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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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

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

Garcia, Jerry

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

Sirtis, Marina

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Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.

Carpenter, Liz

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

Kelley, David

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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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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.

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

Epictetus

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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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You see, it's never the environment; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events -- how we interpret them -- that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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Let us choose to believe something good can happen.

Kohe, J. Martin

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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

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

Erickson, Marian

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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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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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There is an election going on all the time... the Lord votes for you and Satan votes against you, and you must cast the deciding vote.