Motivational Quotes

Choice

Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Choice

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

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

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

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

Armesto, Raul

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

Thomas, David

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Walpole, Horace

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

10.

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

Edwards, Tryon

11.

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

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

Saying, Zen

13.

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

Cleaver, Eldridge

14.

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

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

James, William

16.

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

17.

I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.

A Course In Miracles

18.

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

19.

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.

20.

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

21.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

22.

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

Kelley, David

23.

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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Choice strengthens all.

Prescot, Neal

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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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We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

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

Wilder, Thornton

28.

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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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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.

Brown, Les

33.

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

Dyer, Wayne

34.

We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Johnson, Philip

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

Thomas, David

36.

Choose your love, Love your choice.

Monson, Thomas S.

37.

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

Wister, Owen

38.

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.

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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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You can choose to be lazy or you can choose to be ambitious. Stop to think about it again. Don't you do your own choosing?

Kohe, J. Martin

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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

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

Bhagavad Gita

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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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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

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You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.

Schechter, Solomon

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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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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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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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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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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