Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

Best Quotes about Choice

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

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

Wilder, Thornton

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

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

Garcia, Jerry

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

Barnes, Sondra Anice

11.

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

Brown, Les

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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 cannot be anything if you want to be everything.

Schechter, Solomon

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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.

18.

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

19.

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

Fixx, James

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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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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

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

27.

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

English, Jon

28.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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

31.

Watch what you choose to do. For instance, someone might want you to smoke. Never forget that I told you -- don't do it. Say no. That can of beer that somebody wants you to try, don't do it. Don't you ever do it. That drug that someone might want you to use, don't touch it. Stay away from it. It can destroy you.

Hinckley, Gordon B.

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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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Every choice you make has an end result.

Ziglar, Zig

34.

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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A human being is a deciding being.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Saying, Zen

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Let us choose to believe something good can happen.

Kohe, J. Martin

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

James, William

41.

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

Edwards, Tryon

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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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No one ever went broke by saying no too often.

Mackay, Harvey

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

47.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Sirtis, Marina