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

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

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

Fixx, James

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

Waitley, Denis

You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.

Schechter, Solomon

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

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

Armesto, Raul

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

10.

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

11.

I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.

A Course In Miracles

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

Dyer, Wayne

14.

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

Barnes, Sondra Anice

15.

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

Garcia, Jerry

16.

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

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.

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

Brown, Les

19.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

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

Walpole, Horace

21.

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

Saying, Zen

22.

There is no shame in finding someone else to be attractive, or good company. Even if they don't like you, there is still no shame. If you happen to be fond of someone, and they're not fond of you, it's OK.. You don't have to wait and see if they'll love you back. You can announce it.. Joy in life comes from expressing ourselves, in taking risks and jumping in. Everyone is not going to like you. But you can like who you like.

Matthews, Andrew

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

26.

As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices, by making the most of the talents we've been given.

Retton, Mary Lou

27.

Choice strengthens all.

Prescot, Neal

28.

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

Epictetus

29.

No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.

Glasgow, Ellen

30.

Whenever I have to choose between two evils, I always like to try the one I haven't tried before.

West, Mae

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Edwards, Tryon

34.

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

35.

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

Sirtis, Marina

36.

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

37.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

38.

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

39.

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

Erickson, Marian

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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.

43.

It is always your next move.

Hill, Napoleon

44.

We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Johnson, Philip

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Riley, Pat

48.

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

49.

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

Robbins, Anthony

50.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline