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

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

Bible

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

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

Barnes, Sondra Anice

People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be -- whether they will admit that or not.

Nightingale, Earl

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

Choose your love, Love your choice.

Monson, Thomas S.

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.

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

10.

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

Wilder, Thornton

11.

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

Epictetus

12.

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.

13.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

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

Thomas, David

15.

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

16.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

17.

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

Fixx, James

18.

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

Robbins, Anthony

19.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

20.

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

21.

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

22.

We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Johnson, Philip

23.

No one ever went broke by saying no too often.

Mackay, Harvey

24.

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

Sirtis, Marina

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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.

28.

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

Armesto, Raul

29.

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

Waitley, Denis

30.

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

31.

It is always your next move.

Hill, Napoleon

32.

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

Brown, Les

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Kelley, David

36.

The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs. Self-conceit often regards it as a sign of weakness to admit that a belief to which we have once committed ourselves is wrong. We get so identified with an idea that it is literally a pet notion and we rise to its defense and stop our eyes and ears to anything different.

Dewey, John

37.

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

38.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

39.

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

40.

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

Riley, Pat

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Cleaver, Eldridge

47.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

48.

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

Boswell, James

49.

You are now at a crossroads. This is your opportunity to make the most important decision you will ever make. Forget your past. Who are you now? Who have you decided you really are now? Don't think about who you have been. Who are you now? Who have you decided to become? Make this decision consciously. Make it carefully. Make it powerfully.

Robbins, Anthony

50.

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