Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

- Cleaver, Eldridge

Best Quotes about Choice

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

Garcia, Jerry

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

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Edwards, Tryon

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

Boswell, James

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

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

Epictetus

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

Saying, Zen

Let us choose to believe something good can happen.

Kohe, J. Martin

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

Wilder, Thornton

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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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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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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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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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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

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

Robbins, Anthony

19.

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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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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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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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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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Seeing the light is a choice, not seeing the light is no choice.

Horton, Doug

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Armesto, Raul

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

Fixx, James

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Choose your love, Love your choice.

Monson, Thomas S.

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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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The perfect way is without difficulty, for it avoids picking and choosing. Only when you stop liking and disliking will all be clearly understood. Be not concerned with right or wrong, for the conflict between right and wrong is the sickness of the mind.

Seng-Ts'an

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

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

Wister, Owen

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Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

Allen, James

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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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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

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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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No one ever went broke by saying no too often.

Mackay, Harvey

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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