Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

- Dyer, Wayne

Best Quotes about Choice

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

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

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

Buscaglia, Leo

Choose your love, Love your choice.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

It is always your next move.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Dyer, Wayne

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Brown, Les

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

Bible

22.

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

James, William

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

Cleaver, Eldridge

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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

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

Edwards, Tryon

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

Kelley, David

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

Wister, Owen

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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

30.

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

Saying, Zen

31.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Thomas, David

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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

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

Barnes, Sondra Anice

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

Fixx, James

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Let us choose to believe something good can happen.

Kohe, J. Martin

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

Epictetus

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

Bhagavad Gita

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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