Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

- Dyer, Wayne

Best Quotes about Choice

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

Wilder, Thornton

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

Wister, Owen

We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Johnson, Philip

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

Glasgow, Ellen

Every choice you make has an end result.

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

10.

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

West, Mae

11.

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

12.

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

Sirtis, Marina

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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

14.

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

Epictetus

15.

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

Bible

16.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

17.

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

Walpole, Horace

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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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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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Choice strengthens all.

Prescot, Neal

23.

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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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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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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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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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

28.

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

Kelley, David

29.

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

Mencken, H. L.

30.

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

31.

You are the person who has to decide. Whether you'll do it or toss it aside; You are the person who makes up your mind. Whether you'll lead or will linger behind. Whether you'll try for the goal that's afar. Or just be contented to stay where you are.

Guest, Edgar A.

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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

33.

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

34.

No one ever went broke by saying no too often.

Mackay, Harvey

35.

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

English, Jon

36.

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

38.

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

Nightingale, Earl

40.

Let us choose to believe something good can happen.

Kohe, J. Martin

41.

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

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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

43.

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

Barnes, Sondra Anice

44.

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

Bhagavad Gita

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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

46.

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

Saying, Zen

47.

A human being is a deciding being.

Frankl, Viktor E.

48.

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

49.

Everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedom -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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.