Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

- Edwards, Tryon

Best Quotes about Choice

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

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Sirtis, Marina

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

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

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

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

Erickson, Marian

10.

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

11.

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

12.

When a defining moment comes along, you can do one of two things. Define the moment, or let the moment define you.

Movie, Tin Cup

13.

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.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

15.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

16.

Choice strengthens all.

Prescot, Neal

17.

Every choice you make has an end result.

Ziglar, Zig

18.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

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I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.

A Course In Miracles

21.

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.

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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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

24.

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

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

Epictetus

28.

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

29.

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

31.

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

Boswell, James

32.

You can choose to be lazy or you can choose to be ambitious. Stop to think about it again. Don't you do your own choosing?

Kohe, J. Martin

33.

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

Dyer, Wayne

34.

Choose your love, Love your choice.

Monson, Thomas S.

35.

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

Wister, Owen

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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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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

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

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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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

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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

44.

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

45.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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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

50.

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

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