Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

- Edwards, Tryon

Best Quotes about Choice

You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.

Schechter, Solomon

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

Wilder, Thornton

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

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

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

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Boswell, James

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

James, William

10.

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

Robbins, Anthony

11.

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

Edwards, Tryon

12.

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

Dyer, Wayne

13.

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

Bible

14.

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

15.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Let us choose to believe something good can happen.

Kohe, J. Martin

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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

18.

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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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.

20.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.

A Course In Miracles

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No one ever went broke by saying no too often.

Mackay, Harvey

23.

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

Fixx, James

24.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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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You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self. Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. You're always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

33.

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

Kelley, David

34.

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

35.

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

Horton, Doug

36.

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

Wister, Owen

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

Erickson, Marian

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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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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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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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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.

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

45.

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

Brown, Les

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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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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

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

Cleaver, Eldridge

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A human being is a deciding being.

Frankl, Viktor E.