Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

- Epictetus

Best Quotes about Choice

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

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.

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

Sirtis, Marina

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Glasgow, Ellen

Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it.

Riley, Pat

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

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

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

Armesto, Raul

10.

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

Brown, Les

11.

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.

12.

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

Erickson, Marian

13.

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

14.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

15.

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

Wister, Owen

16.

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

Dyer, Wayne

17.

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.

18.

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

19.

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

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To every man there openeth A way, and ways, and a way. And the high soul climbs the high way, And the low soul gropes the low: And in between, on the misty flats, The rest drift to and fro. But to every man there openeth A high way and a low, And every man decideth. The way his soul shall go.

Oxenham, John

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Let us choose to believe something good can happen.

Kohe, J. Martin

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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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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

24.

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

25.

Choice strengthens all.

Prescot, Neal

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Waitley, Denis

29.

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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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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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 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.

33.

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

Wilder, Thornton

34.

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

Dyer, Wayne

35.

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 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

37.

We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Johnson, Philip

38.

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

39.

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

Dyer, Wayne

40.

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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A human being is a deciding being.

Frankl, Viktor E.

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Bible

46.

It is always your next move.

Hill, Napoleon

47.

That guy just cut right in front of me. But I'm not going to let it bother me. No. I'm on my way to work and I decided it doesn't matter who wants to cut in front of my lane today. I'm not going to let it bother me one bit. Once I get to work, find myself a parking space, if somebody wants to jump ahead of me and take it, I'm going to let them.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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

49.

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

Saying, Zen

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

Walpole, Horace