Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

- Epictetus

Best Quotes about Choice

If there are things you don't like in the world you grew up in, make your own life different.

Thomas, David

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

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

Nightingale, Earl

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

Waitley, Denis

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

Robbins, Anthony

A human being is a deciding being.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

Every choice you make has an end result.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Erickson, Marian

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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.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Fixx, James

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Brown, Les

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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

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You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.

Schechter, Solomon

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We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road -- the one less traveled by -- offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.

Carson, Rachel

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

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

James, William

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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.

Garcia, Jerry

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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.

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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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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

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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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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 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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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

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

Walpole, Horace

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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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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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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

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Let us choose to believe something good can happen.

Kohe, J. Martin

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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

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Choose your love, Love your choice.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

West, Mae

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Horton, Doug

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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

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It is always your next move.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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

Dyer, Wayne