Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

- Erickson, Marian

Best Quotes about Choice

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

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

Sirtis, Marina

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

It is always your next move.

Hill, Napoleon

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.

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Erickson, Marian

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Let us choose to believe something good can happen.

Kohe, J. Martin

13.

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

14.

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

Dyer, Wayne

15.

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

Armesto, Raul

16.

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

Fixx, James

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.

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

James, William

19.

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.

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

21.

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

Saying, Zen

22.

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

23.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

24.

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

25.

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.

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

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

Bhagavad Gita

32.

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

Bible

33.

No one ever went broke by saying no too often.

Mackay, Harvey

34.

You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.

Schechter, Solomon

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Mencken, H. L.

39.

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

40.

You are now at a crossroads. This is your opportunity to make the most important decision you will ever make. Forget your past. Who are you now? Who have you decided you really are now? Don't think about who you have been. Who are you now? Who have you decided to become? Make this decision consciously. Make it carefully. Make it powerfully.

Robbins, Anthony

41.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

42.

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

Dyer, Wayne

43.

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

Epictetus

44.

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