Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

- Fixx, James

Best Quotes about Choice

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

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

Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.

Bach, Richard

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

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

It is always your next move.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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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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

11.

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

Sirtis, Marina

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A human being is a deciding being.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

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

Wilder, Thornton

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Our generation, like the one before us, must choose. Without the threat of the Cold War, without the pain of economic ruin, without the fresh memory of World War II's slaughter, it is tempting to pursue our private agendas -- to simply sit back and let history unfold. We must resist the temptation.

Clinton, Bill

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Choice strengthens all.

Prescot, Neal

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

21.

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

James, William

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

Garcia, Jerry

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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

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

Bible

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Brown, Les

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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 can't choose up sides on a round world.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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

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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

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

Bible

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.

A Course In Miracles

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

Riley, Pat

40.

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

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

Wister, Owen

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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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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

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

Fixx, James

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

Thomas, David

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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.