Motivational Quotes

Choice

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.

Best Quotes about Choice

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

Dyer, Wayne

Every choice you make has an end result.

Ziglar, Zig

You can do what you want to do. You can be what you want to be.

Thomas, David

The way to activate the seeds of your creation is by making choices about the results you want to create. When you make a choice, you activate vast human energies and resources, which otherwise go untapped. All too often people fail to focus their choices upon results and therefore their choices are ineffective. If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.

Fritz, Robert

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

Choice strengthens all.

Prescot, Neal

10.

Inhabit ourselves that we may indeed do what we want to do.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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

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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

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

Bible

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

17.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.

A Course In Miracles

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

Brown, Les

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

Epictetus

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

Saying, Zen

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I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

Marx, Groucho

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Johnson, Philip

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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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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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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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No one ever went broke by saying no too often.

Mackay, Harvey

35.

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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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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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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Let us choose to believe something good can happen.

Kohe, J. Martin

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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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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.

It is always your next move.

Hill, Napoleon

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

49.

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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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