Motivational Quotes

Choice

The first thing I do in the morning is to make my bed and while I am making up my bed I am making up my mind as to what kind of a day I am going to have.

- Frost, Robert

Best Quotes about Choice

The first thing I do in the morning is to make my bed and while I am making up my bed I am making up my mind as to what kind of a day I am going to have.

Frost, Robert

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Wister, Owen

You can lay down and die, or you can get up and fight, but that's it -- there's no turning back.

English, Jon

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.

Edwards, Tryon

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

Glasgow, Ellen

10.

A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.

Roddenberry, Gene

11.

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

12.

It is always your next move.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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.

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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

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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

18.

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

Saying, Zen

21.

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

22.

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

Bhagavad Gita

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No one ever went broke by saying no too often.

Mackay, Harvey

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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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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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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 can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.

A Course In Miracles

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

Buscaglia, Leo

30.

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

31.

Bright lights cast dark shadows when shone from only one direction.

Kelley, David

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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

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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 a defining moment comes along, you can do one of two things. Define the moment, or let the moment define you.

Movie, Tin Cup

35.

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

Erickson, Marian

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Choice strengthens all.

Prescot, Neal

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

Riley, Pat

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

44.

There has never been another you. With no effort on your part you were born to be something very special and set apart. What you are going to do in appreciation of that gift is a decision only you can make.

Zadra, Dan

45.

We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Johnson, Philip

46.

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

Thomas, David

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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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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

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You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.

Schechter, Solomon

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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