Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

Best Quotes about Choice

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

Edwards, Tryon

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

Choice strengthens all.

Prescot, Neal

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

Thomas, David

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

Brown, Les

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.

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

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

Sirtis, Marina

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

10.

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

Saying, Zen

11.

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

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Riley, Pat

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You see, it's never the environment; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events -- how we interpret them -- that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Fixx, James

18.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Garcia, Jerry

20.

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

English, Jon

21.

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

22.

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

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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

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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

25.

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

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

28.

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

Wister, Owen

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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.

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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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Let us choose to believe something good can happen.

Kohe, J. Martin

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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

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

Barnes, Sondra Anice

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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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Choose your love, Love your choice.

Monson, Thomas S.

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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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We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Johnson, Philip

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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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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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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

45.

It is always your next move.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

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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 can't choose up sides on a round world.

Dyer, Wayne