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

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

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

No one ever went broke by saying no too often.

Mackay, Harvey

Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.

Carpenter, Liz

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

Kelley, David

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

Waitley, Denis

Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.

Walpole, Horace

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

English, Jon

10.

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

Cleaver, Eldridge

11.

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

Waitley, Denis

12.

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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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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I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.

A Course In Miracles

15.

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

Barnes, Sondra Anice

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

Bible

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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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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

19.

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

Wister, Owen

20.

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

Riley, Pat

21.

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

27.

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

28.

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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Every choice you make has an end result.

Ziglar, Zig

30.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Bible

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You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.

Schechter, Solomon

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

Saying, Zen

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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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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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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We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.

Robbins, Anthony

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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.

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I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.

Boswell, James

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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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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