Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

- Garcia, Jerry

Best Quotes about Choice

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

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

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

Thomas, David

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

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

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

Walpole, Horace

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

A human being is a deciding being.

Frankl, Viktor E.

10.

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

11.

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

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

Cleaver, Eldridge

18.

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

19.

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

Edwards, Tryon

20.

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

Wilder, Thornton

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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

22.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Bible

24.

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Epictetus

29.

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

Sirtis, Marina

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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

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

Garcia, Jerry

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

Barnes, Sondra Anice

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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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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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Seeing the light is a choice, not seeing the light is no choice.

Horton, Doug

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It is always your next move.

Hill, Napoleon

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I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.

A Course In Miracles

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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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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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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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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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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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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

45.

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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Let us choose to believe something good can happen.

Kohe, J. Martin

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

Kelley, David

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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.