Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

- Glasgow, Ellen

Best Quotes about Choice

We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Johnson, Philip

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

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

Fixx, James

No one ever went broke by saying no too often.

Mackay, Harvey

People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be -- whether they will admit that or not.

Nightingale, Earl

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that in itself is a choice.

James, William

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

10.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

11.

The more equally attractive two alternatives seem, the harder it can be to choose between them -- no matter that, to the same degree, the choice can only matter less.

Paradox, Edward Fredkin's

12.

The highest order of mind is accused of folly, as well as the lowest. Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.

Pascal, Blaise

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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.

21.

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

Horton, Doug

22.

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

Wilder, Thornton

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

Choice strengthens all.

Prescot, Neal

28.

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

Erickson, Marian

29.

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.

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Whenever I have to choose between two evils, I always like to try the one I haven't tried before.

West, Mae

33.

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

Kelley, David

34.

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

Dyer, Wayne

35.

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

36.

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

Edwards, Tryon

37.

Every choice you make has an end result.

Ziglar, Zig

38.

If there are things you don't like in the world you grew up in, make your own life different.

Thomas, David

39.

I like to be a free spirit. Some don't like that, but that's the way I am.

Diana, Princess of Wales

40.

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

Bible

41.

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

42.

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

Walpole, Horace

43.

A human being is a deciding being.

Frankl, Viktor E.

44.

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

Brown, Les

45.

To every man there openeth A way, and ways, and a way. And the high soul climbs the high way, And the low soul gropes the low: And in between, on the misty flats, The rest drift to and fro. But to every man there openeth A high way and a low, And every man decideth. The way his soul shall go.

Oxenham, John

46.

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.

47.

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

Epictetus

48.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

49.

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

50.

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