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

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

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

Barnes, Sondra Anice

A human being is a deciding being.

Frankl, Viktor E.

We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

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

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

10.

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

Nightingale, Earl

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Mencken, H. L.

14.

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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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

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Watch what you choose to do. For instance, someone might want you to smoke. Never forget that I told you -- don't do it. Say no. That can of beer that somebody wants you to try, don't do it. Don't you ever do it. That drug that someone might want you to use, don't touch it. Stay away from it. It can destroy you.

Hinckley, Gordon B.

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Every choice you make has an end result.

Ziglar, Zig

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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

19.

I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.

A Course In Miracles

20.

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

Robbins, Anthony

21.

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

22.

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

Fixx, James

23.

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

Horton, Doug

24.

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

Cleaver, Eldridge

25.

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

Brown, Les

26.

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

Edwards, Tryon

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

Saying, Zen

29.

Anything inside that immobilizes me, gets in my way, keeps me from my goals, is all mine.

Dyer, Wayne

30.

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

31.

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

Wilder, Thornton

32.

Choose your love, Love your choice.

Monson, Thomas S.

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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.

34.

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

James, William

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

Dyer, Wayne

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No one ever went broke by saying no too often.

Mackay, Harvey

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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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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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You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.

Schechter, Solomon

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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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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

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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

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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

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

Wister, Owen