Motivational Quotes

Choice

He that cannot decidedly say, No, when tempted to evil, is on the highway to ruin. He loses the respect even of those who would tempt him, and becomes but the pliant tool and victim of their evil designs.

- Hawes, Joel

Best Quotes about Choice

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

Wister, Owen

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

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

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

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

Thomas, David

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

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

It is always your next move.

Hill, Napoleon

10.

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

Cleaver, Eldridge

11.

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

12.

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

Epictetus

13.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

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

15.

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

16.

If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free,cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are...

Stevens, Cat

17.

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

Dyer, Wayne

18.

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.

19.

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

20.

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

21.

You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self. Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. You're always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

22.

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

Saying, Zen

23.

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

24.

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

Fixx, James

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Garcia, Jerry

29.

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

30.

The world isn't interested in the storms you encountered, but whether or not you brought in the ship.

Armesto, Raul

31.

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

32.

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

Barnes, Sondra Anice

33.

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

Edwards, Tryon

34.

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

Bible

35.

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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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

37.

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

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

Bible

39.

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

Riley, Pat

40.

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

41.

A human being is a deciding being.

Frankl, Viktor E.

42.

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

West, Mae

43.

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

Dyer, Wayne

44.

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

Walpole, Horace

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Bhagavad Gita

48.

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

Dyer, Wayne

49.

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

Waitley, Denis

50.

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