Motivational Quotes

Choice

It is always your next move.

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Choice

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.

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

West, Mae

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Epictetus

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose

Browne, Harry

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

Fixx, James

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

14.

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

Thomas, David

15.

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

Waitley, Denis

16.

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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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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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.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Saying, Zen

26.

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

27.

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

Erickson, Marian

28.

You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.

Schechter, Solomon

29.

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

Bhagavad Gita

30.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

31.

I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.

A Course In Miracles

32.

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

33.

We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Johnson, Philip

34.

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

Garcia, Jerry

35.

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

Mencken, H. L.

36.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

37.

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.

38.

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

39.

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

Kelley, David

40.

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

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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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Cleaver, Eldridge

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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.

48.

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

Boswell, James

49.

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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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