Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Choice

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

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Bible

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

A human being is a deciding being.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Let us choose to believe something good can happen.

Kohe, J. Martin

10.

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.

11.

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

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

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Horton, Doug

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You see, it's never the environment; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events -- how we interpret them -- that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Bible

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

Kelley, David

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

James, William

26.

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

Saying, Zen

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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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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

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We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us -- how we can take it, what we do with it -- and that is what really counts in the end. How to take the raw stuff of life and make it a thing of worth and beauty -- that is the test of living.

Newton, Joseph Fort

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Sirtis, Marina

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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.

Atwood, Margaret

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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

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

Garcia, Jerry

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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

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

Boswell, James

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I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.

A Course In Miracles

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

Epictetus

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

Erickson, Marian

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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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We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Johnson, Philip

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

Brown, Les

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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

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It is always your next move.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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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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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

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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