Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

- James, William

Best Quotes about Choice

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Wister, Owen

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Kelley, David

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

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

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

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Armesto, Raul

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

Wilder, Thornton

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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.

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

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It is always your next move.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Walpole, Horace

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A human being is a deciding being.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Edwards, Tryon

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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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You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.

Schechter, Solomon

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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.

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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

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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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

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

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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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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

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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

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

Horton, Doug

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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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We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Johnson, Philip

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No one ever went broke by saying no too often.

Mackay, Harvey

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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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

Barnes, Sondra Anice

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

Fixx, James

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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

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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