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

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

Fixx, James

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Barnes, Sondra Anice

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

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

Brown, Les

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

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

Boswell, James

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

Kelley, David

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.

10.

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

Mencken, H. L.

11.

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.

12.

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

Erickson, Marian

13.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

14.

I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.

A Course In Miracles

15.

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

16.

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

Dyer, Wayne

17.

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

18.

No one ever went broke by saying no too often.

Mackay, Harvey

19.

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.

20.

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

Bible

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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.

25.

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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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.

27.

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

Garcia, Jerry

28.

Every choice moves us closer to or farther away from something. Where are your choices taking your life? What do your behaviors demonstrate that you are saying yes or no to in life?

Allenbaugh, Eric

29.

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.

30.

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

James, William

31.

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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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

33.

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

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

35.

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

36.

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

Thomas, David

37.

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

Dyer, Wayne

38.

You can lay down and die, or you can get up and fight, but that's it -- there's no turning back.

English, Jon

39.

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

40.

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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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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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

43.

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

Dyer, Wayne

44.

I like to be a free spirit. Some don't like that, but that's the way I am.

Diana, Princess of Wales

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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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You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.

Schechter, Solomon

50.

We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Johnson, Philip