Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

Best Quotes about Choice

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

Riley, Pat

Inhabit ourselves that we may indeed do what we want to do.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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.

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

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

West, Mae

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

Saying, Zen

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

Waitley, Denis

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 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

10.

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

11.

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

Bible

14.

Let us choose to believe something good can happen.

Kohe, J. Martin

15.

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

16.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

It is always your next move.

Hill, Napoleon

22.

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

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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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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

25.

He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

26.

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

Bhagavad Gita

27.

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

28.

I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.

A Course In Miracles

29.

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

Horton, Doug

30.

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

31.

You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.

Schechter, Solomon

32.

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

33.

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

Fixx, James

34.

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

Sirtis, Marina

35.

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

36.

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

Dyer, Wayne

37.

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.

38.

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

Boswell, James

39.

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

Kelley, David

40.

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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The perfect way is without difficulty, for it avoids picking and choosing. Only when you stop liking and disliking will all be clearly understood. Be not concerned with right or wrong, for the conflict between right and wrong is the sickness of the mind.

Seng-Ts'an

42.

Choice strengthens all.

Prescot, Neal

43.

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

Edwards, Tryon

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Barnes, Sondra Anice

47.

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

48.

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

Walpole, Horace

49.

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

Waitley, Denis

50.

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