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

No one ever went broke by saying no too often.

Mackay, Harvey

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

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

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

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Dyer, Wayne

The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs. Self-conceit often regards it as a sign of weakness to admit that a belief to which we have once committed ourselves is wrong. We get so identified with an idea that it is literally a pet notion and we rise to its defense and stop our eyes and ears to anything different.

Dewey, John

10.

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

11.

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

Wister, Owen

13.

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

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

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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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If there are things you don't like in the world you grew up in, make your own life different.

Thomas, David

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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

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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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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

20.

It is always your next move.

Hill, Napoleon

21.

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

Barnes, Sondra Anice

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

29.

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

30.

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

Walpole, Horace

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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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

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

Brown, Les

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

English, Jon

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We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Johnson, Philip

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

Sirtis, Marina

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We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road -- the one less traveled by -- offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.

Carson, Rachel

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

James, William

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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.

42.

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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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

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You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.

Schechter, Solomon

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

Bible

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You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.

Chopra, Deepak

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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.

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

Erickson, Marian

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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