Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

- Kelley, David

Best Quotes about Choice

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

Armesto, Raul

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

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

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Walpole, Horace

A human being is a deciding being.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

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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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

11.

Every choice you make has an end result.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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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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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

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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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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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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

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

Fixx, James

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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.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Edwards, Tryon

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

Garcia, Jerry

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

33.

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

Sirtis, Marina

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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

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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

36.

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

Barnes, Sondra Anice

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

Riley, Pat

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

41.

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

Bible

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Erickson, Marian

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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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You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.

Schechter, Solomon

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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