Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

- Kelley, David

Best Quotes about Choice

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

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

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

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

I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.

A Course In Miracles

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

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

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

10.

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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

17.

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

Sirtis, Marina

18.

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

Edwards, Tryon

19.

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

Riley, Pat

20.

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

Walpole, Horace

21.

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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You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.

Schechter, Solomon

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

Wister, Owen

25.

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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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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Every choice you make has an end result.

Ziglar, Zig

28.

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

Erickson, Marian

29.

It is always your next move.

Hill, Napoleon

30.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

31.

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

Waitley, Denis

32.

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

Dyer, Wayne

33.

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

English, Jon

34.

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

Mencken, H. L.

35.

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

Kelley, David

36.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

37.

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Bible

39.

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

Barnes, Sondra Anice

40.

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

41.

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

Thomas, David

42.

Let us choose to believe something good can happen.

Kohe, J. Martin

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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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Choose your love, Love your choice.

Monson, Thomas S.

45.

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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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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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

48.

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.

49.

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

Waitley, Denis

50.

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

Boswell, James