Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

Best Quotes about Choice

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

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

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

For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?

Wilder, Thornton

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

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

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

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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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

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

Wister, Owen

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

Horton, Doug

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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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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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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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Choice strengthens all.

Prescot, Neal

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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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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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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

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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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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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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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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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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.

28.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

30.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Edwards, Tryon

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

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We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Johnson, Philip

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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 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

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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.

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No one ever went broke by saying no too often.

Mackay, Harvey

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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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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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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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Let us choose to believe something good can happen.

Kohe, J. Martin

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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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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A human being is a deciding being.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Fixx, James

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