Motivational Quotes

Choice

No one ever went broke by saying no too often.

- Mackay, Harvey

Best Quotes about Choice

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

Horton, Doug

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

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

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

Wilder, Thornton

Every choice you make has an end result.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Edwards, Tryon

A human being is a deciding being.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Boswell, James

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

10.

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

11.

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

Cleaver, Eldridge

12.

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

Mencken, H. L.

13.

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

Allen, James

14.

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.

15.

Let us choose to believe something good can happen.

Kohe, J. Martin

16.

It is your own convictions which compels you; that is, choice compels choice.

Epictetus

17.

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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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

19.

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

20.

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

Erickson, Marian

21.

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.

22.

Choose your love, Love your choice.

Monson, Thomas S.

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Thomas, David

28.

You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.

Schechter, Solomon

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

32.

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

33.

Choice strengthens all.

Prescot, Neal

34.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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.

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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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

39.

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

Garcia, Jerry

40.

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

Wister, Owen

41.

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

42.

Each person designs his own life, freedom gives him the power to carry out his own designs, and power gives the freedom to interfere with the designs of others.

Berne, Eric

43.

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

James, William

44.

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

Thomas, David

45.

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.

46.

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.

47.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The highest order of mind is accused of folly, as well as the lowest. Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.

Pascal, Blaise

49.

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

50.

It is always your next move.

Hill, Napoleon