Motivational Quotes

Choice

Choose your love, Love your choice.

- Monson, Thomas S.

Best Quotes about Choice

I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.

A Course In Miracles

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

Waitley, Denis

It is always your next move.

Hill, Napoleon

A human being is a deciding being.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Thomas, David

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

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

Edwards, Tryon

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

Fixx, James

Choose your love, Love your choice.

Monson, Thomas S.

10.

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

11.

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

Robbins, Anthony

12.

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

13.

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

Bhagavad Gita

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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

15.

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

Cleaver, Eldridge

16.

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

Wister, Owen

17.

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

Walpole, Horace

18.

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

English, Jon

19.

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

Epictetus

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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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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

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

27.

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

28.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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.

We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Johnson, Philip

31.

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

32.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

33.

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

Erickson, Marian

34.

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

35.

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

36.

I like to be a free spirit. Some don't like that, but that's the way I am.

Diana, Princess of Wales

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Kelley, David

40.

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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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

42.

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.

43.

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

44.

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

Horton, Doug

45.

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

Garcia, Jerry

46.

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

47.

Anything inside that immobilizes me, gets in my way, keeps me from my goals, is all mine.

Dyer, Wayne

48.

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

Nightingale, Earl

49.

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

50.

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