Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

Best Quotes about Choice

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

Horton, Doug

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

I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: Therefore choose life. [Deuteronomy 30:19]

Bible

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

Nightingale, Earl

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.

Dyer, Wayne

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

James, William

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Wilder, Thornton

13.

We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Johnson, Philip

14.

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

15.

The way to activate the seeds of your creation is by making choices about the results you want to create. When you make a choice, you activate vast human energies and resources, which otherwise go untapped. All too often people fail to focus their choices upon results and therefore their choices are ineffective. If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.

Fritz, Robert

16.

No one ever went broke by saying no too often.

Mackay, Harvey

17.

You are now at a crossroads. This is your opportunity to make the most important decision you will ever make. Forget your past. Who are you now? Who have you decided you really are now? Don't think about who you have been. Who are you now? Who have you decided to become? Make this decision consciously. Make it carefully. Make it powerfully.

Robbins, Anthony

18.

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

19.

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

Robbins, Anthony

20.

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

21.

I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.

A Course In Miracles

22.

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

Riley, Pat

23.

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

24.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

25.

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

Wister, Owen

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Fixx, James

29.

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

30.

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

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.

The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences.

Saying, Zen

33.

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

34.

Whenever I have to choose between two evils, I always like to try the one I haven't tried before.

West, Mae

35.

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

36.

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.

37.

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

Waitley, Denis

38.

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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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

40.

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

41.

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

Bible

42.

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

43.

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

Waitley, Denis

44.

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

Dyer, Wayne

45.

You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.

Chopra, Deepak

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Thomas, David

49.

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

50.

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.