Motivational Quotes

Choice

It is the moment of evolutionary truth for the race, and what man does with that moment will be more important than the events of the previous millenium.

- Muses, Charles

Best Quotes about Choice

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

Horton, Doug

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

Bible

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

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

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

Wister, Owen

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

Thomas, David

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

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

Thomas, David

10.

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

Dyer, Wayne

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Waitley, Denis

15.

A human being is a deciding being.

Frankl, Viktor E.

16.

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

English, Jon

17.

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

18.

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

Epictetus

19.

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

20.

Every choice you make has an end result.

Ziglar, Zig

21.

It is always your next move.

Hill, Napoleon

22.

That guy just cut right in front of me. But I'm not going to let it bother me. No. I'm on my way to work and I decided it doesn't matter who wants to cut in front of my lane today. I'm not going to let it bother me one bit. Once I get to work, find myself a parking space, if somebody wants to jump ahead of me and take it, I'm going to let them.

Winfrey, Oprah

23.

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

Bhagavad Gita

24.

Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.

Brown, Les

25.

We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Johnson, Philip

26.

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

27.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.

A Course In Miracles

29.

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

Fixx, James

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

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

Barnes, Sondra Anice

35.

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

Edwards, Tryon

36.

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

Wilder, Thornton

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

Robbins, Anthony

39.

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

40.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

41.

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

Kelley, David

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You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.

Schechter, Solomon

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Let us choose to believe something good can happen.

Kohe, J. Martin

44.

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

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

Erickson, Marian

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We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.

Robbins, Anthony

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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.

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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

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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