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

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

It is always your next move.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

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

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

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

Walpole, Horace

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

James, William

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

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

Epictetus

11.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Riley, Pat

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Choice strengthens all.

Prescot, Neal

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A human being is a deciding being.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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

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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

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

Fixx, James

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

Saying, Zen

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

Bible

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

Wister, Owen

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The first thing I do in the morning is to make my bed and while I am making up my bed I am making up my mind as to what kind of a day I am going to have.

Frost, Robert

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

Erickson, Marian

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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

28.

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

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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

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

Waitley, Denis

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We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Johnson, Philip

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Choose your love, Love your choice.

Monson, Thomas S.

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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

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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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Every choice you make has an end result.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.

A Course In Miracles

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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

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

Kelley, David

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

Bhagavad Gita

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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

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

Barnes, Sondra Anice