Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

Best Quotes about Choice

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

Choose your love, Love your choice.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Barnes, Sondra Anice

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

Riley, Pat

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

Thomas, David

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

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

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

English, Jon

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

10.

I am not a sound bite person. I prefer to run at the mouth.

Sirtis, Marina

11.

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

12.

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.

13.

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

Epictetus

14.

When we acknowledge that all of life is sacred and that each act is an act of choice and therefore sacred, then life is a sacred dance lived consciously each moment. When we live at this level, we participate in the creation of a better world. [The Circle is Sacred]

Lee, Scout Cloud

15.

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

Nightingale, Earl

16.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

17.

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

18.

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

Wister, Owen

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Garcia, Jerry

23.

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

Bhagavad Gita

24.

A human being is a deciding being.

Frankl, Viktor E.

25.

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

Wilder, Thornton

26.

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.

27.

Choice strengthens all.

Prescot, Neal

28.

It is always your next move.

Hill, Napoleon

29.

We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Johnson, Philip

30.

The world isn't interested in the storms you encountered, but whether or not you brought in the ship.

Armesto, Raul

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Every choice you make has an end result.

Ziglar, Zig

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

37.

You must give up the way it is... to have it the way you want it

38.

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

Fixx, James

39.

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

James, William

40.

There are always two choices. Two paths to take. One is easy. And its only reward is that it's easy.

41.

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

42.

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

Erickson, Marian

43.

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

Waitley, Denis

44.

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

Edwards, Tryon

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Bible

48.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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.

I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.

A Course In Miracles