Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Choice

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

Waitley, Denis

It is always your next move.

Hill, Napoleon

The perfect way is without difficulty, for it avoids picking and choosing. Only when you stop liking and disliking will all be clearly understood. Be not concerned with right or wrong, for the conflict between right and wrong is the sickness of the mind.

Seng-Ts'an

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

Walpole, Horace

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

Edwards, Tryon

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

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

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

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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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

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You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.

Schechter, Solomon

12.

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

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

Bhagavad Gita

14.

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

Sirtis, Marina

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

Saying, Zen

16.

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

17.

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.

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Riley, Pat

22.

We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Johnson, Philip

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Epictetus

25.

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

Fixx, James

26.

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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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

28.

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

30.

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

West, Mae

31.

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

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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

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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.

34.

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

Horton, Doug

35.

Let us choose to believe something good can happen.

Kohe, J. Martin

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

40.

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

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.

Mencken, H. L.

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

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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

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It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own choosing; when we do, the performance is itself the wage.

Hand, Learned

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

Erickson, Marian

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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

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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

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

Robbins, Anthony