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

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

10.

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

Brown, Les

11.

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

Fixx, James

12.

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

13.

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

Garcia, Jerry

14.

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

15.

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

Thomas, David

16.

Watch what you choose to do. For instance, someone might want you to smoke. Never forget that I told you -- don't do it. Say no. That can of beer that somebody wants you to try, don't do it. Don't you ever do it. That drug that someone might want you to use, don't touch it. Stay away from it. It can destroy you.

Hinckley, Gordon B.

17.

It is always your next move.

Hill, Napoleon

18.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

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

Waitley, Denis

20.

We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Johnson, Philip

21.

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

Wister, Owen

22.

No one ever went broke by saying no too often.

Mackay, Harvey

23.

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

English, Jon

24.

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

Horton, Doug

25.

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

Kelley, David

26.

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

27.

Let us choose to believe something good can happen.

Kohe, J. Martin

28.

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

Dyer, Wayne

29.

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

30.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

31.

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

James, William

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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

33.

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

Cleaver, Eldridge

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Bhagavad Gita

37.

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

38.

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

Waitley, Denis

39.

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

Dyer, Wayne

40.

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

41.

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

42.

Choice strengthens all.

Prescot, Neal

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Walpole, Horace

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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.

48.

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.

49.

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

50.

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