Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

Best Quotes about Choice

Let us choose to believe something good can happen.

Kohe, J. Martin

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

Wilder, Thornton

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

Everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedom -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

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

Every choice you make has an end result.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

Choose your love, Love your choice.

Monson, Thomas S.

10.

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

Saying, Zen

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Waitley, Denis

17.

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

18.

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

Sirtis, Marina

19.

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

20.

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.

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Mencken, H. L.

25.

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

26.

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

West, Mae

27.

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

28.

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

Thomas, David

29.

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

Kelley, David

30.

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

31.

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

32.

You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.

Schechter, Solomon

33.

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.

34.

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

35.

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

Robbins, Anthony

36.

A human being is a deciding being.

Frankl, Viktor E.

37.

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.

38.

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

39.

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.

40.

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

Riley, Pat

41.

No one ever went broke by saying no too often.

Mackay, Harvey

42.

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

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

Barnes, Sondra Anice

45.

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

Walpole, Horace

46.

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

Bhagavad Gita

47.

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

48.

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

Bible

49.

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

Thomas, David

50.

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

Epictetus