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

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

Thomas, David

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

Garcia, Jerry

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

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

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

English, Jon

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Choice strengthens all.

Prescot, Neal

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

Wilder, Thornton

10.

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

Edwards, Tryon

11.

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

12.

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

Epictetus

13.

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

Dyer, Wayne

14.

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

15.

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

Dyer, Wayne

16.

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

Sirtis, Marina

17.

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

18.

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.

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.

It is always your next move.

Hill, Napoleon

21.

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

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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

23.

There is no shame in finding someone else to be attractive, or good company. Even if they don't like you, there is still no shame. If you happen to be fond of someone, and they're not fond of you, it's OK.. You don't have to wait and see if they'll love you back. You can announce it.. Joy in life comes from expressing ourselves, in taking risks and jumping in. Everyone is not going to like you. But you can like who you like.

Matthews, Andrew

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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

25.

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

Horton, Doug

26.

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

Armesto, Raul

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Waitley, Denis

31.

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

Bible

32.

Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.

Bach, Richard

33.

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

Saying, Zen

34.

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

Brown, Les

35.

We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road -- the one less traveled by -- offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.

Carson, Rachel

36.

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

Thomas, David

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Bhagavad Gita

40.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Bible

42.

We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Johnson, Philip

43.

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

Erickson, Marian

44.

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

45.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

46.

Let us choose to believe something good can happen.

Kohe, J. Martin

47.

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

48.

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.

49.

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

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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