Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

Best Quotes about Choice

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

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

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

Horton, Doug

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

Armesto, Raul

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

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

Bible

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

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

Wilder, Thornton

10.

Choose your love, Love your choice.

Monson, Thomas S.

11.

You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don't find easy, or learn an awful lot very fast which is what I tried to do.

Fonda, Jane

12.

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

Sirtis, Marina

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

Mencken, H. L.

14.

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

Garcia, Jerry

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

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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

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

Edwards, Tryon

18.

Every choice you make has an end result.

Ziglar, Zig

19.

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

Nightingale, Earl

20.

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

Dyer, Wayne

21.

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

22.

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.

23.

You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.

Schechter, Solomon

24.

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

Thomas, David

25.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

26.

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

27.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.

29.

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

Cleaver, Eldridge

30.

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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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

32.

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

33.

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

Riley, Pat

34.

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

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

Wister, Owen

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

West, Mae

38.

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

39.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

40.

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

Erickson, Marian

41.

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

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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

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

Thomas, David

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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.

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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

46.

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.

47.

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

Fixx, James

48.

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

49.

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

Kelley, David

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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