Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

- Saying, Zen

Best Quotes about Choice

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

Choice strengthens all.

Prescot, Neal

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

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

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Fixx, James

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

Every choice moves us closer to or farther away from something. Where are your choices taking your life? What do your behaviors demonstrate that you are saying yes or no to in life?

Allenbaugh, Eric

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

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

Bible

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

Wister, Owen

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

Erickson, Marian

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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

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

18.

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

19.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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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.

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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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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

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You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.

Schechter, Solomon

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In the choice between changing one's mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.

A Course In Miracles

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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

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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

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

Edwards, Tryon

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Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Walpole, Horace

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

James, William

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

Armesto, Raul

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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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Every choice you make has an end result.

Ziglar, Zig

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A human being is a deciding being.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Riley, Pat

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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

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

Brown, Les

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

Garcia, Jerry

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Thomas, David

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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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As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices, by making the most of the talents we've been given.

Retton, Mary Lou

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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