Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

Best Quotes about Choice

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

Armesto, Raul

A human being is a deciding being.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Epictetus

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

Wister, Owen

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.

Every choice you make has an end result.

Ziglar, Zig

I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.

A Course In Miracles

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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.

17.

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

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.

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

20.

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

West, Mae

21.

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

Nightingale, Earl

22.

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

Dyer, Wayne

23.

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

Bible

24.

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

Bible

25.

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

Erickson, Marian

26.

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

27.

You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.

Schechter, Solomon

28.

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

Kelley, David

29.

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

Bhagavad Gita

30.

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

31.

No one ever went broke by saying no too often.

Mackay, Harvey

32.

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

33.

Choose your love, Love your choice.

Monson, Thomas S.

34.

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

35.

Let us choose to believe something good can happen.

Kohe, J. Martin

36.

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

Garcia, Jerry

37.

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

38.

I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.

Boswell, James

39.

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

Waitley, Denis

40.

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

Thomas, David

41.

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

Walpole, Horace

42.

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

43.

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

Mencken, H. L.

44.

Thus we see that the all important thing is not killing or giving life, drinking or not drinking, living in the town or the country, being unlucky or lucky, winning or losing. It is how we win, how we lose, how we live or die, finally, how we choose.

Blyth, R. H.

45.

We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Johnson, Philip

46.

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

47.

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

Barnes, Sondra Anice

48.

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

Robbins, Anthony

49.

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

50.

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