Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

Best Quotes about Choice

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

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

West, Mae

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

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.

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

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

Sirtis, Marina

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

Wilder, Thornton

10.

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

Kelley, David

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Brown, Les

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.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Dyer, Wayne

18.

Choice strengthens all.

Prescot, Neal

19.

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

Cleaver, Eldridge

20.

Choose your love, Love your choice.

Monson, Thomas S.

21.

No one ever went broke by saying no too often.

Mackay, Harvey

22.

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.

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Thomas, David

26.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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.

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

Thomas, David

29.

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

30.

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

Fixx, James

31.

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

Walpole, Horace

32.

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

33.

A human being is a deciding being.

Frankl, Viktor E.

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

English, Jon

37.

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

38.

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.

39.

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

Garcia, Jerry

40.

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

41.

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

Armesto, Raul

42.

Any person who recognizes this greatest power... the power to choose. Begins to realize that he is the one that is doing the choosing and that friends, although they mean well, cannot do his choosing for him, nor can his relatives. Consequently, he develops real self-confidence based upon his own ability, upon his own action, and upon his own initiative.

Kohe, J. Martin

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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

44.

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

45.

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

Waitley, Denis

46.

I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.

A Course In Miracles

47.

It is always your next move.

Hill, Napoleon

48.

If this life be not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained... it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will.

James, William

49.

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

50.

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