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

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

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Let us choose to believe something good can happen.

Kohe, J. Martin

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

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

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

Boswell, James

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

10.

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

Wilder, Thornton

11.

We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Johnson, Philip

12.

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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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

14.

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

Garcia, Jerry

15.

Choose your love, Love your choice.

Monson, Thomas S.

16.

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

Wister, Owen

17.

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

18.

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

19.

You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.

Schechter, Solomon

20.

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

21.

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

English, Jon

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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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You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self. Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. You're always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

24.

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

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Choice strengthens all.

Prescot, Neal

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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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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

28.

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

West, Mae

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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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

33.

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

Cleaver, Eldridge

34.

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

35.

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

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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

37.

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.

38.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.

A Course In Miracles

40.

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

Robbins, Anthony

41.

It is always your next move.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Dyer, Wayne

43.

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

Walpole, Horace

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Bible

46.

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

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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

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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

49.

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

James, William

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

Dyer, Wayne