Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

- Sirtis, Marina

Best Quotes about 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

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

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

Boswell, James

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

Wilder, Thornton

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Epictetus

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

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

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

10.

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

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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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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

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

Barnes, Sondra Anice

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

Wister, Owen

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

Fixx, James

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

Horton, Doug

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

Dyer, Wayne

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There has never been another you. With no effort on your part you were born to be something very special and set apart. What you are going to do in appreciation of that gift is a decision only you can make.

Zadra, Dan

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

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

Bible

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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

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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

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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

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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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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.

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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

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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.

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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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No one ever went broke by saying no too often.

Mackay, Harvey

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You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.

Schechter, Solomon

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Brown, Les

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Sirtis, Marina

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A human being is a deciding being.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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

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I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.

A Course In Miracles

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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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Let us choose to believe something good can happen.

Kohe, J. Martin

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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