Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

- Sirtis, Marina

Best Quotes about Choice

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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Garcia, Jerry

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

Dyer, Wayne

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 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

I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.

A Course In Miracles

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

Bible

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.

10.

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

Walpole, Horace

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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.

16.

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

Dyer, Wayne

17.

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

Erickson, Marian

18.

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

Wister, Owen

19.

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

Barnes, Sondra Anice

20.

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

James, William

21.

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

Waitley, Denis

22.

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

Sirtis, Marina

23.

We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Johnson, Philip

24.

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

25.

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

Boswell, James

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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

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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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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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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

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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

33.

Every choice you make has an end result.

Ziglar, Zig

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Riley, Pat

37.

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

Cleaver, Eldridge

38.

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

39.

No one ever went broke by saying no too often.

Mackay, Harvey

40.

A human being is a deciding being.

Frankl, Viktor E.

41.

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

42.

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

Edwards, Tryon

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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

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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

45.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

West, Mae

50.

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