Motivational Quotes

Choice

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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Best Quotes about Choice

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

Let us choose to believe something good can happen.

Kohe, J. Martin

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

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

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

Armesto, Raul

10.

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

11.

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

Thomas, David

12.

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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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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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

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.

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

Erickson, Marian

18.

Every choice you make has an end result.

Ziglar, Zig

19.

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

Bible

20.

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

English, Jon

21.

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

Kelley, David

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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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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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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

25.

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

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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

27.

You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.

Schechter, Solomon

28.

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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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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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

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

Thomas, David

33.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

34.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

35.

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

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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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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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.

41.

Choice strengthens all.

Prescot, Neal

42.

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

Cleaver, Eldridge

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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

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A human being is a deciding being.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Walpole, Horace

47.

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

Wilder, Thornton

48.

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

Edwards, Tryon

49.

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

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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