Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

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Best Quotes about Choice

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

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

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

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

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

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

West, Mae

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

Wister, Owen

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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.

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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

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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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Choose your love, Love your choice.

Monson, Thomas S.

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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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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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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

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Thomas, David

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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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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

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

Thomas, David

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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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One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Fixx, James

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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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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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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

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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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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 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

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

Erickson, Marian

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

Bible

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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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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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Let us choose to believe something good can happen.

Kohe, J. Martin

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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

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Of all earthly creatures, humans alone have the power to choose.

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

Riley, Pat

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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