Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Choice

The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences.

Saying, Zen

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

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Armesto, Raul

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

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

Even as a tortoise draws in its limbs, the wise can draw in their senses at will.

Bhagavad Gita

10.

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

Fixx, James

11.

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

Nightingale, Earl

12.

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

Walpole, Horace

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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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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

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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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Every choice you make has an end result.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Johnson, Philip

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

Brown, Les

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

Sirtis, Marina

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

Epictetus

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

Kelley, David

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You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose

Browne, Harry

28.

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

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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

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You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.

Schechter, Solomon

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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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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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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

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Choose your love, Love your choice.

Monson, Thomas S.

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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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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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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

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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

43.

I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.

A Course In Miracles

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It is always your next move.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Horton, Doug

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

Bible

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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.