Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

- West, Mae

Best Quotes about Choice

A human being is a deciding being.

Frankl, Viktor E.

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

Waitley, Denis

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

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

West, Mae

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

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

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

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

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

Bible

11.

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

12.

Every choice you make has an end result.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Edwards, Tryon

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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

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

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No one ever went broke by saying no too often.

Mackay, Harvey

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Let us choose to believe something good can happen.

Kohe, J. Martin

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

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

Walpole, Horace

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

Bible

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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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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

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

Wister, Owen

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Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

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

Garcia, Jerry

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Armesto, Raul

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

Riley, Pat

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

Bhagavad Gita

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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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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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We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Johnson, Philip

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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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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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In the choice between changing one's mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.