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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

Bible

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

What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

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

Wister, Owen

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

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

10.

It is always your next move.

Hill, Napoleon

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Barnes, Sondra Anice

15.

Choice strengthens all.

Prescot, Neal

16.

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

17.

We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Johnson, Philip

18.

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

19.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

20.

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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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

22.

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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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

24.

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

Edwards, Tryon

25.

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

James, William

26.

You can't choose up sides on a round world.

Dyer, Wayne

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Boswell, James

30.

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

West, Mae

31.

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

32.

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.

33.

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

Bhagavad Gita

34.

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

35.

A human being is a deciding being.

Frankl, Viktor E.

36.

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

Riley, Pat

37.

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

38.

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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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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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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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.

42.

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

43.

I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.

A Course In Miracles

44.

Choose your love, Love your choice.

Monson, Thomas S.

45.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.

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

47.

No one ever went broke by saying no too often.

Mackay, Harvey

48.

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

Brown, Les

49.

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

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Every choice you make has an end result.

Ziglar, Zig