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 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

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

Erickson, Marian

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

Thomas, David

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

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

Garcia, Jerry

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

10.

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.

11.

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

Wister, Owen

12.

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

Armesto, Raul

13.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Edwards, Tryon

17.

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

18.

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.

19.

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

James, William

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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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No one ever went broke by saying no too often.

Mackay, Harvey

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

Bhagavad Gita

25.

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

Epictetus

26.

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

Horton, Doug

28.

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.

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

32.

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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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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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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Choice strengthens all.

Prescot, Neal

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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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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 cannot be anything if you want to be everything.

Schechter, Solomon

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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

41.

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

43.

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

Mencken, H. L.

44.

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

Cleaver, Eldridge

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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

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

Bible

49.

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

Walpole, Horace

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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