Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

Best Quotes about Choice

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

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Wister, Owen

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

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

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

Brown, Les

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

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.

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

Saying, Zen

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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

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

Thomas, David

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Choice strengthens all.

Prescot, Neal

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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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No one ever went broke by saying no too often.

Mackay, Harvey

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

Kelley, David

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

Riley, Pat

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The first thing I do in the morning is to make my bed and while I am making up my bed I am making up my mind as to what kind of a day I am going to have.

Frost, Robert

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?

Wilder, Thornton

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

Erickson, Marian

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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Every choice you make has an end result.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Walpole, Horace

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

Bible

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

Sirtis, Marina

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We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Johnson, Philip

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

Fixx, James

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

Epictetus

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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

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

Horton, Doug

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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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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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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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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

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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