Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

Best Quotes about Choice

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

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

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 lay down and die, or you can get up and fight, but that's it -- there's no turning back.

English, Jon

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

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

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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

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

Wilder, Thornton

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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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Every choice you make has an end result.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self. Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. You're always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Bible

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

Epictetus

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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

30.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Saying, Zen

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

Dyer, Wayne

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We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Johnson, Philip

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

Horton, Doug

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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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If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free,cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are...

Stevens, Cat

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Riley, Pat

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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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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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Choose your love, Love your choice.

Monson, Thomas S.

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Zadra, Dan

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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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Let us choose to believe something good can happen.

Kohe, J. Martin

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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

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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

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

Edwards, Tryon