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

I like to be a free spirit. Some don't like that, but that's the way I am.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

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

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

Man?s power of choice enables him to think like an angel or a devil, a king or a slave. Whatever he chooses, mind will create and manifest.

Bailes, Frederick

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

Thomas, David

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

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Bible

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

10.

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

11.

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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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

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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

14.

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

15.

We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Johnson, Philip

16.

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

Bible

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

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

Walpole, Horace

20.

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

Edwards, Tryon

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

Bhagavad Gita

24.

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

Barnes, Sondra Anice

25.

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

Horton, Doug

26.

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

27.

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

Dyer, Wayne

28.

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.

Dyer, Wayne

29.

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

English, Jon

30.

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

Sirtis, Marina

31.

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

Kelley, David

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

Saying, Zen

33.

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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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.

35.

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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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

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

Nightingale, Earl

38.

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

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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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Let us choose to believe something good can happen.

Kohe, J. Martin

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

Garcia, Jerry

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

Fixx, James

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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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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

48.

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

49.

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

Waitley, Denis

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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