Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

Best Quotes about Choice

No one ever went broke by saying no too often.

Mackay, Harvey

It is always your next move.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Saying, Zen

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

Dyer, Wayne

No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

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.

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

Walpole, Horace

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

10.

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

11.

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

Epictetus

12.

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

Dyer, Wayne

13.

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

Mencken, H. L.

14.

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

Wister, Owen

15.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Erickson, Marian

21.

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 the person who has to decide. Whether you'll do it or toss it aside; You are the person who makes up your mind. Whether you'll lead or will linger behind. Whether you'll try for the goal that's afar. Or just be contented to stay where you are.

Guest, Edgar A.

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

Sirtis, Marina

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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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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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The highest order of mind is accused of folly, as well as the lowest. Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.

Pascal, Blaise

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I knew that I did not have to buy into society's notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to be happy. I was in charge of my spaceship and it was my up, my down. I could choose to see this situation as a setback or as a starting point. I chose to begin life again.

Mitchell, Warren

28.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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

30.

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

Armesto, Raul

31.

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road -- the one less traveled by -- offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.

Carson, Rachel

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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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We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Johnson, Philip

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

Bible

40.

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

Dyer, Wayne

43.

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

Thomas, David

44.

Choose your love, Love your choice.

Monson, Thomas S.

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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

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

Edwards, Tryon

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

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Fixx, James