Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

- Wilder, Thornton

Best Quotes about Choice

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Erickson, Marian

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.

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

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

Bible

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

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

Any person who recognizes this greatest power... the power to choose. Begins to realize that he is the one that is doing the choosing and that friends, although they mean well, cannot do his choosing for him, nor can his relatives. Consequently, he develops real self-confidence based upon his own ability, upon his own action, and upon his own initiative.

Kohe, J. Martin

If there are things you don't like in the world you grew up in, make your own life different.

Thomas, David

10.

Whenever I have to choose between two evils, I always like to try the one I haven't tried before.

West, Mae

11.

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

Epictetus

12.

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.

13.

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

Waitley, Denis

15.

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

Dyer, Wayne

16.

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

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Sirtis, Marina

20.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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 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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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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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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I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.

Boswell, James

28.

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

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

Brown, Les

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A human being is a deciding being.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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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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No one ever went broke by saying no too often.

Mackay, Harvey

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

Barnes, Sondra Anice

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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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Choose your love, Love your choice.

Monson, Thomas S.

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The more equally attractive two alternatives seem, the harder it can be to choose between them -- no matter that, to the same degree, the choice can only matter less.

Paradox, Edward Fredkin's

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

Bible

41.

Let us choose to believe something good can happen.

Kohe, J. Martin

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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

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

Saying, Zen

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Thomas, David

50.

We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Johnson, Philip