Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

- Thomas, David

Best Quotes about Choice

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

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Garcia, Jerry

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

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.

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

Thomas, David

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

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

Edwards, Tryon

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

10.

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

11.

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

Boswell, James

12.

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

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

Bible

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

Epictetus

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

Riley, Pat

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

Kelley, David

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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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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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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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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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We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.

Robbins, Anthony

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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

23.

It is always your next move.

Hill, Napoleon

24.

We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Johnson, Philip

25.

I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.

A Course In Miracles

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

Bible

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Choice strengthens all.

Prescot, Neal

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

West, Mae

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

Erickson, Marian

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

English, Jon

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A human being is a deciding being.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Mencken, H. L.

38.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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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

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

Wister, Owen

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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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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.

49.

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

Horton, Doug

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

Bhagavad Gita