Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Choice

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

Barnes, Sondra Anice

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

Choice strengthens all.

Prescot, Neal

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

Bible

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Riley, Pat

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

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

Garcia, Jerry

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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

11.

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

Wister, Owen

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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

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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

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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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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

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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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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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A human being is a deciding being.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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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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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 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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You are everything that is, your thoughts, your life, your dreams come true. You are everything you choose to be. You are as unlimited as the endless universe.

Helmstetter, Shad

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

Edwards, Tryon

25.

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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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

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

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

Thomas, David

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

Brown, Les

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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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I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.

A Course In Miracles

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The perfect way is without difficulty, for it avoids picking and choosing. Only when you stop liking and disliking will all be clearly understood. Be not concerned with right or wrong, for the conflict between right and wrong is the sickness of the mind.

Seng-Ts'an

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

Epictetus

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Wilder, Thornton

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Every choice you make has an end result.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Fixx, James

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We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Johnson, Philip

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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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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 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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Erickson, Marian

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

Horton, Doug

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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