Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Choice

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

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

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

Erickson, Marian

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.

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

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Thomas, David

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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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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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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Choice strengthens all.

Prescot, Neal

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

Saying, Zen

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

Bhagavad Gita

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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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When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that in itself is a choice.

James, William

18.

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

Edwards, Tryon

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

Fixx, James

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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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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

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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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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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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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Choose your love, Love your choice.

Monson, Thomas S.

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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

27.

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

28.

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

Cleaver, Eldridge

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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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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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The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs. Self-conceit often regards it as a sign of weakness to admit that a belief to which we have once committed ourselves is wrong. We get so identified with an idea that it is literally a pet notion and we rise to its defense and stop our eyes and ears to anything different.

Dewey, John

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

Walpole, Horace

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

Kelley, David

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

Epictetus

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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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You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.

Schechter, Solomon

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Every choice you make has an end result.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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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.

50.

Let us choose to believe something good can happen.

Kohe, J. Martin