Motivational Quotes

Choice

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

- Allen, James

Best Quotes about Choice

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

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

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

Fixx, James

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

Brown, Les

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

Epictetus

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

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

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

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Sirtis, Marina

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

Bible

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

Barnes, Sondra Anice

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You must give up the way it is... to have it the way you want it

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Everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedom -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Wilder, Thornton

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

Horton, Doug

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

Bible

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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

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

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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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A human being is a deciding being.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Kelley, David

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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.

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No one ever went broke by saying no too often.

Mackay, Harvey

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It is always your next move.

Hill, Napoleon

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As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices, by making the most of the talents we've been given.

Retton, Mary Lou