Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

Best Quotes about Choice

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.

A human being is a deciding being.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

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

Walpole, Horace

No one ever went broke by saying no too often.

Mackay, Harvey

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

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

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Bible

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

Edwards, Tryon

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

Erickson, Marian

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Choice strengthens all.

Prescot, Neal

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

Wilder, Thornton

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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

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

Thomas, David

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

Garcia, Jerry

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We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Johnson, Philip

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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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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

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

Epictetus

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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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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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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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You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don't find easy, or learn an awful lot very fast which is what I tried to do.

Fonda, Jane

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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 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 can't choose up sides on a round world.

Dyer, Wayne

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Every choice you make has an end result.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Sirtis, Marina

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It is always your next move.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Mencken, H. L.

43.

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

44.

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

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You are the person who has to decide. Whether you'll do it or toss it aside; You are the person who makes up your mind. Whether you'll lead or will linger behind. Whether you'll try for the goal that's afar. Or just be contented to stay where you are.

Guest, Edgar A.

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Choose your love, Love your choice.

Monson, Thomas S.

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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

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You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.

Schechter, Solomon

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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