Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

- Boswell, James

Best Quotes about Choice

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

English, Jon

It is always your next move.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Fixx, James

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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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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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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Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Wilder, Thornton

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

Riley, Pat

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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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I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.

A Course In Miracles

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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 and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Wister, Owen

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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.

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

Sirtis, Marina

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Garcia, Jerry

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

Horton, Doug

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

Dyer, Wayne

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We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Johnson, Philip

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

Saying, Zen

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

Walpole, Horace

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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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No one ever went broke by saying no too often.

Mackay, Harvey

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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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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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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