Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

Best Quotes about Choice

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

Saying, Zen

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

Thomas, David

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

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Wister, Owen

Watch what you choose to do. For instance, someone might want you to smoke. Never forget that I told you -- don't do it. Say no. That can of beer that somebody wants you to try, don't do it. Don't you ever do it. That drug that someone might want you to use, don't touch it. Stay away from it. It can destroy you.

Hinckley, Gordon B.

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

10.

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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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

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Waitley, Denis

15.

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

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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

17.

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.

18.

Whenever I have to choose between two evils, I always like to try the one I haven't tried before.

West, Mae

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

Bible

20.

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

21.

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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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 cannot be anything if you want to be everything.

Schechter, Solomon

24.

People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be -- whether they will admit that or not.

Nightingale, Earl

25.

A human being is a deciding being.

Frankl, Viktor E.

26.

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

Sirtis, Marina

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

Bible

28.

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

30.

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

Dyer, Wayne

31.

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

Brown, Les

32.

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

Erickson, Marian

33.

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

Horton, Doug

34.

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

Barnes, Sondra Anice

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To every man there openeth A way, and ways, and a way. And the high soul climbs the high way, And the low soul gropes the low: And in between, on the misty flats, The rest drift to and fro. But to every man there openeth A high way and a low, And every man decideth. The way his soul shall go.

Oxenham, John

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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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I like to be a free spirit. Some don't like that, but that's the way I am.

Diana, Princess of Wales

38.

Choose your love, Love your choice.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Cleaver, Eldridge

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Every choice you make has an end result.

Ziglar, Zig

41.

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 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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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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Choice strengthens all.

Prescot, Neal

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

James, William

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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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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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