Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

- Dyer, Wayne

Best Quotes about Choice

We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road -- the one less traveled by -- offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.

Carson, Rachel

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

Dyer, Wayne

What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Fixx, James

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

Thomas, David

We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

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

10.

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.

11.

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

Sirtis, Marina

12.

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

Robbins, Anthony

13.

We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Johnson, Philip

14.

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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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

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Wister, Owen

21.

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

22.

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

Barnes, Sondra Anice

25.

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

Garcia, Jerry

27.

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

Riley, Pat

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

Dyer, Wayne

30.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

31.

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

West, Mae

32.

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

Saying, Zen

33.

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

34.

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

Wilder, Thornton

35.

Every choice you make has an end result.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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

38.

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

Walpole, Horace

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

Bible

40.

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

Dyer, Wayne

44.

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

Erickson, Marian

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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

49.

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

Edwards, Tryon

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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.