Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

- Erickson, Marian

Best Quotes about Choice

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

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

Erickson, Marian

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

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

Boswell, James

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

West, Mae

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

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

Kelley, David

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

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

Nightingale, Earl

10.

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

Dyer, Wayne

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

17.

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

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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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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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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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I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.

A Course In Miracles

22.

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

Dyer, Wayne

23.

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

24.

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

25.

You can choose to be lazy or you can choose to be ambitious. Stop to think about it again. Don't you do your own choosing?

Kohe, J. Martin

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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

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

Walpole, Horace

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Riley, Pat

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Let us choose to believe something good can happen.

Kohe, J. Martin

33.

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

Bible

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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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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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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

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

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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

46.

Choose your love, Love your choice.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Wilder, Thornton

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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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It is always your next move.

Hill, Napoleon

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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.