Motivational Quotes

Choice

A human being is a deciding being.

- Frankl, Viktor E.

Best Quotes about Choice

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

Epictetus

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Garcia, Jerry

No one ever went broke by saying no too often.

Mackay, Harvey

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

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

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

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

A human being is a deciding being.

Frankl, Viktor E.

10.

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

West, Mae

11.

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

Edwards, Tryon

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Sirtis, Marina

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

You can do what you want to do. You can be what you want to be.

Thomas, David

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Saying, Zen

25.

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

Walpole, Horace

26.

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

Bible

27.

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

28.

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

Cleaver, Eldridge

29.

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

Riley, Pat

30.

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

31.

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

Erickson, Marian

32.

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

33.

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

James, William

34.

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

35.

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.

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Brown, Les

41.

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

42.

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

Dyer, Wayne

43.

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

Dyer, Wayne

44.

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

45.

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.

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

Bible

47.

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

Robbins, Anthony

48.

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

Thomas, David

49.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

50.

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.