Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Choice

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

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

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

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

Wilder, Thornton

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

Riley, Pat

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

West, Mae

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.

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

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

10.

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

Walpole, Horace

11.

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

12.

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 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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I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.

A Course In Miracles

15.

Choose your love, Love your choice.

Monson, Thomas S.

16.

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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You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don't find easy, or learn an awful lot very fast which is what I tried to do.

Fonda, Jane

18.

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

Wister, Owen

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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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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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

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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.

25.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

26.

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.

27.

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.

28.

It is always your next move.

Hill, Napoleon

29.

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

Horton, Doug

30.

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

31.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

32.

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

Bible

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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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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

37.

No one ever went broke by saying no too often.

Mackay, Harvey

38.

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

Waitley, Denis

40.

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

Epictetus

41.

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

42.

Even as a tortoise draws in its limbs, the wise can draw in their senses at will.

Bhagavad Gita

43.

The world isn't interested in the storms you encountered, but whether or not you brought in the ship.

Armesto, Raul

44.

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

English, Jon

45.

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

Waitley, Denis

46.

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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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

48.

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

49.

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

Cleaver, Eldridge

50.

Choice strengthens all.

Prescot, Neal