Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

Best Quotes about Choice

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

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

We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Johnson, Philip

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

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.

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

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Walpole, Horace

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

10.

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

Sirtis, Marina

11.

The highest order of mind is accused of folly, as well as the lowest. Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.

Pascal, Blaise

12.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

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

Wilder, Thornton

14.

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

Horton, Doug

15.

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

16.

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.

17.

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

Brown, Les

18.

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

19.

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

Bible

20.

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

Waitley, Denis

21.

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

Epictetus

22.

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

Saying, Zen

23.

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

24.

You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.

Schechter, Solomon

25.

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.

26.

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

Riley, Pat

27.

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

28.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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

30.

Let us choose to believe something good can happen.

Kohe, J. Martin

31.

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

Edwards, Tryon

32.

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

Barnes, Sondra Anice

33.

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

34.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

35.

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

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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

37.

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

38.

It is always your next move.

Hill, Napoleon

39.

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

40.

A human being is a deciding being.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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

42.

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

43.

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

Dyer, Wayne

44.

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.

46.

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

Mencken, H. L.

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

50.

Choose your love, Love your choice.

Monson, Thomas S.