Motivational Quotes

Choice

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

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Choice

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Wister, Owen

I like to be a free spirit. Some don't like that, but that's the way I am.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

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

Saying, Zen

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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.

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

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

Walpole, Horace

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It is always your next move.

Hill, Napoleon

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Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.

Bach, Richard

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

West, Mae

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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.

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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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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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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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There has never been another you. With no effort on your part you were born to be something very special and set apart. What you are going to do in appreciation of that gift is a decision only you can make.

Zadra, Dan

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

Bible

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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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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

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

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We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Johnson, Philip

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

Armesto, Raul

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

Garcia, Jerry

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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

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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

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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.

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Choose your love, Love your choice.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Kelley, David

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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

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

Horton, Doug

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

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

Wilder, Thornton

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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

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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

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

English, Jon

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bhagavad Gita

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A human being is a deciding being.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Thomas, David

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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

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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

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

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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