Choice Quotes
I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.Choice
A Course In Miracles
Course on Forgiveness Based on Christianity Eastern Philosophy
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.
Choice
Allen, James
1864-1912 British-born American Essayist Author of As a Man Thinketh
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?
Choice
Allenbaugh, Eric
American Author of Wake-Up Calls
The world isn t interested in the storms you encountered, but whether or not you brought in the ship.
Choice
Armesto, Raul
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.
Choice
Atwood, Margaret
1939 Canadian Novelist Poet Critic
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.
Choice
Bach, Richard
1936 American Author
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Choice
Bacon, Francis
1561-1626 British Philosopher Essayist Statesman
Man’s power of choice enables him to think like an angel or a devil, a king or a slave. Whatever he chooses, mind will create and manifest.
Choice
Bailes, Frederick
It s so hard when I have to, And so easy when I want to.
Choice
Barnes, Sondra Anice
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.
Choice
Berne, Eric
1910-1970 Canadian Psychiatrist Writer
Even as a tortoise draws in its limbs, the wise can draw in their senses at will.
Choice
Bhagavad Gita
c BC 400 Sanskrit Poem Incorporated Into the Mahabharata
Refuse the evil, and choose the good. [Isaiah 7:15]
Choice
Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: Therefore choose life. [Deuteronomy 30:19]
Choice
Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Thus we see that the all important thing is not killing or giving life, drinking or not drinking, living in the town or the country, being unlucky or lucky, winning or losing. It is how we win, how we lose, how we live or die, finally, how we choose.
Choice
Blyth, R. H.
I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.
Choice
Boswell, James
1740-1795 British Writer Journalist
Other people s opinion of you does not have to become your reality.
Choice
Brown, Les
1945 American Speaker Author Trainer Motivator Lecturer
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
Choice
Browne, Harry
1933 American Financial Advisor Writer
Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark which of the two takes the sunny side; he will be the younger man of the two.
Choice
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.
1803-1873 British Novelist Poet
What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
Choice
Buscaglia, Leo
American Expert on Love Lecturer Author
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.
Choice
Carpenter, Liz
American Writer
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.
Choice
Carson, Rachel
1907-1964 American Marine Biologist Author
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.
Choice
Chopra, Deepak
East-Indian- American MD New Age Author Lecturer
You are either part of the solution or part of the problem.
Choice
Cleaver, Eldridge
1935 American Black Leader Writer
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.
Choice
Clinton, Bill
1946 Forty-second President of the USA
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.
Choice
Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle
1873-1954 French Author
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.
Choice
Dewey, John
1859-1952 American Philosopher Educator
I like to be a free spirit. Some don t like that, but that s the way I am.
Choice
Diana, Princess of Wales
1961-1997 Wife of Charles Prince of Wales
Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it s always your choice.
Choice
Dyer, Wayne
1940 American Psychotherapist Author Lecturer
You can t choose up sides on a round world.
Choice
Dyer, Wayne
1940 American Psychotherapist Author Lecturer
Anything inside that immobilizes me, gets in my way, keeps me from my goals, is all mine.
Choice
Dyer, Wayne
1940 American Psychotherapist Author Lecturer
Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.
Choice
Edwards, Tryon
1809-1894 American Theologian
Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
Choice
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
We are as much informed of a writer s genius by what he selects as by what he originates.
Choice
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
You can lay down and die, or you can get up and fight, but that s it -- there s no turning back.
Choice
English, Jon
It is your own convictions which compels you; that is, choice compels choice.
Choice
Epictetus
50-120 Stoic Philosopher
Most of life is choices, and the rest is pure dumb luck.
Choice
Erickson, Marian
It is not something I must do but something I want to do
Choice
Fixx, James
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.
Choice
Fonda, Jane
1937 American Screen Actor
He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.
Choice
Fosdick, Harry Emerson
1878-1969 American Minister
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.
Choice
Frankl, Viktor E.
1905 Austrian Psychiatrist Neurology Writer Man's Search for Meaning
A human being is a deciding being.
Choice
Frankl, Viktor E.
1905 Austrian Psychiatrist Neurology Writer Man's Search for Meaning
The key to your universe is that you can choose.
Choice
Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)
1874-1939 American-Born French Painter
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.
Choice
Fritz, Robert
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.
Choice
Frost, Robert
1875-1963 American Poet
In the choice between changing one s mind and proving there s no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.
Choice
Galbraith, John Kenneth
1908 American Economist
Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
Choice
Garcia, Jerry
1945-1995 American Rock Musician Grateful Dead
No life is so hard that you can t make it easier by the way you take it.
Choice
Glasgow, Ellen
1874-1945 American Novelist
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.
Choice
Guest, Edgar A.
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.
Choice
Hand, Learned
American Judge
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.
Choice
Hawes, Joel
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.
Choice
Helmstetter, Shad
American Leading Behavioral Psychologist Author
It is always your next move.
Choice
Hill, Napoleon
1883-1970 American Speaker Motivational Writer Think and Grow Rich
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.
Choice
Hinckley, Gordon B.
Seeing the light is a choice, not seeing the light is no choice.
Choice
Horton, Doug
When you have to make a choice and don t make it, that in itself is a choice.
Choice
James, William
1842-1910 American Psychologist Professor Author
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.
Choice
James, William
1842-1910 American Psychologist Professor Author
We do pretty much whatever we want to.
Choice
Johnson, Philip
1906 American Architect and Theorist
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.
Choice
Keightley, Alan
Bright lights cast dark shadows when shone from only one direction.
Choice
Kelley, David
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?
Choice
Kohe, J. Martin
American Publisher Author
Let us choose to believe something good can happen.
Choice
Kohe, J. Martin
American Publisher Author
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.
Choice
Kohe, J. Martin
American Publisher Author
The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
Choice
Kohe, J. Martin
American Publisher Author
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]
Choice
Lee, Scout Cloud
American Author
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.
Choice
Lincoln, Abraham
1809-1865 Sixteenth President of the USA
No one ever went broke by saying no too often.
Choice
Mackay, Harvey
American Businessman Speaker Author
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.
Choice
Marx, Groucho
1895-1977 American Comic Actor
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
Choice
Mathews, Harry
1930 American Novelist
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.
Choice
Matthews, Andrew
American Artist Cartoonist Author
Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.
Choice
Mencken, H. L.
1880-1956 American Editor Author Critic Humorist
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.
Choice
Mitchell, W.
American Businessman Mayor Speaker
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.
Choice
Mitchell, Warren
1926 British Actor
Choose your love, Love your choice.
Choice
Monson, Thomas S.
Every person has free choice. Free to obey or disobey the Natural Laws. Your choice determines the consequences. Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.
Choice
Montapert, Alfred A.
American Author
The difficulty in life is the choice.
Choice
Moore, George
1852-1933 Irish Writer
When a defining moment comes along, you can do one of two things. Define the moment, or let the moment define you.
Choice
Movie, Tin Cup
It is the moment of evolutionary truth for the race, and what man does with that moment will be more important than the events of the previous millenium.
Choice
Muses, Charles
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.
Choice
Newton, Joseph Fort
People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be -- whether they will admit that or not.
Choice
Nightingale, Earl
1921-1989 American Radio Announcer Author Motivator Speaker
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.
Choice
Oxenham, John
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.
Choice
Paradox, Edward Fredkin's
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.
Choice
Pascal, Blaise
1623-1662 French Scientist Religious Philosopher
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.
Choice
Peart, Neil
Choice strengthens all.
Choice
Prescot, Neal
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.
Choice
Retton, Mary Lou
American Olympic Gymnast Speaker
Inhabit ourselves that we may indeed do what we want to do.
Choice
Richards, Mary Caroline
Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it.
Choice
Riley, Pat
1945 American Basketball Coach
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.
Choice
Robbins, Anthony
1960 American Author Speaker Peak Performance Expert / Consultant
You see, it s never the environment; it s never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events -- how we interpret them -- that shapes who we are today and who we ll become tomorrow.
Choice
Robbins, Anthony
1960 American Author Speaker Peak Performance Expert / Consultant
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
Choice
Robbins, Anthony
1960 American Author Speaker Peak Performance Expert / Consultant
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.
Choice
Robbins, Anthony
1960 American Author Speaker Peak Performance Expert / Consultant
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.
Choice
Roddenberry, Gene
American Producer Director Creator of Star Trek Series
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.
Choice
Roosevelt, Eleanor
1884-1962 American First Lady Columnist Lecturer Humanitarian
I think there is a choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.
Choice
Rukeyser, Muriel
1913-1980 American Writer
The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences.
Choice
Saying, Zen
You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.
Choice
Schechter, Solomon
The Perfect Way is only difficult for those who pick and choose. Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hairbreadth difference, and Heaven and Earth are set apart.
Choice
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.
Choice
Sinha, Shall
I am not a sound bite person. I prefer to run at the mouth.
Choice
Sirtis, Marina
1964 British-born American-born American Actress
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...
Choice
Stevens, Cat
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
Choice
Stone, W. Clement
1902 American Businessman Author
If there are things you don t like in the world you grew up in, make your own life different.
Choice
Thomas, David
American Businessman Founder of Wendy's Restaurants
You can do what you want to do. You can be what you want to be.
Choice
Thomas, David
American Businessman Founder of Wendy's Restaurants
All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.
Choice
Truman, Harry S.
1884-1972 Thirty-third President of the USA
There are always two choices. Two paths to take. One is easy. And its only reward is that it s easy.
Choice
Unknown, Source
Of all earthly creatures, humans alone have the power to choose.
Choice
Unknown, Source
Nine out of ten people who change their minds are wrong the second time too.
Choice
Unknown, Source
You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self. Don t turn away from possible futures before you re certain you don t have anything to learn from them. You re always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
Choice
Unknown, Source
You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.
Choice
Unknown, Source
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.
Choice
Unknown, Source
You must give up the way it is... to have it the way you want it
Choice
Unknown, Source
No poet sings because he must sing. At least no great poet does. A great poet sings because he chooses to sing.
Choice
Unknown, Source
Everything is something you decide to do, and there is nothing you have to do.
Choice
Waitley, Denis
1933 American Author Speaker Trainer Peak Performance Expert
There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Choice
Waitley, Denis
1933 American Author Speaker Trainer Peak Performance Expert
Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.
Choice
Walpole, Horace
1717-1797 British Author
Whenever I have to choose between two evils, I always like to try the one I haven t tried before.
Choice
West, Mae
1892-1980 American Actress
For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?
Choice
Wilder, Thornton
1897-1975 American Novelist Playwright
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.
Choice
Winfrey, Oprah
1954 American TV Personality Producer Actress Author
When you can t have what you choose, you just choose what you have.
Choice
Wister, Owen
1860-1938 American Writer
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.
Choice
Zadra, Dan
Every choice you make has an end result.
Choice
Ziglar, Zig
American Sales Trainer Author Motivational Speaker