Quotes About Choices

Is a man ruled by his own free will, or is he a composite of all his experiences, his education and heredity?

I could have been a great many things.

Better be happy old maids than unhappy wives, or unmaidenly girls, running about to find husbands. ~ Mr.s March

It's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can't have the one you want.

Money is a needful and precious thing, and when well used, a noble thing, but I never want you to think it is the firdt or onlsy prize to strive for. I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queens on thrones, without self-respect and peace.

Más vale ser una solterona feliz que una esposa desgraciada o una jovencita desvergonzada ávida por encontrar marido

Though he rejected champagne as too expensive in his last days

Jody had watched other classmates, including many in college prep, enter such a life with an impatient fatalism. They got pregnant or arrested or simply dropped out. Some boys, more defiant, filled the junkyards with crushed metal. Crosses garlanded with flowers and keepsakes marked roadsides where they'd died. You could see it coming in the smirking yearbook photos they'd left behind.

Ah, esas otras infinitas vidas posibles que se abrían como la cola de un pavo real en torno a nuestra existencia, todas esas modificaciones de nuestro destino que podrían haber tenido lugar con tan sólo variar un pequeño detalle.

Rudyard Kipling

The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, but that there are so many answers

The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers.

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Men on the road together have three choices. They separate, they kill one another, or they work things out.

Bir ÅŸey tabi hiçbir ÅŸey den çok, çok daha iyidir, yar? memnun geçirdiÄŸimiz ömrün sonunda kar??m?za ç?ksa bile.

We often behave in ways that are guaranteed to make us unhappy.

How can we make sense of our lives, and hold people accountable for their choices, given the unconscious origins of our conscious minds?

When money comes in at the gate, sport flies out at the window.

Practice works because practice gives us a chance to relax enough to make smart choices.

Look at the choices you have, not the choices that have been taken away from you. In them, there are whole worlds of strength and new ways to look at things.

I don't think I would want my children to enter into my profession. There's a lot of stress and so much competition. There are easier things you can do with your life.

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.

True success in this life comes in consecrating our lives—that is, our time and choices—to God's purposes. In so doing, we permit Him to raise us to our highest destiny.

Success has less to do with what we can get ourselves to do and more to do with keeping ourselves from doing what we shouldn't.