Quotes About Choice

Choice of attention, to pay attention to this and ignore that, is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer.

Liberty of conscience (when people have consciences) is rightly considered the most indispensable of liberties.

The only man who can change his mind is the man who's got one.

I have often though morality may perhaps consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

Many women miss their greatest chance of happiness through a want of courage in a decisive moment.

In true courage there is always an element of choice, of an ethical choice, and of anguish, and also of action and deed. There is always a flame of spirit in it, a vision of some necessity higher than oneself.

Human life consists in mutual service. No grief, pain, misfortune, or 'broken heart' is excuse for cutting off one's life while any power of service remains. But when all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.

Men and women everywhere must exercise deliberate selection to live wisely.

Choice of attention ... is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.

You are the one who must choose your place.

Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.

The difficulty of life is in the choice.

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.

Decisions determine destiny.

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

One must either accept some theory or else believe one's own instinct or follow the world's opinion.

Decide which is the line of conduct that presents the fewest drawbacks and then follow it out as being the best one, because one never finds anything perfectly pure and unmixed, or exempt from danger.

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

Wisdom consists in being able to distinguish among dangers and make a choice of the least harmful.

Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.

A decision is an action you must take when you have information so incomplete that the answer does not suggest itself.

It is always thus, impaled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, that we make our irrevocable decisions.

Deliberation often loses a good chance.

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.