Quotes About Choice

It is thy duty oftentimes to do what thou wouldst not; thy duty, too, to leave undone that thou wouldst do.

When I demanded of my friend what viands he preferred, He quoth: "A large cold bottle, and a small hot bird!"

I have always had a dread of becoming a passenger in life.

Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it.

Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.

Of two evils choose the least.

Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.

When choosing between two evils, I always like to take the one I've never tried before.

It is human to err, but it is devilish to remain willfully in error.

One must choose between Obscurity with Efficiency, and Fame with its inevitable collateral of Bluff.

The die is cast.

There is no banquet but some dislike something in it.

France, freed from that monster, Bonaparte, must again become the most agreeable country on earth. It would be the second choice of all whose ties of family and fortune give a preference to some other one, and the first choice of all not under those ties.

There is but one good throw upon the dice, which is to throw them away.

To choose is also to begin.

What you don't do can be a destructive force.

And all that you are sorry for is what you haven't done.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act, but I do believe in a fate that falls on men unless they act.

Give way to the Better if way to the Better there be, It exacts a full look at the Worst.

You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do-or don't do.

People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.

There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.

Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.

To govern is to choose.