Quotes About Choice

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

We create our fate every day we live.

We all find time to do what we really want to do.

Nothing determines who we will become so much as those things we choose to ignore.

'No' and 'Yes' are words quickly said, but they need a great amount of thought before you utter them.

Life is a narrative that you have a hand in writing.

Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worst.

What you can't get is just what suits you.

Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best, and he answered, "Somebody else's."

What I emphasize is for people to make choices based not on fear, but on what really gives them a sense of fulfillment.

Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or on being.

People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experiences they want their children to have.

One man's meat is another's poison.

Poetry was the maiden I loved, but politics was the harridan I married.

Politics is a field where action is one long second best and where the choice constantly lies between two blunders.

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.

Optimism is an intellectual choice.

Man does not simply exist, but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

Wouldst thou both eat they cake and have it?

There is no man in any rank who is always at liberty to act as he would incline. In some quarter or other he is limited by circumstances.

Life is the acceptance of responsibilities or their evasion; it is a business of meeting obligations or avoiding them. To every man the choice is continually being offered, and by the manner of his choosing you may fairly measure him.

Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own?

When people don't want to come, nothing will stop them.