Quotes About Choice

Somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

Self-pity is a death that has no resurrection, a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink.

Every message of despair is the statement of a situation from which everybody must freely try to find a way out.

I am learning that if I just go on accepting the framework for life that others have given me, if I fail to make my own choices, the reason for my life will be missing. I will be unable to recognize that which I have the power to change.

To be born free is an accident; to live free a responsibility; to die free is an obligation.

The future is not in the hands of fate, but in ours.

The destiny of man is in his own soul.

Up to a point a man's life is shaped by environment, heredity, and movements and changes in the world about him; then there comes a time when it lies within his grasp to shape the clay of his life into the sort of thing he wishes to be. ... Everyone has it within his power to say, this I am today, that I shall be tomorrow.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creature of man. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

Choice of attention-to pay attention to this and ignore that-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.

Heaven and hell is right now. ... You make it heaven or you make it hell by your actions.

Freedom means choosing your burden.

To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you that you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.

I am a moonbeam, free to go whenever I choose.

My will shall shape my future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own. I am the force; I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice, my responsibility; win or lose, only I hold the key to my destiny.

You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place.

One cannot weep for the entire world. It is beyond human strength. One must choose.

Men at some time are masters of their fates.

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

My mother said to me, "If you become a soldier, you'll be a general, if you become a monk you'll end up as the pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

Everyone to his taste.

Why should people pay good money to go out and see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?

Every moderate drinker could abandon the intoxicating cup if he would; every inebriate would if he could.