Quotes About Choice

Every man is the author of his own life.

He who loses an opportunity is like the man who lets a bird fly from his hand, for he will never recover it.

Men make their own history but not in circumstances of their own choosing.

I am a man, Jupiter, and each man must invent his own path.

Each man must reach his own verdict, by weighing all the relevant evidence.

Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them.

Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams.

Christian love, either towards God or towards man, is an affair of the will.

Man is a free agent; but he is not free if he does not believe it.

The destiny of man is an individualistic destiny.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. Neither are a people any the less slaves because permitted periodically to choose new masters.

Has a man the right to kill himself? Yes, if his death harms no one and if life is an evil to him. When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.

God creates men, but they choose each other.

It is ironic to think that man might determine his own future by something so seemingly trivial as the choice of an insect spray.

Never let a beautiful woman pick your path for you when there is a man in her line of sight

That's a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.

The greatness of man lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition.

The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must.

Ultimate freedom is a man's right to choose his attitude.

A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.

Can any man or woman choose duties? No more than they can choose their birthplace or their father and mother.

Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.