Quotes About Choice

Boys do what they can; men do what they want

It is in the middle that human choices are made; the beginning and the end remain with God. The decrees of God are birth and death, and in between those limits man makes his own distress or joy.

I would live the same life over if I had to live again, And the chances are I go where most men go.

Serving God is doing good to man, but praying is thought an easier service and therefore more generally chosen.

Men make their own fates - it's personal, not a matter for debate.

Every man is the painter and the sculptor of his own life.

It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains.

A rational man acting in the real world may be defined as one who decides where he will strike a balance between what he desires and what can be done.

Man is free in his imagination, but bound by his reason.

Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.

Chance is better than choice; it is more lordly. Chance is God, choice is man.

Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

Personally, I do not believe that it is the duty of any man or woman to write a novel. In nine cases out of ten, there would be greater merit in leaving it unwritten.

No man in his senses can hesitate in choosing to be free, rather than a slave.

If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, and time and energy limited.

Men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by which they are determined.

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learnt to separate them.

You cannot prevent a man getting drunk if he wishes to do so, but when he becomes a nuisance, then you interfere.

I guess under the right circumstances, a man will do just about anything.

If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he married.

One has got to choose between the two evils, also between the lesser of the two evils in the matter of food, and therefore vegetarian food has got to be taken by man in order to sustain human life.

And it happened all the time that the compromise between two perfectly rational alternatives was something that made no sense at all.

Which path do you intend to take, Nell?' said the Constable, sounding very interested. 'Conformity or rebellion?' Neither one. Both ways are simple-minded - they are only for people who cannot cope with contradiction and ambiguity.

This is one of the two great labyrinths into which human minds are drawn: the question of free will versus predestination.