Quotes About Choice

There's a saying—'I'd rather regret the things I did than the things I didn't do.' " "I actually regret both.

You can get away with a bad decision, but not a bad mistake.

I recall very well a time when things were better at answer the age-old question: Do I move or make home improvements?

an officer and a gentleman by an act of Congress, but an asshole by choice." The military also discourages

Never ask a man if he wants a bulletproof vest or a pair of mittens. Just make him put it on.

I recall very well a time when things were better at home. So, I must answer the age-old question: Do I move or make home improvements ?

There are many options in life, but one option you should never choose is the "Voice Warning and Advisory Option.

A fidelidade devia ser facultativa.

The Negro said, "I don't feel so good right now. Say, if I'd known that cutting your throat gave you septicaemia, I sure would have made a job of it." "Or else not done it at all," said Turner. The Negro paused for a moment in abstraction. "Well," he said at last, "that would have been another way.

It was a war of evil against lesser evil.

In the early 1950s, Harold Macmillan declared that the choice facing the country was between 'the slide into a shoddy and slushy Socialism (as a second-rate power), or the march to the third British Empire'. After Suez only the first option seemed to remain.

Wisdom consists of knowing how to distinguish the nature of trouble, and in choosing the lesser evil.

it is better to act and repent than not to act and regret.

Men never do good unless necessity drives them to it; but when they are free to choose and can do just as they please, confusion and disorder become rampant.

God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.

The first opinion which one forms of a prince, and of his understanding, is by observing the men he has around him; and when they are capable and faithful he may always be considered wise, because he has known how to recognize the capable and to keep them faithful. But when they are otherwise one cannot form a good opinion of him, for the prime error which he made was in choosing them.

God is unwilling to do everything Himself, lest He deprive us of our free will and of that portion of glory that belongs to us.

If his ministers are capable and loyal, people will always reckon a ruler astute, because he was able to recognize their ability and command their loyalty. When they are not, people will always have reason to criticize, because the first mistake the ruler made was in his choice of ministers. Everyone

Nevertheless, not to extinguish our free will, I hold it to be true that Fortune is the arbiter of one-half of our actions, but that she still leaves us to direct the other half, or perhaps a little less.

prudence consists in knowing how to distinguish the character of troubles, and for choice to take the lesser evil.

Los hombres rara vez tienen el valor suficiente para ser o extremadamente buenos o extremadamente malos.

It is in the nature of things that every time you try to avoid one danger you run into another. Good sense consists in being able to assess the dangers and choose the lesser of various evils.

Dios no quiere hacerlo todo, para no privarnos de nuestro libre albedrío ni quitarnos una parte de la obra que en nuestro bien redundará.

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