Quotes About Choice

A man does not have to stay at home all day, in order to love it; why should a woman?

Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometime grew within this learned man. Faustus is gone.

I did learn a great deal about my husband but I also learned something about myself: I made a wise choice. I think he's a good man.

Maybe the man had taken the wrong turning, but at least he'd travelled some extraordinary roads.

A wise man sees the path all must walk and embraces the free will of humankind, even if to watch it unfold causes him pain.

Men are more salary-sensitive when they're choosing a job.

You cannot avoid mortality. But you can choose your way of meeting it. And that is the most that any man can hope for.

Which would be worse - to live as a monster, or to die as a good man?

How can a young man like to wear a beard?

when man determined to destroy himself he picked the was of shall and finding only why smashed it into because.

Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue?

Freedom was born in Greece because there men limited their own freedom. ... The limits to action established by law were a mere nothing compared to the limits established by a man's free choice.

Freedom is one of the principal goals of human endeavor, but the best use man can make of his freedom is to place limitations upon it.

There is no inevitability in history except as men make it.

I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity and chance.

The whole universe sat there, open to the man who could make the right decisions.

Denn was ist Freiheit? Dasz man den Willen zur Selbstverantwortlichkeit hat.

Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born.

ThereÂ's no easier way to cure foolishness than to give a man leave to be foolish. And the only way to show a fellow that heÂ's chosen the wrong business is to let him try it.

For this, deep waters whelm the fruitful lea, Wars ravage, famine wastes, plague withers, nor Shall cease till men have chosen the better part.

A true man does what he will, not what he must.

The old man laid a withered, spotted hand on his shoulder. "It hurts, boy," he said softly. "Oh, yes. Choosing . . . it has always hurt. And always will. I know.

In the choice of a horse and a wife a man must please himself ignoring the opinion and advice of friends.

Every man is the maker of his own fortune