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Quotes About Choice

The true savage is a slave, and is always talking about what he must do; the true civilised man is a free man, and is always talking about what he may do.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
A man can choose his enemies but not his supporters.
~ Grace Zaring Stone
It is the inalienable right of every man, woman, and child to wear khaki.
~ Lisa Birnbach
...even though you said yes to the wrong man, I hope that won't cause you to say no to the right one.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Because sometimes, a man could do nothing about where he came from, he could only control where he went
~ Lora Leigh
In order to protect himself from force, man was obliged to submit to justice. Justice or force: he was compelled to choose between the two masters, so little are we made to be independent.
~ Luc de Clapiers
Nobody is in a position to decree what should make a fellow man happier.
~ Ludwig von Mises
Man is the maker of his own destiny, and I therefore ask you to become makers of your own destiny.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
People can't do much about the fate part, but we can certainly do a lot about the man part.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
A wise man does nothing by constraint.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
If being stupid is the only way for an intelligent man to be happy, then let us hope that unhappiness be his choice!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
If man is able to live healthily as a vegetarian but chooses not to be one, then man is guilty of eating meat!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
It is up to man to be an angel or a devil! You become whatever you choose to be!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Since no man has a predetermined destiny, every day all man can create a new destiny for himself!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The concept of fate is an open insult against man's willpower!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
A man must either imitate the vicious or hate them.
~ Michel de Montaigne
But man, because he has only one life to live, cannot conduct experiments to test whether to follow his passion (compassion) or not.
~ Milan Kundera
Man is the being who is involuntarily and voluntarily busy with himself and his surroundings, between two broadcasting stations of good and evil, until one or the other ultimately prevails.
~ Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani
Man must make his choice between ease and wealth; either may be his, but not both.
~ Newell Dwight Hillis
In all crises of human affairs there are two broad courses open to a man. He can stay where he is or he can go elsewhere.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.
~ Oscar Wilde
A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man has a right to keep his own sentiments if he pleases.
~ Richard Yates
White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so; life's business being just the terrible choice.
~ Robert Browning