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Quotes About Choice

Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen
~ Pindar
A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man may lose the good things of this life against his will; but if he loses the eternal blessings, he does so with his own consent.
~ Saint Augustine
Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.
~ Bayard Taylor
A wise man's heart directs him toward the right, but a foolish man's heart directs him toward the left.
~ Solomon
Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
~ Stendhal
A man does not always choose what his guardian angel intends.
~ Thomas Aquinas
But man is freer than all the animals, on account of his free-will, with which he is endowed above all other animals.
~ Thomas Aquinas
How do you expect to arrive at the end of your own journey if you take the road to another man's city?
~ Thomas Merton
As a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing,but does only and wholly what he must do.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.
~ William Shakespeare
You have fettered yourself of your own free will, man - break the fetters!
~ Halldor Laxness
It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own
~ Herodotus
Honestly if men are given a choice, we'll choose everything.
~ James Blunt
A man may well bring a horse to water but he cannot make him drink.
~ John Heywood
Men's happiness or misery is [for the] most part of their own making.
~ John Locke
Don't you want to take a leap of faith? Or become an old man, filled with regret, waiting to die alone!
~ Ken Watanabe
Nature's way is simple and easy, but men prefer the intricate and artificial.
~ Laozi
Life becomes the way it is lived; and man may live the way he wants to live when he learns to think what he wants to think.
~ Christian D. Larson
I've always said, I like my coffee like I like my men... I don't drink coffee.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
You are a good young man," she said. "But I do not like husbands. I will never have another.
~ George Eliot
Which not peace for the man who is forced to go to war, for he will find his peace. But wish peace for the man who goes to war willingly, for he will never find his peace.
~ Miguel
The man of decision cannot be stopped! The man of indecision cannot be started! Take your own choice.
~ Napoleon Hill