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Quotes About Choice

A man, when he wishes, is the master of his fate.
~ Jose Ferrer
Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.
~ Josh Billings
The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.
~ Jules Renard
I actually think it's a good thing that men also have the option to take leave. 'Cause sometimes women are breadwinners in the family.
~ Katie Pavlich
I love children and I love men, but I can't commit to either for the rest of my life.
~ Lara Flynn Boyle
Not all of life's roads are set fast, for a man may do this or a man may do that and not even the gods know the mind of a man.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Adult women are able to make decisions about their own lives' course no less than men are.
~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Man has free choice, or otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards and punishments would be in vain.
~ Thomas Aquinas
One of the evils of democracy is, you have to put up with the man you elect whether you want him or not.
~ Will Rogers
Men at sometime are the masters of their fate.
~ William Shakespeare
Under the big political umbrella, a man is just like a leaf in the ocean, with no control of his destiny and does not have any choice.
~ Zhang Yimou
Of neighborhoods, benevolence is the most beautiful. How can the man be considered wise who when he had the choice does not settle in benevolence.
~ Confucius
When a man gets his money in bad ways, when he sees the better course and takes the worse, then the devil's in his heart, and that fixes him.
~ Dan Totheroh
No man is obliged to be what he might have been.
~ David Berlinski
Law intends indeed to do service to human life, but it is not able when men do not choose to accept her services; for it is only in those who are obedient to her that she displays her special virtue.
~ Epictetus
Two times two will be four even without my will. Is that what you call man's free will?
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.
~ Gautama Buddha
It is a happy thing for us that this is really all we have to concern ourselves about--what to do next. No man can do the second thing. He can do the first.
~ George MacDonald
Any man that can't find what he is looking for in a thousand women is really looking for a boy.
~ Gershon Legman
People are not to be driven and you can put into a gnat's eye all the souls of the children of men that are driven into heaven by preaching hell-fire.
~ Brigham Young
Come, let us choose us wives from among the children of men and beget us children.
~ Enoch
The laws of God, the laws of man, He may keep that will and can; Not I: let God and man decree Laws for themselves and not for me.
~ A. E. Housman
Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.
~ A. E. Housman
A man is about as happy as he makes up his mind to be.
~ Abraham Lincoln