Quotes About Choice

Golf isn't a game, it's a choice that one makes with one's life.

Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.

We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children's children will go that way but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.

Basically, there are two paths you can walk: faith or fear. It's impossible to simultaneously trust God and not trust God.

The ideally free Ego would be a lucid calculator of payoffs.

The Bible teaches that there is a holy God whose law constitutes a transcendent, universally valid standard of right and wrong. Our choice has no effect at all on this standard; our choice simply determines whether we accept it, or reject it and suffer the consequences.

A market economy is to economics what democracy is to government: a decent, if flawed, choice among many bad alternatives.

The real cost of something is what you must give up in order to get it, which is almost always more than just cash.

Why did the chicken cross the road? Because it maximized his utility.

but he did not change his purpose, nor did the universe invite him to change. It accepted the choice; no more preventing him than it prevents a child playing with fire or a fool destroying his love. It has not our kindness or our decency; if it is good, its goodness is of another kind than ours.

There is, it seems, a law in things that if a man is compelled to choose between two good actions, mutually exclusive, the one which he chooses to neglect will in course of time avenge itself on him. Rightly considered, this is a comfortable if chastening thought, for it implies that the nature of good is such that it can never, not even for some other mode of itself, be neglected. If ever it is, for whatever admirable reasons, set on one side it will certainly return.

There is no possible idea," Kenneth thought as he came onto the terrace, "to which the mind of man can't supply some damned alternative or other. Yet one must act.

Character … is a habit, the daily choice of right over wrong; it is a moral quality which grows to maturity in peace and is not suddenly developed on the outbreak of war.

This, then, is my choice: I can allow the events of my life to happen to me. Or I can take those very same actions and make them my own. I can live in my own present, risk failure, be assured of failure.

When it happens, this is what happens: I shoot myself. Not, you know, my self self. I shoot my future self. He steps out of a time machine, introduces himself as Charles Yu. What else am I supposed to do? I kill him. I kill my own future.

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

But wanderlust is like a pretty girl - you wake up one morning, find she's grown old and decide that either you're going to commit your life or you're going to walk away.

Ameresti il tuo nemico? Io lo sto già facendo, sembra sia il mio sbaglio preferito!

You know as well as I do that any regrets we have are for things we chose not to do, not for the things we chose to do.

I would always rather be happy than dignified.

All we can do is step from one moment to the next, make our best decision with what we know, and breathe.

The effort of decision, we have seen, is the greatest effort of life; not the doing of the thing, but the making up of one's mind as to which thing to do first. It is commonly this sort of mental indolence, born of indecision, which leads to dawdling habits.

The people people choose for friendsYour common sense appall,But the people people marryAre the queerest folk of all.

Why not? Why not be your own man for once in your life — do what you want to — not what other people want you to?