Quotes About Choice

The choice we face is not, as many imagine, between heaven and hell. Rather, the choice is between heaven and this world. Even a fool would exchange hell for heaven; but only the wise will exchange this world for heaven.

Classical liberalism doesn't demand that you bow to it. It instructs you to make a decision for yourself. Then, through that process, we can figure out what is best for a society at large.

Now the end is going to come - in one fashion or another, Bines said, softly, and again he turned to Ralphie and smiled. We all know, the end will come. You either face your hunters or run from them.

The cognitive scientists have now proven the reality of "decision fatigue"—that every decision you make, little or big, diminishes a limited amount of your brain power.

It's fine to decide not to decide about something. You just need a decide-not-to-decide system to get it off your mind

The trick is to ensure not so much that what you are doing is, for you, the right thing, all the time (how, ultimately, could you know that for sure?) but that you are firmly in the driver's seat with a functioning process for discovering and engaging with your best choice.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires a great deal of strength to decide what to do.

every decision you make, little or big, diminishes a limited amount of your brain power. Deciding to "not decide" about an e-mail or anything else is another one of those decisions, which drains your psychological fuel tank.

it is championing appropriate engagement with your world—guiding you to make the best choice of what to do in each moment, and to eliminate distraction and stress about what you're not doing.

If you limit your choices to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise. —ROBERT FRITZ

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires a great deal of strength to decide what to do.—Elbert Hubbard

There is always more to do than you can do, and you can do only one thing at a time. The key is to feel as good about what you're not doing as about what you are doing at that moment. Time

All of us can do what we like." "No we can't. You're stupid if you think so.

discussion. Just know that one answer over the other does not equal a solution. It's only a decision. And decisions have ramifications

Just know that one answer over the other does not equal a solution. It's only a decision.

You have to give it thought when you're changing your whole life.

They're both black. I don't like to cut perfectly fine coffee with cream or sugar.

your butt somehow." Jordan shrugged. "I just took

But a dictator doesn't need supporters, he just needs followers. And the best way to make people follow, at least in the eyes of guys like that, is to give them no choice in the matter.

Decker said, "It doesn't have to be this

Life is what it is, Alex. You just have to accept it, because you have no other choice.

Then the question becomes what do we

If you think there's no choice, look harder. There is always a choice. A third way, if not a fourth. Whether we have the strength to make those choices is another matter. Of which I am no less guilty than anyone else.

As a moral matter, individuals must be free to make their own decisions and to succeed or fail according to their own choices. As a practical matter, as Frum points out, when we shield people from the consequences of their actions, we get a society characterized not by thrift, sobriety, diligence, self-reliance, and prudence but by profligacy, intemperance, indolence, dependency, and indifference to consequences.