Quotes About Choice

Properly understood, then, the desire to act justly derives in part from the desire to express most fully what we are or can be, namely free and equal rational beings with the liberty to choose.

When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.

Liberty consists in doing what one desires.

When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. When you desire a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.

It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.

He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve it, but follow the wrong.

The moment you say yes to acting on your desire is the real beginning.

Do we have free will, or do the mass media and our culture control us, our desires and actions, from the moment we're born?

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else.

If any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for others

The warrior knows that he is free to choose his desires, and he makes these decisions with courage, detachment, and - sometimes - with just a touch of madness.

It was not my desire to go off and serve in Vietnam.

Evil, as evil, can never be chosen; and though evil is often the effect of our own choice, yet we never desire it but under the appearance of an imaginary good.

The sole evidence it is possible to produce that anything is desirable, is that people do actually desire it.

There are no accidents in this world, that no living being is seduced into an entanglement that he did not invite with his innermost desires. Would you agree with my estimation?

All I desire for my own burial, is not to be buried alive; but how or where, I think, must be entirely indifferent to every rational creature.

The tragedy of being both rational and animal seems to consist in having to choose between duty and desire rather than in making any particular choice

We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely...change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.

Your destiny is what you make. It's the choices that you make. And for every choice, there's a consequence.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.