Quotes About Choice

To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.

Your words have the power of life and death. Choose them wisely.

Every uncomfortable experience in life gives you the choice of growing bitter or better.

Old: Give me liberty or give me death. - New: Give me liberty or give me debt.

Discipline is a given; the choice is whether it is applied internally or externally.

We don't admit it to ourselves, not until the very moment of death, but in that moment, we see all life before us and we understand how we chose, every day of our lives, the manner of our death.

We all choose our own teachers, don't we? I wonder if our choice of teacher shows anything about what our lives will be.

I merely observe that all living things are manipulated. As long as there is a will, it is bent and twisted constantly. Only the dead are allowed the luxury of freedom, and then only because they want nothing, and therefore can't be thwarted.

I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.

A man does not belong to the place he was born in, but to the place he chooses to die.

Tener o no un final feliz depende de dónde decidas detener la narración de la historia

Surprising condition, this, of our existence! To live is to feel ourselves fatally obliged to exercise our liberty, to decide what we are going to be in this world. Not for a single moment is our activity of decision allowed to rest. Even when in desperation we abandon ourselves to whatever may happen, we have decided not to decide.

Nuestra vida es, en todo instante y antes que nada, conciencia de lo que nos es posible. Si en cada momento no tuviéramos delante más que una sola posibilidad, carecería de sentido llamarla así. Sería más bien pura necesidad.»

The author explores the result of endless choice. It is not only overload, but a profound loss of unity, solidity, and coherence in life.

For while we may debate our freedom to choose, there is no doubt that we are not free not to choose.

unbelief turns on an act of will and a habit of mind shaped by choice.

Either we conform our desires to the truth or we conform the truth to our desires.

Living itself is the source of sin.

I had no choice but to pray for his death. Typically enough, the one thing that never occurred to me was to kill him. During the course of my life I have wished innumerable times that I might meet with a violent death, but I have never once desired to kill anybody. I thought that in killing a dreaded adversary I might actually be bringing him happiness.

I should have died sooner. But there was one thing: Mama's love. When I thought of that I couldn't die. It's true, as I have said, that just as man has the right to live as he chooses, he has the right to die when he pleases, and yet as long as my mother remained alive, I felt that the right to death would have to be left in abeyance, for to exercise it would have meant killing her too.

Doesn't that mean in effect that i have no choice but suicide?

In terms of sealing your fate, there's no difference between turning right on a whim and turning right because you've come to some momentous resolve. Either way, it can't be undone.

Once you've given in to that whim, your destiny is decided. There's no such thing as 'seeing what happens' in this life. To do something just to see what happens is exactly the same as just plain doing it.

People do not necessarily think and consider in a prescribed way before choosing the path they'll walk. For the most part they simply wander, at some point, into a different meadow.