Quotes About Choice

One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, "Is it half full or half empty?" So I drank the water. No more problem.

The Gospel is the savour of life unto life, or of death unto death. The same fire melts wax and hardens clay. The same Christ is salvation and destruction. God is to each of us either our joy or our dread. II.

And binding Nature fast in fate,Left free the human will.

Whether thou choose Cervantes' serious air,Or laugh and shake in Rabelais' easy chair.

Oh let me live my own! and die so too! ("To live and die is all I have to do:") Maintain a poet's dignity and ease, And see what friends, and read what books I please.

This is not a full circle. It's Life carrying on. It's the next breath we all take. It's the choice we all make to get on with it.

I woke up on May 15 1991, the day of my Barnard graduation, and I said to myself, 'By the end of today you will decide what you want to do with the rest of your life.'

You're an idiot. Don't put words into my mouth. I might not be happy I had no choice, and I might be confused as hell, but I am not going to let others get hurt because I'm confused. Now, let's go see this horde of scary, dangerous wolves so I can get my flesh burned and hide from the humans who tried to kill me. Because that sounds like a fun way to spend the day.

I don't always buy organic food. It is more expensive.

Not doing anything can be worse than doing the wrong thing.

It's not getting what you want that's the hard part, it's deciding what you want.

You can't make yourself fall in love, just as you can't choose who you fall in love with.

You want to be the one making the decisions. Sitting on the fence is one thing, but what happens when the fence is taken away from you? Do you jump off joyfully or fall crashing to the floor?

The only life worth living is the one we take responsibility for choosing.

We choose how enthusiastically we live our time alive.

Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.

To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act We do not know.

Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.

Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom.

Are we encouraging him to make his own judgments about what constitutes a good performance (or a desirable action) ? Are we contributing to, or at least preserving, his ability to choose what kind of person to be? Or are we attempting to manipulate his behavior by getting him to think about whether he has met our criteria? The

Students will become good readers when they read more. Students will read more when they enjoy reading. They will enjoy reading when they enjoy their reading material. They will enjoy their reading material when they are left to choose it themselves, and to delve into it on their own terms.

When we repeatedly promise rewards to children for acting responsibly, or to students for making an effort to learn something new, or to employees for doing quality work, we are assuming that they could not or would not choose to act this way on their own.

Every person has free choice. Free to obey or disobey the Natural Laws. Your choice determines the consequences. Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.

Life in general has no meaning. Whatever meaning life has must be assigned to it by the individual.