Quotes About Choice

I don't feel the same now. Which means that he hasn't caused me to feel how I've felt. I've always had the choice.

think I'd prefer tomorrow morning.

Think about it this way," Bud went on, pointing to the board. "What's the only thing that happened in this story between the time that I wasn't irritated and angry and the time I was?" I looked at the diagram. "Your choice not to do what you felt you should do," I said. "Your self-betrayal." "That's right. That's all that happened. So what caused my irritation and anger at Nancy?

Or maybe it was too late, and I had already chosen, inadvertently and incrementally, to be something else.

I asked if she'd ever wanted children. She told me, "Everybody doesn't get everything." It sounded depressing to me at the time, a statement of defeat. Now admitting it seems like the obvious and essential work of growing up. Everybody doesn't get everything: as natural and unavoidable as mortality.

Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.

Whatever lies within our power to do lies also within our power not to do.

The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.

Choice not chance determines your destiny [my family motto...credited to Aristotle]

Virtue lies in our power, and similarly so does vice; because where it is in our power to act, it is also in our power not to act...

Choice, not chance, determines your destiny.

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, showing what kind of things a man chooses or avoids.

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

What is the Good for man? It must be the ultimate end or object of human life: something that is in itself completely satisfying. Happiness fits this description…we always choose it for itself, and never for any other reason.

For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.

Every skill and every inquiry, and similarly every action and rational choice, is thought to aim at some good; and so the good had been aptly described as that at which everything aims.

Every art or applied science and every systematic investigation, and similarly every action and choice, seem to aim at some good; the good, therefore, has been well defined as that at which all things aim.

By the way, a question is sometimes raised, whether the moral choice or the actions have most to do with Virtue, since it consists in both: it is plain that the perfection of virtuous action requires both: but for the actions many things are required, and the greater and more numerous they are the more.)

Again, it is for the sake of the soul that goods external and goods of the body are eligible at all, and all wise men ought to choose them for the sake of the soul, and not the soul for the sake of them.

We shall learn the qualities of governments in the same way as we learn the qualities of individuals, since they are revealed in their deliberate acts of choice; and these are determined by the end that inspires them.

All that is done on compulsion is bitterness to the soul.

Beside these there is no other way; for the act is necessarily either done or not done, and those who act either have knowledge or do not.

existence is to all men a thing to be chosen and loved, and that we exist by virtue of activity (i.e. by living and acting), and that the handiwork is in a sense, the producer in activity; he loves his handiwork, therefore, because he loves existence.

Every art and every inquiry, and likewise every action and choice, seems to aim at some good, and hence it has been beautifully said that the good is that at which all things aim.