Quotes About Choice

So, I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.

Mais même si on ne peut pas choisir d'où on vient, à partir de là, on peut quand même choisir où on veut aller.

Então, eu acho que somos quem somos por várias razões. E talvez nunca conheçamos a maior parte delas. Mas mesmo que não tenhamos o poder de escolher quem vamos ser, ainda podemos escolher aonde iremos a partir daqui. Ainda podemos fazer coisas. E podemos tentar ficar bem com elas.

Aunque no podamos cambiar de donde venimos, tenemos el poder de elegir a dónde vamos.

Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones. Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas. Pero, aunque no tengamos el poder de elegir de donde venimos, todavía podemos elegir a dónde vamos desde ahí. Todavía podemos hacer cosas. Y podemos intentar sentirnos bien con ellas.

We all get an ending. Whether or not it's happy is up to us.

Even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can choose where we can go from there.

Supongo que eres quien eres por un montón de razones y quizás nunca conozcamos muchas de ellas pero incluso si no tenemos el poder de elegir de donde venimos, podemos elegir adonde vamos.

acho que somos quem somos por várias razões. E talvez nunca conheçamos a maior parte delas. Mas mesmo que não tenhamos o poder de escolher quem vamos ser, ainda podemos escolher aonde iremos a partir daqui.

Take the chance and live. Whatever strategy you choose, YOU WIN.

Religion forces every individual to take responsibility. Specifically, take it away from yourself and give it to God. If we had to be accountable for every one of our actions, we'd be crippled with indecision. But with religion pointing the way, we can feel confident in our choice to picket our children's elementary school when we find out the art teacher is gay.

I report, I decide.

At every moment, we are volunteers.

What Frost makes clear in his poem is that the act of choosing is the most important thing. The act of moving forward is what matters. He might have chosen either teaching or poetry. But he had to choose one or the other. He looked long down each path. He understood the loss involved—the cutting off of possibilities. He saw clearly that options once discarded are usually gone forever. Way leads on to way. But Krishsna writes: Concerning one's dharma, one should not vacillate!

There are three constants in life... Change, Choice and Principles.

A moment of choice is a moment of truth. It's the testing point of our character and competence.

I have the power to choose my response.

We can't make you do anything, but we can make you wish you had.

There is nothing like daily decision-making to get the brain functioning and the body moving.

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Gaia listened carefully to this wise counsel and - as we all do, whether mortal or immortal - ignored it.

You see?' said Prometheus. 'It is your fate to be Heracles the hero, burdened with labours, yet it is also your choice. You choose to submit to it. Such is the paradox of living. We willingly accept that we have no will.

Knowing those things are going to kill you, she said, and still you do it. How differently I might behave, Tom said, if immortality were an option.

Matters of immense import may depend on such issues, but we can never do more than guess the outcomes of the roads we do not take.