Quotes About Choice

when you pick an idiot for a job, you have to expect idiocy

mastered their fate was more important than what that fate was.

Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them. It is destiny which makes them prudent.

Right, wrong, doesn't matter. Just do something.

you can hire anybody to do anything.

You are really and truly and completely free. There is no kicker. There is no if, and, or but. You are free. You can do it right or wrong. You can obey or disobey. You can run from Christ or run to Christ. You can choose to become a faithful Christian or an unfaithful Christian. You can cry, cuss, and spit, or laugh, sing, and dance. You can read a novel or the Bible. You can watch television or pray. You're free...really free.

You are really and truly and completely free.

Responsibility is powerful when thought of in its positive sense. It is the ability to choose our responses.

A person who does not make a choice makes a choice.

Everything that's truly irrevocable finally has to do with love or freedom, but whether you act in the name of the first or the second, one of them ultimately bows to the other and that's the most irrevocable thing of all.

There's no rule in the end, but only the situation and the inclination of your mind

We're like the comic strip character Hagar the Horrible who, when asked which he'd choose, power, gold, or true happiness, chose power: "With power, I could get the gold, and then I'd be happy." We find Hagar's idea humorous because we know better. Yet most of the time we ignore this very knowledge, and act (or at least think) much like Hagar.

There can be no moral authority to tell you what to do, for no such authority can lie outside your own will.

Socrates pointed out that we carry on as though death were the greatest of all calamities—yet, for all we know, it might be the greatest of all blessings. What are we going to call good? What are we going to call bad? Good or bad is never our choice, or even the issue.

Saber qué hacer y tener el valor para hacerlo son dos cosas diferentes.

Algunas de nuestras decisiones más sensatas tienen que ver con lo que decidimos no hacer.

Se você quer ter uma boa vida, acerte na hora de casar.

CLARITY TRUMPS CONSISTENCY If you can make something significantly clearer by making it slightly inconsistent, choose in favor of clarity.

So, I can hurt now, or hurt later.

All this in no way discounts her attractiveness. Mirabelle is attractive; it's just that she is never the first or second girl chosen.

I'VE picked the Golden Delicious from

In ACT, values are freely chosen, verbally constructed consequences of ongoing, dynamic, evolving patterns of activity, which establish predominant reinforcers for that activity that are intrinsic in engagement in the valued behavioral pattern itself

While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.

Our Behaviour is a function of our decisions, not our conditions