Choice Quotes

Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved. (William Jennings Bryan)
When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice. View quote
William James
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice. View quote
Ben Jonson
A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger. View quote
Euripides
I say that the strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. View quote
George Eliot
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies. View quote
Oscar Wilde
When your absolutely only choice is between an untruth and rudeness, then choose rudeness; if, however, your choice is between an untruth and cruelty, then choose untruth. View quote
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
The history of free men is never really written by chance - but by choice. Their choice. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
My choice early in life was either to be a piano-player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference. View quote
Harry S. Truman
There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action. (John Dewey)
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
Fervor is the weapon of choice for the impotent. View quote
Frantz Fanon
Necessity relieves us from the embarrassment of choice. View quote
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from. View quote
Peter Ustinov
I believe that the fundamental alternative for man is the choice between "life" and "death"; between creativity and destructive violence; between reality and illusions; between objectivity and intolerance; between brotherhood-independence and dominance-submission. View quote
Erich Fromm
We must believe in free will, we have no choice. View quote
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action? View quote
Arthur Miller
Acting is a mix of luck and choice. I got lucky. View quote
John Travolta
As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility. View quote
Arnold J. Toynbee
We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives. (William Glasser)
Torture is an impermissible evil. Except under two circumstances. The first is the ticking time bomb. An innocent's life is at stake. The bad guy you have captured possesses information that could save this life. He refuses to divulge. In such a case, the choice is easy. View quote
Charles Krauthammer
Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give. View quote
David O. McKay
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause. View quote
William James
We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind. View quote
Thornton Wilder
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