Quotes about Choice
In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
We have a choice when we face difficult decisions: We can act with faith or we can act with fear. There are no guarantees except this one: If we dwell on our fears, we will definitely miss the joys of the unexpected.
- Arianna Huffington
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids
- Aristotle
The majority of mankind would seem to be beguiled into error by pleasure, which, not being really a good, yet seems to be so. So that they indiscriminately choose as good whatsoever gives them pleasure, while they avoid all pain alike as evil.
- Aristotle
A man is the origin of his action.
- Aristotle
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.
- Aristotle
A man married to the right woman will be happy. A man married to the wrong woman will be a philosopher.
- Aristotle
What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
- Aristotle
Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.
- Aristotle
All is foreseen, but freedom of choice is given.
- Akiva ben Joseph
I am glad that I am in a position to select scripts I would be comfortable working in.
- Sridevi
My brother and I were both good at science, and we were both good at English literature. Either one of us could have gone either way.
- Margaret Atwood