Quotes about Choice

Why shouldn't we be honest and honorable, and lie every time we get a chance? That is to say, why shouldn't we be consistent, and either lie all the time or not at all?

It's the same here as it is on earth—you've got to earn a thing, square and honest, before you enjoy it.  You can't enjoy first and earn afterwards.  But there's this difference, here: you can choose your own occupation, and all the powers of heaven will be put forth to help you make a success of it, if you do your level best.  The shoe-maker on earth that had the soul of a poet in him won't have to make shoes here.

You will be more disappointed in life by the things that you do not do than by the things that you do.

All right, then, I'll go to hell"—and tore it up.

He would now have comprehended that work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and that play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.

Time itself is neutral; it can be used either destructively or constructively

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

I have hardly had time to think over all that you have told me. It's a big thing for a man to have to understand and to decide at one sitting. I should like to have a quiet hour by myself to make up my mind.

To be alone is the fate of all great minds—a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.

A man cannot serve two masters: so it is either reason or the scriptures. - On Religion

You can do what you will: but at each given moment of your life you can will only one determined thing and by no means anything other than this one.