Quotes about Choice

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

Can any man or woman choose duties? No more that they can choose their birthplace, or their father or mother.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

The reality is that everyone is responsible for their own life. We're dealt certain cards at birth, and we play our hand; some of us lose, but others may play skillfully from the same bad hand and triumph. Our cards determine who we are: age, gender, race, family, nationality, etc., and we can't change them, only play them to the best of our abilities. The game is marked by challenges and chances, strategizing and cheating.

Writing is a calling, not a choice.

God asks no man whether he will accept life. This is not the choice. You must take it. The only question is how.

Very few live by choice. Every man is placed in his present condition by causes which acted without his foresight, and with which he did not always willingly cooperate; and therefore you will rarely meet one who does not think the lot of his neighbor better than his own.

Middle age is when you have a choice of two temptations and choose the one that will get you home earlier.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men.

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.