CHOICE QUOTES V

quotations about choice

You've got a lot of choices. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you're not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice.

STEVEN D. WOODHULL

attributed, Quote Unquote


Any time choice is restricted in some way, there is bound to be someone, somewhere, who is deprived of the opportunity to pursue something of personal value.

BARRY SCHWARTZ

The Paradox of Choice


Choice there is not, unless the thing which we take to be so is in our power, that we might have refused it. If the fire consume the stable, it choseth not so to do, because the nature thereof is such that it can do no other.

RICHARD HOOKER

Ecclesiastical Polity


There are moments in our lives when we find ourselves at a crossroads. Afraid. Confused. Without a roadmap. The choices we make in those moments can define the rest of our days.

LUCAS SCOTT

"Things I Forgot at Birth", One Tree Hill


For our choices take our dimensions in two ways: First, by the kind of them. We may select paltry and showy things, ease, pleasures which have no mind in them, cheap influence with our fellows. Whether there be baseness in this, or whether, as the Stoics would have it, it be only such a savage ignorance as would choose a glass bead before a book, the reckoning is the same as to coarse grain in character; and they who publish this measure of themselves do, indeed, like heavy-bearded cowards, assume but "nature's excrement" to make themselves respected. If we set our choice so high that perforce the low must be left, so high as beauty, generosity, strength of mind, stores of knowledge, memories of the hungry fed, the forsaken cheered, the fallen lifted, humane works watched and reenforced--it is no more than to elect the things which mark us as men.

JAMES VILA BLAKE

Essays


A complete stranger has the capacity to alter the life of another irrevocably. This domino effect has the capacity to change the course of an entire world. That is what life is; a chain reaction of individuals colliding with others and influencing their lives without realizing it. A decision that seems miniscule to you, may be monumental to the fate of the world.

J. D. STROUBE

Caged by Damnation


Between two stools one sits on the ground.

FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Gargantua


The difficulty in life is the choice.

GEORGE MOORE

Bending of the Bough


We make our decisions, and then our decisions turn around and make us.

F. W. BOREHAM

attributed, The Westminster Collection of Christian Quotations


The problem, simply put, is that we cannot choose everything simultaneously. So we live in danger of becoming paralyzed by indecision, terrified that every choice might be the wrong choice.

ELIZABETH GILBERT

Committed


What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?

JIM BUTCHER

White Night


The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.

FLORA WHITTEMORE

attributed, Quote Unquote


Choice is what enables us to tell the world who we are and what we care about.

BARRY SCHWARTZ

The Paradox of Choice


He that will not when he may,
When he will he shall have nay.

ROBERT BURTON

Anatomy of a Melancholy


Every journey conceals another journey within its lines: the path not taken and the forgotten angle.

JEANETTE WINTERSON

Sexing the Cherry


The difficulty in life is the choice.

GEORGE MOORE

The Bending of the Bough


To choose, is to will one thing before another; and to will, is to bend our souls to the having or doing of that which they see to be good.

RICHARD HOOKER

Ecclesiastical Polity


It is only the superior man who can make a right choice.

CONFUCIUS

attributed, Day's Collacon


How could a choice be called free when its consequences are unknown at the time of our choosing?

KENNETH BURKE

Towards a Better Life


A victim of collision on the open sea
Nobody ever said that life was free
Sank, swam, go down with the ship
But use your freedom of choice

DEVO

"Freedom of Choice"