quotations about choice
When you talk about choice
As if it's something we were born with
This choice is for some but not for everyone
THE BLOW MONKEYS
"Choice?"
Choice is nothing in itself; everything depends on what one is able to choose.
HAROLD O. J. BROWN
"The Language of Life"
Choice is the declaration by self that a certain ideal of self shall be realized.
JOHN DEWEY
Psychology
Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless.
THOMAS CARLYLE
Past and Present
The more you pick and choose, the more you stand to lose.
YIDDISH PROVERB
Your capacity to say "No" determines your capacity to say "Yes" to greater things.
E. STANLEY JONES
attributed, Distilled Wisdom
A man has to know he had a choice before he can enjoy what he chose.
KEN KESEY
Sometimes a Great Notion
Never choose your women or linen by candlelight.
FRENCH PROVERB
No one learns to make right decisions without being free to make wrong ones.
KENNETH SOLLITT
attributed, The Westminster Collection of Christian Quotations
We are free up to the point of choice, and then the choice controls the chooser.
MARY CROWLEY
String of Pearls
The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
DAVID RUSSELL
attributed, Quote Unquote
Exercising your own Freedom of Choice in a way that limits anyone else's Freedom of Choice is a direct crime against the Purpose of the Universe.
THOMAS J. CHALKO
The Freedom of Choice
We're not hurtling down a pre-determined path towards a foregone conclusion. We people, all of us, we make thousands of decisions a day, little ones, tiny ones... You take all those choices times all the people in the world...and you have to conclude the future's not set. It can't be. And that's the best part about being alive: it's always new, it's always surprising!
JOE DUBOIS
"Allison Rolen Got Married", Medium
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
speech before the Virginia Democratic Association, Feb. 22, 1899
I'm trying to free your mind ... but I can only show you the door. You're the one that has to walk through it.
MORPHEUS
The Matrix
The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
IRVIN D. YALOM
When Nietzsche Wept
There are no safe choices. Only other choices.
LIBBA BRAY
A Great and Terrible Beauty
When you make a choice, you change the future.
DEEPAK CHOPRA
The Seven Spiritual Laws for Parents
There are times when the only choices you have left are bad ones.
AGENT PHILLIP BROYLES
"Jacksonville", Fringe
The choosy sometimes get the dregs.
JAPANESE PROVERB