Choice Quotes

Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.

H. L. Mencken

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.

Samuel Johnson

The billion billion paths of his life lay open before him, waiting for his first choices, for the first changes in the world around him to eliminate a million futures every second.

Orson Scott Card

Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.

Bertrand Russell

Our generation, like the one before us, must choose. Without the threat of the Cold War, without the pain of economic ruin, without the fresh memory of World War II's slaughter, it is tempting to pursue our private agendas -- to simply sit back and let history unfold. We must resist the temptation.

William Jefferson Clinton

We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Philip Johnson

It is not something I must do but something I want to do

James Fixx

The perfect way is without difficulty, for it avoids picking and choosing. Only when you stop liking and disliking will all be clearly understood. Be not concerned with right or wrong, for the conflict between right and wrong is the sickness of the mind.

SengTs'an

A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.

Gene Roddenberry

People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be -- whether they will admit that or not.

Earl Nightingale

He tells himself over and over again in any choice presented to him, 'Prefer the hard.' This holds good not only in great matters, but also in very small, in fighting by the frozen Danube and in starting the day early.

Marcus Aurelius

Refuse the evil, and choose the good. Isaiah 7:15

Bible

I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: Therefore choose life. Deuteronomy 30:19

Bible

Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.

Jerry Garcia

The difficulty in life is the choice.

George Moore

When I have to choose between two evils, I always try to pick the one I haven't tried before.

Mae West

Inhabit ourselves that we may indeed do what we want to do.

Mary Caroline Richards

Seeing the light is a choice, not seeing the light is no choice.

Doug Horton

Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?This is commonly misquotes as You can't have you're cake and eat it, too.

John Heywood, John Heywood's Pro

You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.

Deepak Chopra