Thus we come to the fourth law of success and happiness for I gave you one more power, a power so great that not even my angels possess it. I gave you – the power to choose. With this gift I placed you even above my angels – for angels are not free to choose […]
Choice Quotes
Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be; custom will soon render it easy and agreeable.
I believe in the doctrine of election, because I am quite sure that if God had not chosen me I would never would have chosen him; and I am sure he chose me before I was born, or else he never would have chose me afterward.
When you must choose between speed and direction, choose direction. Going faster and faster will do you no good if the destination is not where you want to end up.
Mister, there’s nothing I’ve got to do except die.
You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
Life or death is man’s only fundamental alternative. To live is his basic act of choice. If he chooses to live, a rational ethics will tell him what principles of action are required to implement his choice.
The choice is yours. You hold the tiller. You can steer the course you choose in the direction of where you want to be – today, tomorrow, or in the distant time to come.
In literature, as in love, we are astonished at the choice made by other people.