Choice Quotes

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice – their choice.

Man must choose whether to be rich in things or in the freedom to use them.

If decisions were a choice between alternatives, decisions would come easy. Decision is the selection and formulation of alternatives.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

Any path is only a path. There is no affront to yourself or others in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you to do. But your decision to keep on the path or to leave it must be free of fear and ambition. I warn you, look at every path closely and […]

God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please; you can never have both.

Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else.

He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.

If thou must choose between the chances, choose the odd; Read the New Yorker; trust in God; And take short views.

When I look back at the three or four choices in my life which have been decisive, I find that, at the time I made them, I had very little sense of the seriousness of what I was doing and only later did I discover what had seemed an unimportant brook was, in fact, a […]