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.
Choice Quotes
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.
Reality confronts man with a great many “musts,” but all of them are conditional; the formula of realistic necessity is: “You must, if ” and the “if” stands for man’s choice.
A society which is clamoring for choice, which is filled with many articulate groups, each urging its own brand of salvation, its own variety of economic philosophy, will give each new generation no peace until all have chosen or gone under, unable to bear the conditions of choice.
There’s always something to suggest that you’ll never be who you wanted to be. Your choice is to take it or keep on moving.
