Choice Quotes
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"I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies."
-Oscar Wilde
-Oscar Wilde
"Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing."
-Horace Mann
-Horace Mann
"The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose."
-Thornton Wilder
-Thornton Wilder
"The choice open to us is not between a system in which everybody will get what he deserves according to some absolute and universal standard of right, and one where the individual shares are determined partly by accident or good will or chance, but b."
-Friedrich August Hayek
-Friedrich August Hayek
"It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
-Joanne Kathleen Rowling
-Joanne Kathleen Rowling
"Falling ill is not something that happens to us, it is a choice we make as a result of things happening to us."
-Jonathan Miller
-Jonathan Miller
"I don't always wear underwear. When I'm in the heat, especially, I can't wear it. Like, if I'm wearing a flower dress, why do I have to wear underwear?"
-Naomi Campbell
-Naomi Campbell
"We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves."
-Thomas Merton
-Thomas Merton
"Responsible choice involves consequences, not the least of which are relinquishments all along our way."
-Marsha Sinetar
-Marsha Sinetar
"Any change, any loss, does not make us victims. Others can shake you, surprise you, disappoint you, but they can't prevent you from acting, from taking the situation you're presented with and moving on. No matter where you are in life, no matter what your situation, you can always do something. You always have a choice and the choice can be power."
-Blaine Lee
-Blaine Lee
"First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent."
-Michael Caine
-Michael Caine
"If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them."
-Jane Fonda
-Jane Fonda
"Let men decide firmly what they will not do, and they will be free to do vigorously what they ought to do."
-Mencius
-Mencius
"My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage."
-Peggy Noonan
-Peggy Noonan
"And if I have my choice between a pennant and a triple crown, I'll take the pennant every time."
-Carl Yastrzemski
-Carl Yastrzemski
"I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime."
-Elisabeth Kubler Ross
-Elisabeth Kubler Ross
"With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice."
-Oprah Winfrey
-Oprah Winfrey
"Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy."
-J. K. Rowling
-J. K. Rowling
"Obviously, it's a lot of bodies in a classroom, but we don't have any choice, ... We just have to kind of make do."
-John Atkinson
-John Atkinson
