972 quotes found
“You can choose daily to brace up and face the harsh realities of life . . . Or while away the days that come by daydreaming . . . Better still, you can make your dreams your realities.”
“Success is a choice, not an option.”
“I'm in a hole because at some point I found a shovel and started digging. Maybe I should trade my shovels for ladders and start climbing.”
“If I simply look at the map that Ive so tediously created, it will explain why Im laying at the bottom of this cliff looking up.”
“It is difficult to make the right choice if you fear choosing wrongly.”
“Choice is the grease in the gears of success.”
“But the Hebrew word, the word timshelThou mayest that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if Thou ma...”
“Of course. That's what people do in a disordered world, a world of freedom and choice: they leave when they want. They disappear, they come back, they leave again. And you are left to pick up the p...”
“Life calls the tune, we dance.”
“I want him to live if HE wants to live. If he doesn't, then by forcing him to carry on, you, me..... we become just another shitty bunch of people taking away his choices.”
“The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice - their choice.”
“There is always a choice." "You mean I could choose certain death?" "A choice nevertheless, or perhaps an alternative. You see I believe in freedom. Not many people do, although they will of course...”
“Those rabbits stopped fighting the system, because it was easier to take the loss of freedom, to forget what it was like before the fence kept them in, than to be out there in the world struggling ...”
“Wings are freedom only when they are wide open in flight. On one's back they are a heavy weight.”
“He's in pain. I am, too. It strikes me that perhaps this is part of what we are fighting to choose. Which pain we feel.”
“There are but few important events in the affairs of men brought about by their own choice.”
“There is so much freedom in not having to choose.”
“Ultimately, you are defined by your kindness, compassion, passion, and choice.”
“What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing.”
“It must be something voluntary, something self induced - like getting drunk, or talking yourself into believing some piece of foolishness because it happens to be in the Scriptures. And then look a...”
