Quotes about Choice
The majority of mankind would seem to be beguiled into error by pleasure, which, not being really a good, yet seems to be so. So that they indiscriminately choose as good whatsoever gives them pleasure, while they avoid all pain alike as evil.
— Aristotle
A man is the origin of his action.
— Aristotle
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.
— Aristotle
A man married to the right woman will be happy. A man married to the wrong woman will be a philosopher.
— Aristotle
What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
— Aristotle
Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.
— Aristotle
All is foreseen, but freedom of choice is given.
— Akiva ben Joseph
My brother and I were both good at science, and we were both good at English literature. Either one of us could have gone either way.
— Margaret Atwood
We believe in God when for one reason or another we choose to do so. We believe God when somehow we run into God in a way that by and large leaves us no choice to do otherwise.
— Frederick Buechner
Our destiny is largely in our hands.
— Frederick Douglass
I say , this picture sometimes appalled us, and made us rather bear those ills we had. Than fly to others, that we knew not of.
— Frederick Douglass
Grace does not work like a penny in a slot machine. Grace will move you only when you want it to move you, and only when you let it move you. The supernatural order supposes the freedom of the natural order, but it does not destroy it.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen