Quotes about Choice
How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that not every 'should' is a compulsion, and not every 'like' is a high morality and true freedom.
— Karl Rahner
Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Adam did not want the apple for the apple's sake; he wanted it because it was forbidden.
— Mark Twain
When you force a man to act against his own choice and judgment, it's his thinking that you want him to suspend.
— Ayn Rand
Good intentions, regular worship, Bible study, do not prevent blindness. Part of our sinful nature instinctively chooses to see what we want to see and to ignore what we want to ignore.
— David Platt
God could have created us to be automatons who were always choosing the right side, making the right decision. It is an incredible thing, God said "I want persons" who therefore have freedom.
— Desmond Tutu
Once you reach a certain age, you're either slowly dying or slowly being reborn. I want to choose the latter.
— Marianne Williamson
True Wealth is being able to do what I want, when I want. If I can do that, I am wealthy.
— JD Roth
The gods throw the dice and they don't ask whether we want to be in the game or not.
— Paulo Coelho
We have to ask ourselves, 'Am I really trying to discern God's will, or determine whether I want to do it?'
— Erwin McManus
Do what you want, do what you will, do what you have to, do what you think you cannot.
— Alice Hoffman
Most people are as happy as they want to be.
— Abraham Lincoln