choice quotes

• Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition though in hell: Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven. (John Milton) [choice]
• Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power. (John Adams) [power/choice/power]
• Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses. In that choice we change our every experience of life! (Greg Anderson) [power/choice/change/experience]
• At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice. (Maya Angelou) [life/choice]
• For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve. ( Aristotle) [choice]
• Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice. (Leon Blum) [/courage/choice]
• The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion. (Nadia Boulanger) [choice/love/pleasure]
• In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections; keeping inseparable and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars. (Edmund Burke) [choice/blood/family/state]
• Of neighborhoods, benevolence is the most beautiful. How can the man be considered wise who when he had the choice does not settle in benevolence. ( Confucius) [choice]
• Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends. (Jacques Delille) [chance/parents/choice]
• The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action. (John Dewey) [choice/action]
• Love is not in our choice but in our fate. (John Dryden) [love/choice]
• Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind. (Max Eastman) [choice/mind]
• The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. (George Eliot) [growth/human/choice]
• The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory. (George Eliot) [god/action/choice/memory]
• Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [mind/choice/truth/take]
• We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade? (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [choice/excuse/business/evil]
• Fervor is the weapon of choice of the impotent. (Frantz Fanon) [choice]
• Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first. (Benjamin Franklin) [choice/repetition/life]
• In the usual (though certainly not in every) public decision on economic policy, the choice is between courses that are almost equally good or equally bad. It is the narrowest decisions that are most ardently debated. If the world is lucky enough to enjoy peace, it may even one day make the discovery, to the horror of doctrinaire free-enterprisers and doctrinaire planners alike, that what is called capitalism and what is called socialism are both capable of working quite well. (John Kenneth Galbraith) [decision/choice//day]
• We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause. (William James) [choice]
• True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice. (Ben Jonson) [happiness/choice]
• Then read from the treasured volume the poem of thy choice, and lend to the rhyme of the poet the beauty of thy voice. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) [choice/rhyme/beauty]
• In literature, as in love, we are astonished at the choice made by other people. (Andre Maurois) [literature/love/choice/people]
• At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless. (Jean-Pierre Melville) [choice/choice/death/choice]
• Reason also is choice. (John Milton) [choice]
• The difficulty in life is the choice. (George Moore) [life/choice]
• A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. (Oscar Wilde) [choice/enemies]
• A pessimist is one who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both. (Oscar Wilde) [choice]
• God made a very obvious choice when he made me voluptuous; why would I go against what he decided for me? My limbs work, so I'm not going to complain about the way my body is shaped. (Drew Barrymore) [god/choice/soul & body]
• Womanhood is a whole different thing from girlhood. Girlhood is a gift...Womanhood is a choice (Tori Amos) [thing/choice]

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