choice Quotes

Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as among the Egyptians, to succeed to his father's craft.

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

I just hate meetings. Though it's true that once you've made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don't want to seize every opportunity to do so.

I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.

I have begun several projects which were never completed, not necessarily because they failed, but because I got interested in other things.

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.