Quotes about Choice
This warp seemed necessity; and here, thought I, with my own hand I ply my own shuttle and weave my own destiny into these unalterable threads.
— Herman Melville
Though I cannot tell why this was exactly; yet, now that I recall all the circumstances, I think I can see a little into the springs and motives which being cunningly presented to me under various disguises, induced me to set about performing the part I did, besides cajoling me into the delusion that it was a choice resulting from my own unbiased freewill and discriminating judgment.
— Herman Melville
I'd rather be killed by you than kept alive by any other man
— Herman Melville
Money is simply a tool to give you choices.
— Hill Harper
You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It's your call.
— Wayne Dyer
True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will.
— Jonathan Edwards
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