"Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present."
Jim Rohn
100 Top-Notch Quotes about Choice
"Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both."
Tryon Edwards
(was born in 1809 and died in 1894.) He was an American theologian, best known for compiling the "New Dictionary of Thoughts", a book of quotations.
"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them."
Khalil Gibran
(January 6, 1883 – April 10, 1931) also known as Kahlil Gibran, was a Lebanese American artist, poet, and writer. Gibran is the third best-selling poet of all time, behind Shakespeare and Lao-Tzu.
"We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over."
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
(June 24, 1842 – after 1913) was an American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist and satirist.
"Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow the skunks to choose the weapons."
Lester Robert Bittel
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"It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust."
Samuel Johnson
(18 September 1709 [O.S. 7 September] – 13 December 1784) often referred to as Dr Johnson, was a British author who made
lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. Johnson has been described as "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history".
"If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise."
Robert Jordan Fritz
(born 1943 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) is an author, composer, filmmaker, and management consultant. He is known for his development of "structural dynamics," the study of how structural relationships
impact behavior from individuals to organizations."
"So far about morals. I know only that what is moral, is that what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after."
Ernest Miller Hemingway
(July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American author and journalist. His distinctive writing style, characterized by economy and understatement, influenced 20th-century fiction, as did his life of adventure and public image.
"The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crises maintain their neutrality."
Dante Alighieri
(May/June c.1265 – September 14, 1321) commonly known as Dante, was an Italian poet of the Middle Ages.
"When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice."
William James
(January 11, 1842 – August 26, 1910) was a pioneering American psychologist and philosopher who was trained as a medical doctor. He wrote influential books on the young science of psychology, educational psychology,
psychology of religious experience and mysticism, and on the philosophy of pragmatism.
"While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions."
Stephen R. Covey
(born October 24, 1932) wrote the best-selling book, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.
