"The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself."
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin
100 Top-Notch Quotes about Choice
"It's choice--not chance--that determines your destiny."
Jean Nidetch
(born 1923, Brooklyn, New York) is the founder of the Weight Watchers organization.
"Every choice you make has an end result."
Hilary Hinton "Zig" Ziglar
(born 6 November 1926) is an American author, salesperson, and motivational speaker.
"There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles."
Stephen R. Covey
(born October 24, 1932) wrote the best-selling book, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.
"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
(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.
"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
(January 17, 1706 [January 6, 1705 – April 17, 1790) was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A noted
polymath, Franklin was a leading author and printer, satirist, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. As a scientist, he was a major figure in the American Enlightenment and the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity.
"A pessimist is one who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both."
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
(16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer, poet, and prominent aesthete. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his many epigrams, his plays which are still revived, and the tragedy of his imprisonment and early death.
"You can only stumble if you're moving."
Roberto Críspulo Goizueta
(November 18, 1931 – October 18, 1997) was Chairman, Director, and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of The Coca-Cola Company from August 1980 until his death in October 1997.
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
(January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945) also known by his initials, FDR, was the 32nd President of the United States
and a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the
United States during a time of worldwide economic crisis and world war.
"Decisions are the hardest thing to make especially when it is a choice between where you should be and where you want to be."
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"May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears."
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
(18 July 1918- 5 December 2013) served as resident of South Africa from 1994 to 1999, and was the first South African president to be elected in a fully representative democratic election. Before his presidency, Mandela was an anti-apartheid activist. In 1962 he was arrested and convicted of sabotage and other charges, and sentenced to life in prison. Mandela served 27 years in prison, spending many of these years on Robben Island.
