Browsing Quotes With Tag: choice (72)
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If Tom had been a grate and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and that play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
Speaker: Mark TwainSource: Predictable IrrationalityPosted: 08 Feb 2014 at 7:21 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
To action alone hast thou a right and never at all to its fruits; let not the fruits of action be thy motive; neither let there be in thee any attachment to inaction.
Source: Bhagavad GitaPosted: 14 Mar 2010 at 9:14 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance
Speaker: Hunter Stockton ThompsonPosted: 25 Dec 2009 at 9:19 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding out the true path for ourselves and fearlessly following it.
Speaker: Mohandas GandhiPosted: 31 Aug 2009 at 8:53 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The evidence is in, and you are the verdict.
Speaker: AnonymousSource: bird by birdPosted: 16 Aug 2009 at 12:55 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Sometimes hidden from me
in daily custom and in trust,
so that I live by you unaware
as by the beating of my heart,Suddenly you flare in my sight,
a wild rose blooming at the edge
of thicket, grace and light
where yesterday was only shade,and once again I am blessed, choosing
again what I chose before.Speaker: Wendell BerrySource: bird by birdPosted: 16 Aug 2009 at 12:44 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
In vain do they talk of happiness, who never suppressed an impulse for a principle.
Speaker: Marvin J. AshtonPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 11:39 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
What win I, if I gain the thing I seek?
A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy.
Who buys a minute’s worth to wail a week?
Or sells eternity to get a toy?
For one sweet grape who will the vine destroy?
Or what fond beggar, but to tough the crown,
Would with the scepter straight be stricken down?Speaker: William ShakespeareSource: Rape of the LockPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 9:14 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
Speaker: Peter UstinovSource: http://www.google.com/igPosted: 06 Sep 2008 at 9:57 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Don’t confuse the complex with the difficult. Most situations are simple – many are just emotionally difficult to act upon. The problem and the solution are usually obvious and simple. It’s not that you don’t know what to do. Of course you do. You are just terrified that you might end up worse off than you are now.
Speaker: Timothy FerrissSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:47 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains.
Speaker: Thomas H. HuxleySource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:40 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
How can you call yourself a free man when your weakness has brought you to this? If a man has in himself the soul of a slave will he not become one no matter what his birth, even as water seeks its level? If a man has within him the soul of a free man, will he not become respected and honored in his own city in spite of his misfortune?
Speaker: George S. ClasonPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 7:29 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
In those things toward which we exerted our best endeavors we succeeded. The Gods were content to let us continue thus.
Speaker: George S. ClasonPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 6:28 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
Speaker: AesopPosted: 23 Aug 2008 at 10:38 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Edison once was asked how he accomplished so much. He said, ‘It is deceptively simple. You and I have eighteen hours in a day in which we do something. You spend that eighteen hours doing a number of unrelated things. I spend it doing just one thing, and some of my work is bound to amount to something.
Speaker: Sterling W. SillPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:43 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Life is the acceptance of responsibilities, or their evasion. It is the business of meeting obligations or avoiding them. To every man the choice is continually being offered, and by the manner of his choosing you may fairly measure him.
Speaker: Ben Amos WilliamsPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:26 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You can either complain that the roses have thorns, or thank God that the thorns have roses.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:16 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Indecision is fatal. It is better to make the wrong decision than to build up a habit of indecision. If you’re wallowing in indecision, you certainly can’t act – and action is the basis of success.
Speaker: Marie Beyon RayPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:01 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You seldom get what you go after unless you know in advance what you want. Indecision has often given an advantage to the other fellow because he did his thinking beforehand.
Speaker: Maurice SwitzerPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:00 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
Speaker: George EliotPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 2:59 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!