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 | Freedom is the power to choose our own chains. — Jean Jacques Rousseau, 1712-1778, Swiss-French philosopher 32 likes |
 | The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment. — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor 13 likes |
 | Sometimes following your heart means losing your mind. — Ernest Hemingway, 1899-1961, American writer, Nobel 1954 8 likes |
 | A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. — Dwight Eisenhower, 1890-1969, American general & President 8 likes |
 | Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. — John Kenneth Galbraith, 1908-2006, American-Canadian economist (Letter to John F. Kennedy ,2 March 1962) 7 likes |
 | Why can’t I try on different lives, like dresses, to see which one fits me and is most becoming? — Sylvia Plath, 1932-1963, American poet & writer 6 likes |
 | All through life, be sure and put your feet in the right place, and then stand firm. — Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865, American President 6 likes |
 | I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become. — Karl Jung, 1875-1961, Swiss psychiatrist 6 likes |
 | Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least. — Wolfgang Goethe, 1749-1832, German poet & philosopher 5 likes |
 | The ends of the earth, the depths of the sea, the darkness of time, you have chosen all three. — E. M. Forster, 1879-1970, British writer 5 likes |
 | First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent. — Michael Caine, 1933-, English actor 5 likes |
 | When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself. — Anton Chekhov, 1860-1904, Russian writer 5 likes |
 | Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner. — Somerset Maugham, 1874-1965, British writer 4 likes |
 | Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents. — Charles de Gaulle, 1890-1970, French President 4 likes |
 | The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another. — William James, 1842-1910, American philosopher 4 likes |
 | How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone. — Coco Chanel, 1883-1971, French fashion designer 4 likes |
 | Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial. — Henry Kissinger, 1923-2023, American politician 4 likes |
 | If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city. — Charles Caleb Colton, 1780-1832, English cleric & writer 3 likes |
| To govern is always to choose among disadvantages. — Charles de Gaulle, 1890-1970, French President 3 likes |
 | As you climb the ladder of success, be sure it's leaning against the right building. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr., 1940-2021, American self-help writer 3 likes |
 | We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. — Khalil Gibran, 1883-1931, Lebanese-American poet & philosopher 3 likes |
 | If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas. — Jean Cocteau, 1889-1963, French artist 3 likes |
 | Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose. — Richard Bach, 1936-, American writer 3 likes |
 | It is the woman who chooses the man who will choose her. — Paul Lefevre Geraldy, 1885-1983, French writer 3 likes |
 | Every choice you make has an end result. — Zig Ziglar, 1926-2012, American self-help writer 2 likes |
 | Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black. — Henry Ford, 1863-1947, American industrialist, founder of FORD 2 likes |
| It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. — Somerset Maugham, 1874-1965, British writer 2 likes |
 | Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice. — Ayn Rand, 1905-1982, American writer & philosopher 2 likes |
 | Necessity relieves us from the embarrassment of choice. — Vauvenargues, 1715-1747, French author of maxims 2 likes |
 | Learn how to separate the majors and the minors. A lot of people don’t do well simply because they major in minor things. — Jim Rohn, 1930-2009, American self-help speker 2 likes |
| When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice. — William James, 1842-1910, American philosopher 2 likes |
 | My husband said it was him or the cat. I miss him sometimes. — Zsa Zsa Gabor, 1917-2016, Hungarian-American actress 2 likes |
| As a woman, you have to choose between your fanny or your face. I chose my face. — Zsa Zsa Gabor, 1917-2016, Hungarian-American actress 2 likes |
| You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past. — Richard Bach, 1936-, American writer 2 likes |
 | I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellect. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 2 likes |
 | There are no easy choices. Easy choices are long gone. — Alan Greenspan, 1926-, American economist 2 likes |
 | To govern is to choose. — Duc de Levis, 1764-1830, French politician & author of maxims 2 likes |
 | Wars are not won by fighting battles; wars are won by choosing battles. — George S. Patton, 1885-1945, American general 1 likes |
 | Those two in Paradise had two choices: happiness without freedom or freedom without happiness. There was no third choice. |
 | The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn. |
 | The devil can and does enter only Hell, the angel can and does enter only Paradise. The man, wherever he wants! |
 | One should choose for a wife only such a woman as he would choose for a friend, were she a man. |
 | Man has a choice and it’s a choice that makes him a man. |
 | Sooner or later...one has to take sides – if one is to remain human. |
 | The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice. |
| Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices. |
 | How one encounters reality is a choice. |
 | The only principle I can see in this life, is that one must forfeit the less for the greater. |
 | It is a shame that we have to choose between two such second-class countries as the Soviet Union and the United States. |
 | A plan relieves you of the torment of choice. — Saul Bellow, 1914-2005, Canadian-American writer, Nobel 1976 |
 | Maybe a person’s time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food. |
| I’m here not because I am supposed to be here, or because I’m trapped here, but because I’d rather be with you than anywhere else in the world. |
 | Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know. |
 | “I wear the chain I forged in life,” replied the Ghost. “I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.” |
Bible Quotes
 | But test them all; hold on to what is good. — Epistles of Paul ‐ 1 Thessalonians 5:21 4 likes |
Quotes in Verse
 | Neither way is better. Both ways are necessary. It is also necessary To make a choice between them. — T. S. Eliot, 1888-1965, British poet, Nobel 1948 2 likes |
Funny Quotes
 | We had a choice between Democrats who couldn't learn from the past and Republicans who couldn't stop living in it. — P.J. O’ Rourke, 1947-2022, American columnist & writer 3 likes |
 | For me, it's always easy to choose between the Ultimate, the Infinite, and the Chocolate. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-2025, British cartoonist & epigrammatist |
Ancient Greek
 | Nobody lives the life he chooses to live. Βιοί γαρ ουδείς όν προαιρείται βίον. — Menander, 4th cent. BC, Ancient Greek dramatist (New Comedy) 29 likes |
 | Better a bad life than a good death. Κακώς ζην κρείσσον ή καλώς θανείν. — Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Iphigeneia at Aulis 8 likes |
 | Prefer loss to dishonest profit; the one will make you sad once, the other for ever. Ζημίαν αιρού μάλλον ή κέρδος αισχρόν. Το μεν γαρ άπαξ λυπήσει, το δε αεί. — Chilon of Sparta, 6th cent. BC, one of the 7 sages of Ancient Greece 4 likes |
 | A plausible war is preferable to a dishonorable peace. Πόλεμος ένδοξος, ειρήνης αισχράς αιρετώτερος. — Demosthenes, 384-322 BC, Ancient Athenian & statesman orator 3 likes |
 | I would rather be eaten by a lion than by a fox. Φαγέτω με λέων και μη αλώπηξ. — Aesop, 620-560 BC, Ancient Greek fabulist 3 likes |
 | With two not even Hercules [got involved]. Προς δύο ουδέ Ηρακλής. — Archilochus, 725-650 BC, Ancient Greek lyric poet 3 likes |
 | If you marry a beautiful woman you will share her, if you marry an ugly one you will be punished. Αν μεν καλήν, έξεις κοινήν, αν δε αισχράν, έξεις ποινήν. — Antisthenes, 445-360 BC, Ancient Greek Cynic philosopher 3 likes |
Proverbs
 | A door must be either shut or open. 2 likes |
Special Quotes
 | Better to be hated by the Turks than being loved by the Germans. — Croatian proverb 3 likes |
Movie Quotes
 | Between two evils, I generally like to pick the one I never tried before. — from the film Klondike Annie (1936) 7 likes |
