He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation. He who chooses his plan for himself, employs all his faculties. He must use observation to see, reasoning and judgment to foresee, activity to gather materials for decision, discrimination to decide, and when he has decided, firmness and self-control to hold to his deliberate decision.
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America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.
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Responsibility begins with the willingness to be cause in the matter of one's life. Ultimately, it is a context from which one chooses to live. Responsibility is not burden, fault, praise, blame, credit, shame or guilt. In responsibility, there is no evaluation of good or bad, right or wrong. There is simply what's so, and your stand. Being responsible starts with the willingness to deal with a situation from the view of life that you are the generator of what you do, what you have and what you are. That is not the truth. It is a place to stand. No one can make you responsible, nor can you impose responsibility on another. It is a grace you give yourself - an empowering context that leaves you with a say in the matter of life.
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Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell.
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Willingly no one chooses the yoke of slavery.
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Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.
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There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so.
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Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
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One of the proud joys of the man of letters --if that man of letters is an artist is to feel within himself the power to immortalize at will anything he chooses to immortalize. Insignificant though he may be, he is conscious of possessing a creative divinity. God creates lives; the man of imagination creates fictional lives which may make a profound and as it were more living impression on the world's memory.
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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.
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Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.
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Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.
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He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.
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A pessimist, confronted with two bad choices, chooses both.
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He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end.
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We do not have to live in an America that accepts poverty as a fact of life or chooses to ignore it.
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No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness.
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John 7:17:
Anyone who chooses to do the will of God will find out whether my teaching comes from God or whether I speak on my own.
(NIV)
If any man desires to do His will (God's pleasure), he will know (have the needed illumination to recognize, and can tell for himself) whether the teaching is from God or whether I am speaking from Myself and of My own accord and on My own authority.
(AMP)
If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.
(KJV)
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Will mankind never learn that policy is not morality,—that it never secures any moral right, but considers merely what is expedient? chooses...
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You can choose your behavior, the world chooses your consequences.
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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids
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A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses.
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James 4:4:
You adulterous people, don't you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.
(NIV)
You [are like] unfaithful wives [having illicit love affairs with the world and breaking your marriage vow to God]! Do you not know that being the world's friend is being God's enemy? So whoever chooses to be a friend of the world takes his stand as an enemy of God.
(AMP)
Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
(KJV)
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A pessimist is one who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
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No poet sings because he must sing. At least no great poet does. A great poet sings because he chooses to sing.
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He never chooses an opinion, he just wears whatever happens to be in style.
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A coincidence is a small miracle in which God chooses to remain anonymous.
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He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style.
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The fool who has not sense to discriminate between what is good and what is bad is well nigh as dangerous as the man who does discriminate and yet chooses the bad
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Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels.
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