Choice Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

46 Choice Quotes
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“Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.”
Shaquille ONeal Quotes
“There are always two choices. Two paths to take. One is easy. And its only reward is that it's easy.”
Joanne Kathleen Rowling Quotes
“I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude.”
Robert Fritz Quotes
“Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.”
Buddha Quotes
“Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.”
Confucius Quotes
“If I were not Alexander, then should wish to be Diogenes.”
Alexander, the Great Quotes
Source: to Diogenes when asked to stand out of his sunshine, in Plutarch's "Life of Alexander"
“But one thing is needful: and Math hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.”
Bible Quotes
Source: Luke (ch. X, v. 42)
“For many are called, but few are chosen.”
Bible Quotes
Source: Matthew (ch. XXII, v. 14)
“He that will not when he may, When he will he shall have nay.”
Robert Burton Quotes
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. III, sect. 2, mem. 5, subs. 5), quoted
“Better to sink beneath the shock Than moulder piecemeal on the rock!”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes
Source: The Giaour (l. 969)
“Of harmes two the less is for to chose.”
Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
Source: Troilus and Criseyde (bk. II, l, 470)
“What voice did on my spirit fall, Peschiera, when thy bridge I crost? 'Tis better to have fought and lost That never to have fought at all!”
Arthur Hugh Clough Quotes
Source: Peschiera
“Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods.”
Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
Source: Lacon (p. 362)
“Guess, if you can, and choose, if you dare. [Lat., Devine, si tu peux, et choisis, si tu l'oses.]”
Pierre Corneille Quotes
Source: Heraclius (IV, 4)
“The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.”
George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross) Quotes
Source: Daniel Deronda (bk. VI, ch. XLII)
“God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Source: Essay--Intellect
“Betwixt the devil and the deep sea.”
Desiderius Gerhard Erasmus Quotes
Source: Adagia (ch. III, cent. VI, 94), quoted from the Greek
“Between the victim and the stone knife. [Lat., Inter sacrum et sazim.]”
Desiderius Gerhard Erasmus Quotes
Source: Letter to Pirkheimer
“Submit or resign. [Lat., Se soumettre ou se demettre.]”
Desiderius Gerhard Erasmus Quotes
Source: Letter to Pirkheimer
“Where passion leads or prudence points the way.”
Robert Lowth Quotes
Source: The Choice of Hercules (1)
“Rather than be less Car'd not to be at all.”
John Milton Quotes
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. II, l. 47)
“Who would not, finding way, break loose from hell, . . . . And boldly venture to whatever place Farthest from pain?”
John Milton Quotes
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. IV, l. 889)
“The difficulty in life is the choice.”
George A. Moore Quotes
Source: The Bending of the Bough (act IV)
“Of fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die.”
Alexander Pope Quotes
Source: Homer's Odyssey (bk. XXII, l. 79)
“Between two stools one sits on the ground. [Fr., S'asseoir entre deux selles le cul a terre.]”
Francois Rabelais Quotes
Source: Gargantua (bk. I, ch. II)