Choice Quotes

The history of free men is never really written by chance - but by choice - their choice.

Home is home even for those who aspire to serve wider interests and who have established their home of choice in distant regions.

Gandhi himself never ruled out violence absolutely and unreservedly. He conceded the necessity of arms in certain situations. He said, "Where choice is set between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence... I prefer to use arms in defense of honor rather than remain the vile witness of dishonor.

From the beginning, Mandela and Tambo was besieged with clients. We were not the only African lawyers in South Africa, but we were the only firm of African lawyers. For Africans, we were the firm of first choice and last resort.

When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.

By endowing us with freedom, God relinquished a measure of his own sovereignty and imposed certain limitations upon himself. If his children are free, they must do his will by a voluntary choice

We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent coannihilation. We must move past indecision to action.

I see this war as an unjust, evil, and futile war. I preach to you today on the war in Vietnam because my conscience leaves me with no other choice.

Today it is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence; it is either nonviolence or nonexistence.

You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war.

The choice was clearly open: crush them with vain and unstinted force, or try to give them what they want. These were the only alternatives, and though each had ardent advocates, most people were unprepared for either. Here indeed was the Irish spectre - horrid and inexorcisable.

Picture me inside the misery of poverty, no man alive has ever witnessed struggles ive survived, praying hard for better days promised to hold on me and my dogs aint have a choice but to hold on.

You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have.

All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love positivity and gratitude that things aren't worse or hate negativity and bitterness that things aren't better ...I choose love positivity and gratitude that things aren't worse.

All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate...I choose love.

Life imposes things on you that you can't control, but you still have the choice of how you're going to live through this.

Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying around, I'd rather lie around. No contest.

I know we make our own reality, and we always have a choice, but how much is preordained? Is there always a fork in the road, and are there two preordained paths that are equally preordained? There could be hundreds of paths where one could go this way or that way -- there's a chance, and it's very strange sometimes.

I've made two 'discoveries' in my life: Paul McCartney and Yoko Ono. I think that's a pretty damned good choice.

Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.