3,997 Quotes About Choices


  • Author Erik Erikson
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    Adolescents need freedom to choose, but not so much freedom that they cannot, in fact, make a choice.

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  • Author Epicurus
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    Pleasure is the first good. It is the beginning of every choice and every aversion. It is the absence of pain in the body and of troubles in the soul.

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  • Author Epictetus
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    If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things. Don't wish to be thought to know anything; and even if you appear to be somebody important to others, distrust yourself. For, it is difficult to both keep your faculty of choice in a state conformable to nature, and at the same time acquire external things. But while you are careful about the one, you must of necessity neglect the other

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  • Author Epictetus
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    Don’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control

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  • Author Epictetus
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    Sickness is a hindrance to the body, but not to your ability to choose, unless that is your choice. Lameness is a hindrance to the leg, but not to your ability to choose. Say this to yourself with regard to everything that happens, then you will see such obstacles as hindrances to something else, but not to yourself.

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  • Author Henry B. Eyring
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    For us to know that the Book of Mormon is true, we must read it and make the choice found in Moroni: pray to know if it is true. When we have done that, we can testify from personal experience to our friends that they can make that choice and know the same truth.

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