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A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.

—Lord Falkland

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An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.

—Karl Kraus

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The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

—John H. Patterson

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A pessimist, confronted with two bad choices, chooses both.

—John Dewey

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It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

—Jewish Proverb

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Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.

—J. K. Rowling

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The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.

—J. K. Rowling

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A person has three choices in life. You can swim against the tide and get exhausted, or you can tread water and let the tide sweep you away, or you can swim with the tide, and let it take you where it wants you to go.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

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Our choices add up; each one influences others, and cumulatively a series of delightful short-term choices can leave us much worse off in the long run.

—Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

—Ben Stein

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The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.

—Abbe' D'Allanival

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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

—Joseph Stalin

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When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

—Johnny Carson

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

—John Scalzi

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I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

—Isaac Asimov

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