Quotes Tagged "choice"

But doesn't it come out here that knowledge is related to a decision?

True knowledge makes a man reject the wrong , by chosen what is right.

You must choose what you do with your time. You must not just do things because everybody is doing them.

We can choose to live under the rulership of God or under the rulership of the devil.

God calls ignorance the rejection of knowledge, which simply means it is actually a choice to be ignorant.

We can choose to live under the ruler-ship of God or under the ruler-ship of the devil.

You can't reign in obscurity; you can't shine in your comfort zone.

You have no choice. You must leave your ego on the doorstep before you enter love.

Inconveniently, books are all the pages in them, not just the ones you choose to read.

What we do, before and after we read, is our choice. And that choice is freedom.

A man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind.

Momentous, cardinal decision — the choice of one’s work in the world; of one’s career. Few for whom the choice is early obvious and settled; few who can choose on their own. The initial responsibility is with those who are supposed to set us on the road. How often the choice, if choice it be is made for the boy — or even by him — on some fortuitous irrelevant circumstance. Or he just drifts into this or that. No conscious, serious, deliberate, reasoned effort rightly to choose. Hence the unhappiness and unsettlement of uncongenial, unsuitable occupation. Hence inefficiency and wastage in every business; in the business of the country. First requirement — an honest and determined effort to discover and understand oneself; one’s characteristics; abilities and disabilities; inclinations and disinclinations; assets and liabilities; temperament and disposition; an integration to the all-wisdom of knowing oneself. Then as to occupation. Decision not by appearance and incidental, in ignorance of what is involved in training and pursuit. Every profession and trade and calling has its special conditions, requirements, opportunities; they can easily be ascertained. Review these against the knowledge of one’s own characteristics and so the highest common factor can be determined. Too mathematical? Even if the part that conscious choice can play be exaggerated, it is better thus to err. At least it is worth the effort.

In a country like Nigeria, people have been made to believe that you need prayer to do what God has given men power to achieve.

Failure doesn't Teach us! Learning from it, is our Choice.

We may very well be faced with the choice of retaining the AAA credit rating or abandoning some of our key infrastructure projects, which are about jobs for the future. I will choose jobs in that equation every time.

We're always going to argue about abortion. It's a hard choice and it's controversial, and that's why I'm pro-choice, because I want people to make their own choices.

I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.

I'm pro responsible choice. You know, there is choice to abstain, choice to do contraception. There are all kinds of good choices.

I'm pro-responsible choice. There is choice to abstain, choice to do contraception. There are all kind of good choices.

I had to make a choice - recede into the academic world, or wade into politics.