Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Quotes

Choice is the keynote of self-determinism. To determine anything, you must have the choice to determine. Choice to determine means that you must have the power of decision. Decision and time have a lot in common. When we have clean, clear decision, we have clean, clear time. And when we have indecision, there is an unclarity about time.

We all have them, those parts of us that are the greatest parts of us and the worst parts of us. Sometimes we're put in circumstances and bad choices are made.

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.

A lot of people think that addiction is a choice. A lot of people think it's a matter of will. That has not been my experience. I don't find it to have anything to do with strength.

I take the no-doughnut pledge, and then I break it.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

When your will power is gone, you are helpless.

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

When one has genuinely chosen a course for oneself it cannot be possible to hold another responsible for it.

I can't resist temptation of any kind.

There's always, always a choice. My options might really, truly suck, but that doesn't mean there isn't a choice.

I'm much more careful now about who I let into my life, but I don't think you could ever change what you're attracted to. You can make choices if you want to be with those people.

Even if an alcoholic is powerless over alcohol once it enters his body, he still makes a choice to drink. And, even if someone is attracted to a person of the same sex, he or she still makes a choice to engage in sexual activity with someone of the same gender.

I do think that there are cultural differences in the extent to which we value having more and more choice.

Develop discipline of self so that you do not have to decide and re-decide what you will do when you are confronted with the same temptation time and time again. You need only decide some things once.

Weakness is constant strain and misery: weakness is death.

I can DO ANYTHING I want, but I can't DO EVERYTHING I want.

I knew it like destiny, and at the same time, I knew it as choice.

I know that right choices by definition are the means by which life crystallizes loss.

It's one thing to make a choice. It's another to put that choice into practice.

I’m afraid you’re going to have to make a choice.

In reality, many choices are between things that are not that much different. The value of choice depends on our ability to perceive differences between the options.

Use wisely your power of choice.

I have no way and therefore want no eyes I stumbled when I saw. Full oft 'tis seen our means secure us, and our mere defects prove our commodities.

Wisdom is the power to see, and the inclination to choose, the best and highest goal, together with the surest means of attaining it.