Materials for teachers 1.1: Quotes on choices and identity

By the choices and acts of our lives, we create the person that we are and the faces that we wear.

Kenneth Patton

Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.

Paul Tillich

Everything you now do is something you have chosen to do. Some people don’t want to believe that. But if you’re over age twenty-one, your life is what you’re making of it. To change your life, you need to change your priorities.

John C. Maxwell

I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.

Margaret Thatcher

Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.

Simone Weil

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

Rene Descartes

The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone. They foreclose the possibility of making other choices and thus they determine future events.

Gerda Lerner

The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.

Origen

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

John Dewey

The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.

Roseanne Barr

When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I’ve never tried before.

Mae West

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

Robert A. Henlein

You must train your intuition – you must trust the small voice inside you which teils you exactly what to say, what to decide.

Ingrid Bergman

One ship sails East,

And another West,

By the self-same winds that blow,

‘Tis the set of the sails

And not the gales,

That tells the way we go.

Like the winds of the sea

Are the waves of time,

As we journey along through life,

‘Tis the set of the soul,

That determines the goal,

And not the calm or the strife.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox