Doe Quote by Aristotle

The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preference, are exercised only in making a choice. He who does…

— John Stuart Mill

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

— Ayn Rand

When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to…

— Clark Moustakas

An individual chooses and makes himself.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

In the absence of government each man learns to think, to act for himself, without counting on the support of an outside force which,…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

I say that man is entitled to his own happiness and that he must achieve it himself. But that he cannot demand that others…

— Ayn Rand

One cannot choose wisely for a life unless he dares to listen to himself, his own self, at each moment of his life.

— Abraham Maslow

One believes others will do what he will do to himself.

— Victor Hugo

Man is always something more than what he knows of himself. He is not what he is simply once and for all, but is…

— Karl Jaspers

In the measure to which a man cuts off and humbles his own will, he proceeds toward success. But insofar as he stubbornly guards…

— Ephrem the Syrian

He is incapable of truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.

— Jacques Yves Cousteau