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- A slave does not choose his master.~ Ghanaian Proverb
- A slave has no choice.~ Kenyan Proverb
- Better be an old man’s darling than a young man’s slave.~ Traditional Proverb
- Better in the grave than be a slave.~ Korean Proverb
- Better to be a poor woman than the slave of the rich.~ Swedish Proverb
- Call someone your lord and he’ll sell you in the slave market.~ Saudi Arabian Proverb
- Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.~ Vincent Van Gogh
- Fire is a good slave, but a bad master.~ Albanian Proverb
- For the first five years of your son’s life treat him as a prince, for the next ten years as a slave, then as a friend for the rest of his life.~ Indian Proverb
- He who is a slave of truth is a free man.~ Arabian Proverb
- He who works as a slave, eats as a king.~ Indian Proverb
- Hunger is felt by a slave and hunger is felt by a king.~ Ghanaian Proverb
- If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.~ Wayne Dyer
- If you call a lady a slave, she laughs, but if you call a slave a slave, he cries.~ Indian Proverb
- It is better to be a free man in a small house than a slave in a big one.~ Norwegian Proverb
- Poverty is slavery.~ Somali Proverb
- Rather be a slave to a rich man than the spouse of a poor man.~ Indian Proverb
- Rather free in a foreign place than a slave back home.~ Norwegian Proverb
- Seven days king, seven days minister, slave for the rest of your life.~ Arabian Proverb
- Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.~ Edmund Burke
- Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.~ Jean Jacques Rousseau
- The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.~ Diogenes of Sinope
- The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.~ John Ruskin
- The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.~ Thomas La Mance
- The mistress is queen, the wife is the slave.~ Portuguese Proverb
- The slave must be content with the joys of his master.~ Arabian Proverb
- The worst thing about slavery is that the slaves eventually get to like it.~ Aristotle
- Voluntary work is better than slavery.~ Nigerian Proverb
- When the heart acts the body is its slave.~ African Proverb
- Work like a slave and eat like a gentleman.~ Albanian Proverb
- You are still a slave if only your limbs are free.~ German Proverb
- Your five year old son is your instructor; at ten your slave; at fifteen your equal and after that either friend or foe.~ Turkish Proverb
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- A human being is a deciding being.~ Viktor E. Frankl
- A slave has no choice.~ Kenyan Proverb
- Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.~ Wayne Dyer
- Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.~ Tryon Edwards
- Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.~ Francis Bacon
- Choose the way of life. Choose the way of love. Choose the way of caring. Choose the way of goodness. It’s up to you. It’s your choice.~ Leo Buscaglia
- Don’t be scared when you have no other choice.~ Yiddish Proverb
- Each person designs his own life, freedom gives him the power to carry out his own designs, and power gives the freedom to interfere with the designs of others.~ Eric Berne
- Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark which of the two takes the sunny side; he will be the younger man of the two.~ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
- Everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedom — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.~ Viktor E. Frankl
- He that has a choice has trouble.~ Dutch Proverb
- He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.~ Harry Emerson Fosdick
- If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.~ Kahlil Gibran
- Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we’ve learned and create something.~ Liz Carpenter
- In a choice between bad company and loneliness — the second is preferable.~ Spanish Proverb
- It’s so hard when I have to, And so easy when I want to.~ Sondra Anice Barnes
- It is not something I must do but something I want to do.~ James Fixx
- It is your own convictions which compels you; that is, choice compels choice.~ Epictetus
- Man’s power of choice enables him to think like an angel or a devil, a king or a slave. Whatever he chooses, mind will create and manifest.~ Frederick Bailes
- No choice is an option.~ Yiddish Proverb
- Most of life is choices, and the rest is pure dumb luck.~ Marian Erickson
- Of course, fortune has its part in human affairs, but conduct is really much more important.~ Jean Detourbey
- On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us –ah! what a dream, to live in that! — the other stifles us at the first breath.~ Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
- The key to your universe is that you can choose.~ Frederick (Carl) Frieseke
- The only causes of regret are laziness, outbursts of temper, hurting others, prejudice, jealousy, and envy.~ Germaine Greer
- There is always a time to make right what is wrong.~ Susan Griffin
- The world isn’t interested in the storms you encountered, but whether or not you brought in the ship.~ Raul Armesto
- Thus we see that the all important thing is not killing or giving life, drinking or not drinking, living in the town or the country, being unlucky or lucky, winning or losing. It is how we win, how we lose, how we live or die, finally, how we choose.~ R. H. Blyth
- We are as much informed of a writer’s genius by what he selects as by what he originates.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.~ Leo Buscaglia
- You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.~ Deepak Chopra
- You are either part of the solution or part of the problem.~Eldridge Cleaver
- You are the person who has to decide. Whether you’ll do it or toss it aside. ~ Edgar A. Guest
- You are the person who makes up your mind. Whether you’ll lead or will linger behind. Whether you’ll try for the goal that’s afar. Or just be contented to stay where you are.~ Edgar A. Guest
- You can’t choose up sides on a round world.~ Wayne Dyer
- You can decide to be someone who brings people together, or you can fall prey to those who wish to divide us. You can be someone who educates yourself, or you can believe that being negative is clever and being cynical is fashionable. You have a choice.~ Hillary Rodham Clinton
- You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don’t find easy, or learn an awful lot very fast which is what I tried to do.~ Jane Fonda
- You can lay down and die, or you can get up and fight, but that’s it — there’s no turning back.~ Jon English
- You don’t have to buy from anyone. You don’t have to work at any particular job. You don’t have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose.~ Harry Browne
- When you have no choice, mobilize the spirit of courage.~ Hebrew Proverb
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- Achievement comes when you decide to live your possibilities.~ Decisions Quotes
- A conference is a gathering of people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.~ Fred A. Allen
- A jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.~ Robert Frost
- Before borrowing money from a friend decide which you need most.~ American Proverb
- Decide that you really want to achieve the goal…~ Robert J. McKain
- Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.~ HL Hunt
- Decide what is worthwhile and follow through with it. Real success is finding your life work in the work that you love.~ Colleen McCullough
- Deliberate often — decide once.~ Latin Proverb
- He is free… who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.~ Salvador De Madriaga
- If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.~ Neil Peart
- If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and when to stop.~ Chinese Proverb
- In case of doubt, decide in favor of what is correct.~ Karl Kraus
- I leave before being left. I decide.~ Brigitte Bardot
- It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide what to do.~ Elbert Hubbard
- Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it.~ George Eliot
- Let the sword decide only after the plan has failed.~ Arabian Proverb
- Making a decision to have a child — it’s momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.~ Elizabeth Stone
- Not to decide is to decide.~ Harvey Cox
- Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.~ Napoleon Bonaparte
- Once you have decided to hit someone, then hit them hard because the retribution will be the same whether you hit hard or not.~ Arabian Proverb
- Our power is in our ability to decide.~ R. Buckminster Fuller
- People become successful the minute they decide to.~ Harvey MacKay
- The day you decide to do it is your lucky day.~ Japanese Proverb
- The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.~ Flora Whittemore
- The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.~ John Pierpont Morgan
- The man deliberates, the woman decides.~ Spanish Proverb
- May you live to be a hundred — and decide then rest for yourself.~ Irish Proverb
- Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.~ Tryon Edwards
- To decide to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life.~ Arbie M. Dale
- To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.~ Bunker Hunt
- You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die, or when. You can decide how you’re going to live now.~ Joan Baez
- You must decide where you are going in the evening, if you intend to leave early in the morning.~ Malian Proverb
- You must train your intuition — you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide.~ Ingrid Bergman
- You too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination.~ W. Clement Stone
- What we must decide is perhaps how we are valuable, rather than how valuable we are.~ Edgar Z. Friedenberg
- When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn’t a sign that they “don’t understand” one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.~ Helen Rowland
- Wise men argue cases, fools decide them.~ Anacharsis
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