286 Quotes About Choices-and-consequences

If you take a man’s choices away from him, you cannot blame him for the outcome.

You put yourself here. Set this trap for yourself. So if you feel trapped by it now, it is your own fault. - The Director

We are the sum total of the decisions we have made.

I know I should just leave. Just go. Because there's a point where a mistake turns into a big mistake, and I should probably come to my senses before I get there.

At any particular moment in a man's life, he can say that everything he has done and has not done, that has been done and not been done to him, has brought him to this moment. If he's being installed as Chieftain or receiving a Nobel Prize, that's a fulfilling notion. But if he's in a sleeping bag at ten thousand feet in a snowstorm, parked in the middle of a highway and waiting to freeze to death, the idea can make him feel calamitously stupid.

Even if it's your nature to roar there are times you just have to walk away — disengage

Happiness will never invite you to the party. Happiness simply comes down to a choice to show up each and every day on the world with passion, purpose, place and meaning.

We are intelligent and compassionate creatures and we can make choices. We can fortify our hearts in goodness and do the right things. Or we can turn our heads the other way and pretend again that bad things are not happening. That they will disappear because they have nothing to do with us, because we are not accountable. Well, this is also our choice. But in that case, I am afraid, this world will be lost for us.

We are our choices.. That's why I am so afraid to choose.. Because more than anything else, I am afraid of facing myself..