Delmore Schwartz Quotes

I am the result of the good choices I've made and the bad choices.

The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.

I realized a long time ago that, even as a kid, it's all about the choices you make, the things you pursue. In the end, you're a sum of your choices.

The mistakes you make now count. Not for everything, and not forever. But they do matter, and they shape you.If you take nothing else from what I've been through, at least remember this: make your choices well. Because you'll always be accountable for them. That's what being an adult is all about.

My goal in life is to make decisions that minimize regrets. I don't regret anything I've done.

At a certain point, you realize you have a responsibility more behind yourself and your need for adrenaline. I'm glad I did things in my 20s that were more reckless.

The knowledge that we are responsible for living the life we have is our most powerful tool.

The real question is: How do you react? What do you do next? Evade responsibilities? Bury yourself in work? What do you do? All three of my novels take up that question, although none gives an answer.

This year has been full of lessons learned and soul searching and realizing I'm an adult. It's time to take responsibility and not take the easy way out.

In dreams begins responsibility.

I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.

Everything I did and continue to do happens for a reason, and honestly, I don't regret much in my life.

I act as if my life depends on each decision. Because it does.

I think everything I have done in my life, my reasons at the time were right no matter how things worked out.

Every man writes his manner. I just made poor decisions.

Life is about making choices, seeing those choices through, and living through consequences.

In dreams begins responsiblities.

Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn't like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself.

I'm a grown man. You know, I've been in a lot of scrapes, but I never felt like I got so - there are probably a lot of things I should have done that I didn't do.

Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That's the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don't grow up.

Learning what you don't want to do is pretty valuable, it may be as valuable as figuring out what it is you do want to do.

I think we should all live the moment. But you also have to think ahead. You have to think, 'Am I going to be happy with this five, ten years from now? Is it going to let me evolve and grow, or am I going to grow to one day wish I had never done it?' Sometimes you just have to think a little bit ahead.

If I had to do it over, I wouldn't change a thing.

I thought, I need to be more cautious about my choices - it reflects on who I am.

I stand by every decision I've made throughout my career and my life, good or bad, up or down.