James E. Faust Quotes

Life is about choices, and the grace - or lack thereof - with which you execute them is a make-or-break moment in anyone's life.

Everything's not black and white. We choose to make bad decisions or not.

Everybody's a mix of good and bad choices that they make.

This life is a test, and we're put down here to make choices. The truth is, the bad choices of other people can hurt us.

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.

Ultimately, you choose to be happy or miserable. The reality is that although you are free to choose, you can't choose the consequences of your choices. They're preloaded. It's a package deal.

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

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

Don't get yourself in certain circumstances or instances, because it's not a good feeling to be sitting in that chair where you've got 12 people that are in control of your life. You have an opportunity to be in control of your life for yourself by the decisions that you make.

You have to make your choice and live with your choice.

We are people in circumstances who make choices that we think are right at the time.

Sometimes its controversy, but we all have our choices that we make.

When you make bad decisions bad things happen. And it was so simple. You know, the decisions you make are going to become the life that you live!

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

You are the one who makes the choices that control your fate.

I think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make.

Most of us are going through life without interrogating whether our decision-making processes are fit for purpose. And that's something we need to change - especially when the stakes are high and the decisions are of real import.

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.

You know, we all can do bad, and we all can do good.

Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.

Whether it's trivial or important, every choice has a moral aspect to it to a certain degree.

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 suspect that here theists and atheists would agree: Human beings have within them the ability to choose evil or good. We wake up each day facing the age-old struggle of good and evil. In some situations, mental illness clouds our judgment.

You make a choice in your life, and it affects your life in all the ways, good and bad.

Good or bad, everything we do is our best choice at that moment.