Thomas S. Monson Quotes

We all have choices in history. Some are more important than others.

Choices are the hinges of destiny.

The choices we've made throughout our lives affect whatever happens to us in any given moment.

Life's all about choices. Everyone's destination is the same; only the paths are different.

Decisions, they shape our destiny.

Decisions determine destiny.

We seal our fate with the choices we make.

Every moment in your life is a turning and every one a choosing. Somewhere you made a choice. All followed to this. The accounting is scrupulous. The shape is drawn. No line can be erased. I had no belief in your ability to move a coin to your bidding. How could you? A person's path through the world seldom changes and even more seldom will it change abruptly. And the shape of your path was visible from the beginning.

Life is full of confusion. Confusion of love, passion, and romance. Confusion of family and friends. Confusion with life itself. What path we take, what turns we make. How we roll our dice.

It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.

The days, months, and years eventually reveal, like a Polaroid, a clear picture of how significant events and decisions ultimately shape our lives.

The pull, the attraction of history, is in our human nature. What makes us tick? Why do we do what we do? How much is luck the deciding factor?

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.

It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.

He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end.

In the end, human history is made up of all our decisions.

Everybody is dealt a hand of cards. It was my choice to play them the way I played them.

A spine to my films that's become more evident to me is that many are about the choices people make, and the reverberations of those choices. You go this way, or that way, and either way, there's going to be consequences.

We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

Nobody is perfect, but life is about choices.

Our acts our angels are, for good or ill, our fatal shadows that walk by us still.

History is the record of an encounter between character and circumstances.

As a person, I am totally obsessed with the choices and decisions we make in our lives and how they dictate the course of our lives. Seemingly random choices that we make end up defining everything.

History isn't something you look back at and say it was inevitable, it happens because people make decisions that are sometimes very impulsive and of the moment, but those moments are cumulative realities.