James E. Faust Quotes

Starting off, all options are always open, but as soon as you choose something, you inevitably limit yourself. If you go for B, A is out.

You got one choice at the beginning but if you didn't choose right, things got narrow real quick.

We are doomed to choose and every choice may entail irreparable loss.

Choice was dangerous: you had to forgo all other possibilities when you chose.

Success can eliminate as many options as failure.

But the path you end up on means that you have to close a lot of doors, too.

Saying 'yes' to one thing means saying 'no' to another. That's why decisions can be hard sometimes.

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.

It's a choice, Annabel. And if you make the wrong one, you have only yourself to blame when there are consequences.

Choices are the hinges of destiny.

You have to make smart decisions, but you never know what will happen in the future.

Summits are best at dealing with problems, where the need for action is urgent and the range of possible actions limited. They are less good at dealing with opportunities.

Decisions determine destiny.

Every choice you make supersedes and overrides every other choice you make.

Better not to start down a wrong path at all than head down it in the hope of making a detour when something better came along.

Whenever you made a choice, especially one you'd been resisting, it always affected everything else, some in big ways, like a tremor beneath your feet, others in so tiny a shift you hardly noticed a change at all. But it was happening.

There are a lot of decisions we pass up on because we think, "You know what? That's just going to build - you know, maybe that's going to build me and not build the ministry and what I'm trying to do." So we pass up on a lot of opportunities.

the choices we made today were templates for the future.

However they may have felt when they left they were now committed, they had passed the point of no return.

We have to make the right decisions.

Strategy is choice. Strategy means saying no to certain kinds of things.

Sometimes the right choice seems great at the moment, but then suddenly it's as if somebody detonated a suicide bomb.

With every choice you risk the life you would have had; with every decision, you lose it.

Men have a thousand desires to a bushel of choices.

Choice means saying no to one thing so you can say yes to another.