Joy Williams Quotes

When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action.

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

We speculate as to what is in store for us. But we not only undergo events, we in part cause them or at least influence their course. We have not only to study them but to act.

Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.

It is up to us to make the right choice and the right decisions.

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

We can choose a path that leads us into trouble. It all comes down to our decisions at the end of the day.

People are decisions and actions.

When you make a choice, you change the future.

Things that are easily done are often much harder to undo. Sometimes, impossible.

Our hands we open of our own free will, and the good flies, which we can never recall.

We don't get to chose what is true. We only get to choose what we do about it.

Your destiny is shaped by choice, never by chance. Beware the decisions you make, no matter how small, for they will be your salvation...or your death.

And whatever I do will become forever what I've done.

We don't just get our choice; we get the consequence that choice creates.

We are free to choose our paths, but we can't choose the consequences that come with them.

Since we own our bodies, we also inevitably own the effects of our actions, be they good or bad. If we own the effects of our actions, then clearly we own that which we produce, whether what we produce is a bow, or a book - or a murder.

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.

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.

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

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.