Mitch Albom Quotes

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.

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

Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it. The only pity was one had to pay so often for a single fault. One had to pay over and over again, indeed. In her dealings with man, Destiny never closed her accounts.

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.

Don’t wreck my reputation / Let me wreck my own

My actions and reactions, and the way I treated certain scenarios, were way out of line, so I deserved some punishment.

Troubles hurt the most when they prove self-inflicted.

Our faults are not seen, But past us; neither felt, but only in The punishment.

In order not to be misunderstood, I want it perfectly clear that I believe it is incumbent on us to conduct our lives in a way that takes into account all the consequences of our actions, including the consequences to other people, and the consequences to the environment.

I don't want to mess up my life. You only get one shot. I don't want to let my fans or anybody else down. So, I always think before I act. And as long as I do that, I'll be okay.

The real world has consequences when you do and say things about others. We're at a point now where you better be sure who you're going after.

You are creating your own hell.

Don’t think so. We all make our choices, and those choices have consequences.

If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

By the age of forty, a man is responsible for his face. And his fate.

It takes courage not only to make decisions, but to live with those decisions afterward

Taking the things people do wrong seriously is part of taking them seriously. It’s part of letting their actions have weight. It’s part of letting their actions be actions rather than just indifferent shopping choices; of letting their lives tell a life-story, with consequences, and losses, and gains, rather than just be a flurry of events. It’s part of letting them be real enough to be worth loving, rather than just attractive or glamorous or pretty or charismatic or cool.

This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.

Rain didn't make things messy. People did that all on their own.

Isn't every hero aware of all the terrible reason they did those good deeds?" Aware of every mistake they ever made and how good people got hurt because of their decisions? Don't they recall the moments they weren't heroic at all? The moments where their heroism led to more deaths than deliberate villainy ever could?

You can't blame anyone else, ... , no one but yourself. You have to make your own choices and live every agonizing day with the consequences of those choices.

We make choices. No one else can live our lives for us. And we must confront and accept the consequences of our actions.

I think it's very important, and I think that what young people will learn from my experience is that even presidents have to do that and there are consequences when you don't. But I also think that there will be a box score, and there will be that one negative, and then there will be the hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of times when the record will show that I did not abuse my authority as president, that I was truthful with the American people.

If through your vices you afflicted are, Lay not the blame of your distress on God; You made your rulers mighty, gave them guards, So now you groan 'neath slavery's heavy rod.

There aren’t many sure things in life, but one thing I know for sure is that you have to deal with the consequences of your actions. You have to follow through on some things.