Joseph Roux Quotes

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

For every path you choose, there is another you must abandon, usually forever.

Usually you regret the things you say no to.

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

You have to make choices always. It's about the omission of something for the sake of another.

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

Those regrets that I do have are, exclusively, not doing plays that I wish I had done.

There's no regret more painful than the regret of things that never were.

The person who takes no chances generally has to take whatever is left when others are through choosing.

Choosing a path means having to miss out on others

It's the things you don't do, not the things you do, you feel most sorry for.

Choice means giving up something you want for something else you want more.

Every minute doing one thing is a minute not doing something else. Every choice is another choice not made another path grown over lost.

It's great to make your own choices, but there's a price to pay. I could've made more money or been more famous. I could be the current groovy guy.

I don't know if I would do this if I had to start over again.

Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.

I never regretted what I turned down.

It is not possible to spend on one thing and then not have consequences on something else.

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.

Maybe I thought too much about picking up the money and not enough about the really good parts.

There is no decision that we can make that doesn't come with some sort of balance or sacrifice.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties.

I was missing out on a lot of things that my friends were doing, but in another way, they were missing things I was doing. It was kind of a trade-off I had to make.