Nicholas Sparks Quotes

Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed.

When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.

If I had done this, if I had said that, in the end you are always more tormented by what you didn't do than what you did, actions already performed can always be rationalized in time, the neglected deed might have changed the world.

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

Those who act will fail. Those who seize will lose.

It's too late to correct it: when you've once said a thing, that fixes it, and you must take the consequences.

Truth must be told-and things must change! If words are not about real things and do not cause things to happen, what is the good of them?

Some things I cannot change, but 'til I try I'll never know.

Never mistake motion for progress.

A lot can change between planning something and actually doing it. But maybe all that really matters is that anything is different at all.

You can’t say ‘if this didn’t happen then that would have happened’ because you don’t know everything that might have happened. You might think something’d be good, but for all you know it could have turned out horrible. You can’t say ‘If only I’d…’ because you could be wishing for anything. The point is, you’ll never know. You’ve gone past. So there’s no use thinking about it.

At the moment of truth, there are either reasons or results.

Reality will always prevail so why help it? Be an idealist and see what happens.

Things are so easy to do, so hard to undo.

When you talk of revolution ... you never talk of the day after.

What goes up must come down. But don't expect it to come down where you can find it.

Even if we could turn back, we'd probably never end up where we started.

Are not half our lives spent in reproaches for foregone actions, of the true nature and consequences of which we were wholly ignorant at the time?

Everything you do has some effect, some impact.

Events conspired to bring you back to where you'd been. It was what you did then that made all the difference: it was all about potential.

If you simply ignored the feeling, you would never know what might happen, and in many ways that was worse than finding out in the first place. Because if you were wrong, you could go forward in your life without ever looking back over your shoulder and wondering what might have been.

Do it or don't do it - you will regret both.

Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.

Sometimes you simply made the wrong choice and you had to live with it. You could only change the future.