C. S. Lewis Quotes

Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won't last forever. We must take it or leave it.

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

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

We are people in circumstances who make choices that we think are right at the time.

Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.

The individual always realizes only one of the possibilities in its development, which could always have taken a different turning whenever it has to make an important decision.

I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.

You are the sum total of the choices you make every day.

Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.

There's no wrong time to make the right decision.

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

I think people have to take responsibility for their own actions.

No choice is the wrong choice as long as you make a choice. The only wrong choice is choosing not to make one.

Everyone has to make their own decisions. I still believe in that. You just have to be able to accept the consequences without complaining.

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?

As contemporary history reminds us we are human to the extent that we are able to chose between alternatives.

I've got to find something and if I find something that I like, I'll do it. If I don't, I won't.

Our rulers do wrong from choice and right from necessity.

If any man err from the right way, it is his own misfortune, no injury to thee; nor therefore art thou to punish him in the things of this life because thou supposest he will be miserable in that which is to come.

If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all.

Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves that necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded.

We need not wade into the current of Niagara Falls unless we please; but, after we have waded in we must thereafter be governed by the course and force of the stream.

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.

You never know, when you commit to something, what else could have been. I'm so bored with that concept anymore. 'If only I didn't do this, I could have done this.' It was in front of me, they asked me to do it, and it seemed like good timing.

I realized a long time ago that, even as a kid, it's all about the choices you make, the things you pursue. In the end, you're a sum of your choices.