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You are free to choose, but you are not free to alter the consequences of your decisions.


Ezra Taft Benson

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While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.
STEPHEN COVEY While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.
STEPHEN R. COVEY So Iverson got to know the secretary of agriculture, who was a guy named Ezra Taft Benson,
EZRA TAFT BENSON If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all
JACOB HORNBERGER We are free to choose our paths, but we can't choose the consequences that come with them.
SEAN COVEY You are free to choose what you want to make of your life. It's called free agency or free will,...
SEAN COVEY You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
RICHARD BACH If not to God, you will surrender to the opinions or expectations of others, to money, to resentment...
RICK WARREN The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choo...
THORNTON WILDER The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choo...
THORNTON WILDER You are free; you are free to go to your temples. You are free to go to your mosques or to any other...
MUHAMMAD ALI JINNAH You are free; you are free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your mosques or to any other...
MUHAMMAD ALI JINNAH Be a master of yourself.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA You have the freedom to choose your actions, you don't have the freedom to choose the consequences o...
WILLIAM GLASSER You have the freedom to choose your actions, you don't have the freedom to choose the consequences o...
CONRAD HILTON If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when yo...
DAN MILLMAN If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when yo...
SOCRATES Don't waste your tremendous voice writing messages in the sand.
LORIN MORGAN-RICHARDS failures are not your own self. See to it that you are free from them. Only when you can relinquish ...
THICH NHAT HANH You think the final act of love is setting them free to Rainbow Bridge? That is not the final act of...
KATE MCGAHAN Every person has free choice. Free to obey or disobey the Natural Laws. Your choice determines the c...
ALFRED A. MONTAPERT You are infinitely capable. You don't live in the universe. You are the universe. You are the entire...
MICHAEL SANDERS We are far from perfect but willing to be different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Every person has free choice. Free to obey or disobey the Natural Laws. Your choice determines the c...
ALFRED A. MONTAPERT Every person has free choice. Free to obey or disobey the Natural Laws. Your choice determines the ...
ALFRED A. MONTAPERT Mogo living brings about true freedom. When you have the inner conviction to do the most good and th...
ZOE WEIL Choose with whom to be accompanied it's your free choice, choose with whom not to be accompanied it'...
VáLGAME In your free time, you will choose who to hang out with. If you were to show me your friends, I coul...
MARK AMBROSE Machinations are divined. Response is by nature, nurture, experience and if sought peer pressure. Yo...
TRUTH DEVOUR You are not your body, not your appearance. Those are only your packaging. When the physical parts o...
TONI SORENSON Nature gave you brothers and sisters and you have no right to choose who should become your relative...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
WALTER CRONKITE "You are too free spoken," is your constant remark to me, Choerilus. He who speaks against you, Ch...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL You are not a bad person because you are gay. You are you because you are you and you were meant to ...
TEGAN QUIN I am sorry my decisions do not meet with your approval, but nevertheless, they are mine, and the con...
RACHEL CAINE You're not free, you are fated,
JOHN IORIO Either sin is with you, lying on your shoulders, or it is lying on Christ, the Lamb of God. Now if i...
MARTIN LUTHER Don't ignore the past, but deal with it, on your own pace. Once you deal with it, you are free o...
BORIS KODJOE Nothing is compulsory. Free will is paramount. But free will comes with the burden of consequences.
KELLY SUE DECONNICK Now is the time to draw a clean, clear, bright line and say if you are engaging in speech over the I...
JOHN DOOLITTLE Make choices that allow you to be free to choose again.
ANONYMOUS We all have a duty to define who we are
SOTONYE ANGA Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed!
I ARE Free again, but it's just a feeling; freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to c...
PAULO COELHO All are free to believe or not believe; all are free to practice a faith or not. But those who belie...
JEFF MILLER You are born, you live and then you die. But when you forgive you are free to live again!
STEPHEN RICHARDS Do you call yourself free? I want to hear your ruling idea, and not that you have escaped from a yok...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE If you are denied free will and free movement, then you are a slave
SOTONYE ANGA Clearing out all your misery gets you out of the way. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yours...
ELIZABETH GILBERT If you are fully conscious of your bad decisions, but are still trying to blame your parents, you ar...
SARA STRONG Man, free thinker!
Do you imagine you alone think in this world where life is blazing forth in ...
GéRARD DE NERVAL Others do not define you or who you are. You are more powerful than their notions of you. You are fr...
SYLVIA MONTERO Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free...
CHIEF JOSEPH When you choose to love as God loves, it will never be safe....but it will set you free.
JANET LARSON You know you have reached maturity when you finally decide to stop paying for the consequences of yo...
LESLIE A ARNETT Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The w...
NORMAN COUSINS You do realize that you are addressing the emperor of the Crescent Empire."
"And you are addres...
SARAH BETH DURST You are the architect of your life.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA When you think that you are free, do you pay attention to the elements of your thoughts and where ha...
ILKIN SANTAK Search and find out what you are meant to do in this life, when you find it, do it
SOTONYE ANGA The more you free your heart from sin, the more your heart is free to serve.
ORRIN WOODWARD Those things that are not within your control can often be the very things that set you free.
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR You're a manager if you spend most of your time making independent decisions and using your own disc...
JAMES GEAGAN You are free to go to your mosques or to any other place of worship in this State of Pakistan.
MUHAMMAD ALI JINNAH After [your] normal wear and tear you need to have the free-on pressures okay, your coils are clean.
SHAY BEAMAN The truth that you are in charge of your life will set you free only after it really irritates you.
SKY ST. JOHN It is not about civil rights or the rights of same-sex couples. Same-sex couples are free to live as...
TODD AKIN It's not who you are, but what you're made of. It's not where you come from, but where you're going ...
CAREW PAPRITZ Many people confuse “chronic fatigue” (which is a symptom of many chronic conditions, including ...
VALERIE FREE And we have the tools. We have the tools to choose. They are free, and within you now! It is the too...
TONY CURL Anytime you turn on your own concept of God, you are no longer a free man. No one needs to put chain...
JOHN HENRIK CLARKE Now you are free.
GAD BECK You can become your pain or you can understand it and free yourself of it to embrace who you truly a...
GAIL MARIE MACLEAN Face your fears by remembering the power of God's cleaning truth. To change the way you are, change ...
CRAIG GROESCHEL Do not blame your parents for who you are. They gave you the genes, but you choose how to wear them.
TRAVIS J HEDRICK You are what you are, and what you are is not me!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS There is no honeymoon -- not in a financial system like ours, not in this country where people are f...
HARVEY ROSENBLUM When you face your fears, you are free of them. There's nothing in the world I need to hide from...
DAPHNE ZUNIGA The world was full of holes, tiny apertures of meaninglessness, microscopic rifts that the mind coul...
PAUL AUSTER Working for a magazine, you have a boss; you are not free.
CARINE ROITFELD No, as an artist, you have to be free to explore all the corners of your heart. There are no boundar...
DIERKS BENTLEY Free your mind, free your soul.Open your mind to the possibility's of the truth and the truth shall ...
GARY F EVANS... You are blessed, You are great. You are not alone. You are powerful.
AMIT RAY When you have the strength to stand up for yourself ,the ones you love and the dignity and honor to ...
GARY F EVANS... We have this weird thing in the world where you don't get insulted for what you do, you get insulted...
JOHN GREEN Are you a stupid sheep in the flock or a free eagle in the sky? Look at the mirror, what are you? Ar...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to.
SUSAN CAIN Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move...
MAXWELL MALTZ Seeking means to have a goal; but finding means to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. You, O...
HERMANN HESSE Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. You,...
HERMANN HESSE You are free and that is why you are lost
FRANZ KAFKA Who knows? Maybe they’re right. Maybe we are driven crazy by our feelings. Maybe love is a disease...
LAUREN OLIVER And as you come to know Him, you're becoming like Him. The more you are like Him, the more different...
CRAIG GROESCHEL Your mind is the channel of it all. It feeds your soul, your heart, everything. It comes from your t...
STEPHEN MARLEY And my heart bled within me; for you can only be free when even the desire of seeking freedom become...
KAHLIL GIBRAN As long as mortals choose to do evil, then evil will triumph. And Lucifer will laugh when people bla...
KERRELYN SPARKS Saying you are sorry, accepting your apology, acknowledging your hurt and saying thank you. Will set...
KISHAN S CHAUHAN You are here to be free. There is no other way to be free than to embrace freedom within yourself.
TONY SAMARA Some people are very nice, until you get to meet them
BEN OAK There are two ways of meeting difficulties: You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet...
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BOB TAFT It's ineffective, it's misguided, it's crooked and it should be stopped.
KEVIN TAFT There's billions of dollars of investors' money at stake here, ... The national financial press will...
KEVIN TAFT This is our lottery win and we have a choice. We can spend it all now or we can think through a plan...
KEVIN TAFT One day the minister is saying something, the next day the premier is contradicting her,
KEVIN TAFT it feels like back-of-the-envelope policy at a billion-dollar scale.
KEVIN TAFT For systematically steering their customers to the most expensive providers,
KEVIN TAFT Once the chute opened, of course, we were floating, and it was just beautiful. It was awesome.
BETTY TAFT Every teenager deals in his or her own sexuality and has to face it and figure out how it can coinci...
EZRA MILLER There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; t...
EZRA POUND The year 2014 was a big year for my taste buds. They really stepped up their game. Like, I got into ...
GEORGE EZRA If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; ...
EZRA POUND A lot of what I listened to growing up was blues, but also folk and indie music. So there's this...
GEORGE EZRA The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too ...
EZRA POUND There once was a brainy baboon who always breathed down a bassoon for he said, It appears that in bi...
EZRA POUND All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew n...
EZRA POUND If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's n...
EZRA POUND The real meditation is... the meditation on one's identity. Ah, voil? une chose!! You try it. You tr...
EZRA POUND 'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we...
EZRA POUND Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.
EZRA POUND The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interfe...
EZRA POUND Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that...
EZRA POUND The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
EZRA POUND Wars are made to make debt.
EZRA POUND The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap of...
EZRA POUND It is difficult to write a paradise when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write...
EZRA POUND Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it cl...
EZRA POUND Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
EZRA POUND The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of ...
EZRA POUND No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
EZRA POUND With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.
EZRA POUND It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more in...
EZRA POUND A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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