A Quote by Jacques Delille

Our relatives are ours by chance, but we can choose our friends.

Jacques Delille

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Chance Choose Friends Our Ours Relatives

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Jacques Delille
French - Poet
June 22, 1738 - May 1, 1813

Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Jacques Delille

God gives us our relatives – thank God we can choose our friends.

Addison Mizner

God gives us our relatives, thank God we can choose our friends.

Ethel Watts Mumford

God gives us relatives; thank God, we can choose our friends.

Addison Mizner

Our ultimate weapon is not our guns but our beliefs ... Ours are not Western values. They are the universal values of the human spirit and anywhere, any time, ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same. Freedom not tyranny. Democracy not dictatorship. The rule of law not the rule of the secret police. The spread of freedom is the best security for the free. It is our last line of defence and our first line of attack.

Tony Blair

The world is nothing but a school of love; our relationships with our husband or wife, with our children and parents, with our friends and relatives are the university in which we are meant to learn what love and devotion truly are.

Swami Muktananda

We must act as if our institutions are ours to create, our learning is ours to define, our leadership we seek is ours to become.

Peter Block

We can choose our family. We can't choose our relatives.

Gabriel Iglesias

In the space between stimulus (what happens) and how we respond, lies our freedom to choose. Ultimately, this power to choose is what defines us as human beings. We may have limited choices but we can always choose. We can choose our thoughts, emotions, moods, our words, our actions; we can choose our values and live by principles. It is the choice of acting or being acted upon.

Stephen Covey

We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our parents, or the country of our birth. We do not, most of us, choose to die; nor do we choose the time and conditions of our death. But within this realm of choicelessnness, we do choose how we live.

Joseph Epstein

If God gave it to me," we say "it's mine. I can do what I want with it." No. The truth is that it is ours to thank Him for and ours to offer back to Him, ours to relinquish, ours to lose, ours to let go of - if we want to find our true selves, if we want real Life, if our hearts are set on glory.

Elisabeth Elliot

Whatever your views on Pakistan, our effort was that we have to engage Pakistan. They are our neighbours. We can choose our friends, but we cannot choose our neighbours.

Manmohan Singh

The Savior isn't our last chance; He is our only chance. Our only chance to overcome self-doubt and catch a vision of who we may become. Our only chance to repent and have our sins washed clean.