Decisions Quotes - Page 3

In forty hours I shall be in battle with little information and on the spur of the moment will have to make the most momentous decisions. But I believe that one's spirit enlarges with responsibility and that with God's help I shall make them and make them right.

General George S. Patton

The difficulty of life is in the choice.

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.

As a man thinketh so is he and as a man chooseth so is he.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Decisions determine destiny.

Frederick Speakman

Choices are the hinges of destiny.

Many of life's circumstances are created by three basic choices: the disciplines you choose to keep the people you chose to be with and the laws you choose to obey.

Charles Millhuff

You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.

Joan Baez

Look for your choices pick the best one then go with it.

Pat Riley

Rules of society are nothing one's conscience is the umpire.

Madame Dudevant

No matter how lovesick a woman is she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along.

Dr. Joyce Brothers

Form the habit of making decisions when your spirit is fresh ... to let dark moods lead is like choosing cowards to command armies.

Charles Horton Cooley

One must either accept some theory or else believe one's own instinct or follow the world's opinion.

Decide which is the line of conduct that presents the fewest drawbacks and then follow it out as being the best one because one never finds anything perfectly pure and unmixed or exempt from danger.

Niccolò Machiavelli

A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved.

Dorothea Brande

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

Choose always the way that seems the best however rough it may be custom will soon render it easy and agreeable.

Where an opinion is general it is usually correct.

Once the "what" is decided the "how" always follows. We must not make the "how" an excuse for not facing and accepting the "what."

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past present and future state and at others whom it affects and see the relation of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

Men and women everywhere must exercise deliberate selection to live wisely.

Decision and determination are the engineer and fireman of our train to opportunity and success.

The last of the human freedoms: to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances to choose one's own way.

Choice of attention ... is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences whatever they may be.

You are the one who must choose your place.

James Lane Allen

Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be what he will become in the next moment.

Full maturity ... is achieved by realizing that you have choices to make.

Angela Barron McBride

Wherever you see a successful business someone once made a courageous decision.

Life is just a series of trying to make up your mind.

Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement the less perfect our success.

To know just what has do be done then to do it comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.

Sir William Osier

Somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.

Life is the sum of all your choices.

The reason I like the game chess is because each move has countless repercussions, but you're in charge of them. And it's your ability to see into the future and the effects of the decisions you've made that males you either a good or not a good chess player. It's not luck.

Bono

-Elves never make any major decision until they have thought the matter over for at least a year or two, gone round to all their friends and relatives and discussed the problem, done research, read tomes, consulted the sages.-And what happens then?- By then they've usually forgotten what it was they meant to do in the first place.

You can't make the right decision, but you can always make the dicision right.

Don’t think about it. Don’t think about what could have been. It’s too unbearable.

Sophie Kinsella

I had made a decision, although I hardly knew it yet. It's often that way with decisions, they're made in some hidden part of us and the awareness secretes itself slowly into that conscious part of us that imagines it decides.

I know when something is too important to be decided by logic.

Miles added it to his life's lessons list. Call it Rule 27B. Never make key tactical decisions while having electro-convulsive seizures.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Jesus told us to make disciples, not decisions.

It's like picking the place you're going to live for the next fifty years by using a wall map, a blindfold, and what you really, truly, deeply believe is your lucky dart.' Sullenly Judith said, `I don't believe I have a lucky dart,' and her mother cast an unhappy smile her way and said, `You will, though.

If the breadth of perspectives is wide enough to represent the fullest range of views, consensus is unlikely. If consensus is swiftly achieved, it probably means too few voices have been heard.

We are very quiet there, but it is the quiet of a storm centre. .

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Decisions Determine the directions of your destiny

My bad luck got tangled up with my bad decisions, and I'm paying for it.

Patrick Rothfuss

The only good thing about having your back to the wall is that it makes it really easy to choose which way you're going to go.

I realize that the decision might be simple. It will require a great act of selflessness to choose Abnegation, or a great act of courage to choose Dauntless, and maybe just choosing one over the other will prove that I belong.

Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn

Bertrand Russell

Not making a decision is the worst thing you can do. So long as you feel you made the right decision based on the information you had at that time, there's no need to fret about it. If it fails, you'll know what to do next time.

Bo Schembechler

For what do you hunger, Lord?” Moneo ventured.“For a humankind which can make truly long-term decisions. Do you know the key to that ability, Moneo?”“You have said it many times, Lord. It is the ability to change your mind.

Many people fail in their career, business and relationship, and others get stuck because of their inability to make quality decisions.

Nkem Paul

Everything is a tool - a boot, a sled, a dog - and a hand, an arm, even a man! If it breaks down you throw it away and you march on! It's brutal, yes! And it's ugly. But anything else is sentiment and it will kill you.

Ted Tally

Observation is the telescope of human nature. It is the tele of watching distantly. But taking an action is the result of Self-regulation and interference. It is going beyond boundaries in aiming to achieve a considerable ambitions.

The ignoramus crow of "love it or leave it" omits other viable options, such as staying and changing it.

I had reclusive tendencies for a reason, I couldn’t be trusted to live in the world and make decisions on my own.

We wind our way up the spiral staircase and then down the long hallway that leads to his room. I feel almost like I’m watching the scene unfold from outside my body. My fingers are interlocked with his as he pulls me toward a moment that’s going to change everything. We are ten steps away. Five steps. I can’t decide. But then I do.

You'll wake up one day and find you're almost forty, and you haven't done any of the things you wanted. That you let in so many voices when you were trying to make decisions, instead of listening to the One voice that mattered, that you never decided anything at all.

Stephanie Morrill

Time...give us enough time and our best-supported decisions will seem wobbly, our certainties whimsical.

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