Quotes about decisions

Bohdi Sanders - Modern Bushido: Living a Life of Excellence

Doing nothing is also an action not making a decision is making a decision.

Shannon L. Alder -

No one is ever a victim of life we are all volunteering to grow.

Israelmore Ayivor - Shaping the dream

Take bold decisions. Don’t let doubts fumble decisions in your mind and make you confused over them. Pursue what you are convinced to do else you set yourself up where you do not belong.

Elizabeth George - A Woman's High Calling

Little choices determine habitHabit carves and molds characterWhich makes the big decisions.

Maria Erving -

It's very simple just look at your life to see where you're heading. You're always in a momentum of something.

Patrick Ness - The Rest of Us Just Live Here

It felt like waiting for something to happen. Which has to be the worth part of being young. So many of your decisions aren't yours they're made by other people. Sometimes they're made badly by other people. Sometimes they're made by other people who have no idea what the consequences of those decisions might be. The bastards.

Shannon L. Alder -

The only side God chooses is one of commonsense. If it doesn’t make sense it is not God.

Melanie Cusick-Jones -

And so back to Cassie: who was she? Part of the deception just a friend or something else…perhaps it was time to find out.

Mehmet Murat ildan -

We take thousands of decisions in life the very best ones are often the ones taken boldly and unhesitatingly!

Kloby -

Ask yourself before making a decision will this decision harm or help myself or others involved in the decision

Mehmet Murat ildan -

Important decisions that will affect a nation’s fate or humanity’s fate cannot be left to the referendums! Because such decisions require good knowledge of history they require a sound reason and a powerful logic and masses often do not have such characteristics!

Israelmore Ayivor - Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!

Make good choices in order to manifest your true identity manifest your true being. What others see in you now is just a mild photo of you. The wild copy is yet to come. Print that image make it bigger!

Jodi Lyn O'Keefe -

I did make some not-so-great relationship decisions when I was a lot younger. I do know that not all high school boys are great and wonderful and Prince Charming, and there are a few that are going to treat you that way.

John W. Snow -

Telecom is a dramatic success in India and our view is, respecting the political process, and respecting the fact that these are sovereign decisions, is that, approaching India as a friend.

Lionel Sosa -

Anger does not solve problems - anger only makes things worse. I go by the old saying, 'Don't make important decisions when you're angry.'

Peter Blair Henry -

I'm generally slow to anger, quick to forgive, and I take in information before making decisions. So no matter how controversial the decision, my general demeanour is to put on white lab coat and gloves and look at the evidence, weigh the arguments and see what makes sense.

Lenny Abrahamson -

The most conventional romantic trope of all is that you put lovers under extreme pressure, where they have to make decisions that illuminate aspects of that bond.

Myles Munroe -

Our life is the sum total of all the decisions we make every day, and those decisions are determined by our priorities.

Keri Russell -

Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.

Jon Landau -

Bob Dylan has always sealed his decisions with the unexplainable. His motives for withholding the release of the magnificent 'Basement Tapes' will be as forever obscure as Brian Wilson's reasons for the destruction of the tapes for 'Smile.'

Oscar Hammerstein II -

Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.

Alice Waters -

The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way.

James McGreevey -

To be able to love and live in freedom means to be able to make godly decisions. To make godly decisions we have to surrender our egos and all the falsity and shame that goes with it.

Corliss Lamont -

I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice.

Joyce Meyer -

We're not like robots. God promises to guide us through the Holy Spirit, but He gives us the freedom to make our own decisions.

Lara Stone -

When planning your wedding you make so many decisions: 'Do I want this fork or that fork?' But in the end people aren't going to remember what napkin holder you choose.

Cherie Blair -

If I want to make political decisions, I should stand for election. If I want to do something in the legal field, that's different; that is my - they are my qualifications, but you know, the politicians are the ones who stand up there and are answerable to the people.

Yvonne Wood - Dead Beautiful

There are no such things as curses only people and their decisions

Erin M. Straza - Comfort Detox: Finding Freedom from Habits That Bind You

Scarcity mentality measures out life by the ounce it always concludes that the needs outweigh the resources.

Ralph G. Neas -

The nation will be shaped for decades by decisions that are made by President Bush and the Senate about the future of the Supreme Court.

Neil deGrasse Tyson -

You can't have people making decisions about the future of the world who are scientifically illiterate. That's a recipe for disaster. And I don't mean just whether a politician is scientifically literate, but people who vote politicians into office.

Wilma Mankiller -

In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people.

Thornton Wilder -

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.

Craig D. Lounsbrough -

Genius without wisdom is like a plane without wings it will navigate the runway but it will never know the sky.

Brittany Burgunder -

Hold yourself back, or heal yourself back together. You decide.

Sunday Adelaja -

Show the youth the consequences of their actions and why they should choose wisely

Craig D. Lounsbrough -

I'm in a hole because at some point I found a shovel and started digging. Maybe I should trade my shovels for ladders and start climbing.

T.F. Hodge - From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

The critical nature of 'choices' -- [the] timing will prove to be an asset or liability; it will reward wisdom or expose stupidity. Either way, we learn from the path of suffering or satisfaction… by choice and by design.

T.F. Hodge - From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

The critical nature of 'choices' -- [the] timing will prove to be an asset or liability; it will reward wisdom or expose stupidity. Either way, we learn from the path of suffering or satisfaction… by choice or by design.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

The right path is characterised by rough road.

Craig D. Lounsbrough -

I must never equate the degree of pain as evidencing the incorrectness of a decision, for if I do I will default on some of the most critical decisions I should have ever made.

Criss Jami - Killosophy

If you use a philosophy education well, you can get your foot in the door of any industry you please. Industries are like the blossoms on a tree while philosophy is the trunk - it holds the tree together, but it often goes unnoticed.

Percy Williams Bridgman - The Nature of Physical Theory

Not only are there meaningless questions, but many of the problems with which the human intellect has tortured itself turn out to be only 'pseudo problems,' because they can be formulated only in terms of questions which are meaningless. Many of the traditional problems of philosophy, of religion, or of ethics, are of this character. Consider, for example, the problem of the freedom of the will. You maintain that you are free to take either the right- or the left-hand fork in the road. I defy yo

E.A. Bucchianeri -

We are the sum total of the decisions we have made.

Mhairi McFarlane - You Had Me At Hello

Do nothing, and nothing happens. Life is about decisions. You either make them or they're made for you, but you can't avoid them.

Ken Levine -

We all make choices, but in the end our choices make us.

Erol Ozan -

Some beautiful paths can't be discovered without getting lost.

Mark Twain -

I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up!

Rachel Hawkins - Demonglass

Mom always liked to say that we hardly ever know the decisions we make that change our lives, mostly because they are little ones. You took this bus instead of that one and ended up meeting your soul mate, that kind of thing. But there was no doubt in my mind that this was one of those life-changing moments.

E.E. Cummings -

Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.

Lisa Wingate - A Month of Summer

The hardest thing about the road not taken is that you never know where it might have led.

Shauna Niequist - and Learning the Hard Way

It's not hard to decide what you want your life to be about. What's hard, she said, is figuring out what you're willing to give up in order to do the things you really care about.

Roy T. Bennett -

You are not the victim of the world, but rather the master of your own destiny. It is your choices and decisions that determine your destiny.

Temitayo Olami -

Sometimes it's not always straightforward, but it's not always confusing either. You just have to respect a person's decisions without disrespecting them.

Auliq Ice -

Be open about your thoughts, ideas, and desires and you will be right with your decisions.

David Brooks -

This is how life works. Deciding whom to love is not an alien form of decision-making, a romantic interlude in the midst of normal life. Instead, decisions about whom to love are more intense versions of the sorts of decisions we make throughout the course of our existence, from what kind of gelato to order to what career to pursue. Living is an inherently emotional business.

Auliq-Ice -

Gratitude turns disappointment into lessons learned, discoveries made, alternatives explored, and new plans set in motion.

Auliq-Ice -

For the grateful, there is no room for disappointment; Each moment offers life.

Sanhita Baruah -

It is not as much about who you used to be, as it is about who you choose to be.

Daniel Clausen - Ghosts of Nagasaki: Silence

Sometimes I think if we didn’t have these problems the whole world would stop spinning on her axis, we’d all stop spinning on our axises, axes, or whatever you want to call them, and then we’d have to settle into the nasty business of finding a way to be happy.

Malori Howell -

The decision is mine, and I choose happiness

Dragos Bratasanu - Ph.D.

People will always tell you what they think you should or should not do. But your life is only between you and God. If you have doubts whether what you’re doing is right or wrong, before you make any decision, look up and ask God. You will always know the answer.

Craig D. Lounsbrough - Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Life's Complex Journey

To be careless in making decisions is to naively believe that a single decision impacts nothing more than that single decision, for a single decision can spawn a thousand others that were entirely unnecessary or it can bring peace to a thousand places we never knew existed.

Criss Jami -

Never marry when under the guise you need to 'see if it'll work', but rather marry because in your mind you want to make it work.

Jim George -

There are always consequences to wrong choices.

Jim George -

The opportunity to do what is right is available at all times.

Shannon L. Alder -

My father taught me that you can you read a hundred books on wisdom and write a hundred books on wisdom, but unless you apply what you learned then its only words on a page. Life is not lived with intentions, but action.

Malinda Lo - Huntress

All you can do is make your decisions based on what you know now.

Shannon L. Alder -

Your actions will always be what the world sees, but people who choose to see through God's eyes will always have the compassion to understand why.

Dragos Bratasanu - Ph.D.

All you have to do is decide moment by moment which voice you listen to: the Truth of Love or the nightmare of fear.

Lawren Leo - Love's Shadow: Nine Crooked Paths

Most people live their lives laying prostrate before a false god, waiting for a cue to rise. There are no cues, only decisions. Shall I have dessert? Shall I have the best of the wine? Shall I love the person next to me? They can all be brought to your table. Rise, I say, rise and look within to the truth, to the light, and tell it your decision.

E.A. Bucchianeri -

Be wise today so you don't cry tomorrow.

Will Advise - Nothing is here...

And now, for something completely the same:Wasted time and wasted breath,'s what I'll make, until my death.Helping people 'd be as good,but I wouldn't, if I could.For the few that help deserve,have no need, or not the nerve,help from strangers to accept,plus from mine a few have wept.Wept from joy, or from despair,or just from my vengeful stare.Ways I have, to look at stupid,make them see I am not Cupid.Make them see they are in error,for of truth I am a bearer.Most decide I'm just a bear,maulin

Bogdan Vaida -

There are no undecideds. There are only people that decided to be undecided.

Criss Jami - Healology

The best people are always the worst. They drive everyone mad by being so good at second-guessing everything bad.

Amit Kalantri -

If my 'mind' don't mind, I don't mind.

Craig D. Lounsbrough -

What I allow into my head finds its way to my heart, which is a porthole to my soul. Therefore, I might be wise to consider the state of my soul, and then walk this process backwards.

Craig D. Lounsbrough -

If my decisions constantly heed the voice of the world, I can be completely assured that I’m going to end up in a ‘world of hurt.’ If my decisions heed the word of God, I can be completely assured that this ‘world of hurt’ isn’t anywhere near my solar system.

Craig D. Lounsbrough -

If my decisions constantly heed the voice of the world, I can be completely assured that I’m going to end up in a ‘world of hurt.’ If my decisions heed the word of God, I can be completely assured that this ‘world of hurt’ won't be anywhere near my solar system.

Craig D. Lounsbrough -

God invites. We decline. And because of that single foolhardy decision we spend the rest of our lives ‘declining’.

Louis Menand -

There is history the way Tolstoy imagined it, as a great, slow-moving weather system in which even tsars and generals are just leaves before the storm. And there is history the way Hollywood imagines it, as a single story line in which the right move by the tsar or the wrong move by the general changes everything. Most of us, deep down, are probably Hollywood people. We like to invent “what if” scenarios--what if x had never happened, what if y had happened instead?--because we like to believe t

DeWayne Owens -

Each decision you make today has the potential to unlock and open doors of profitable benefits or close the doors to great opportunities. Think before you act and make your decisions wisely today.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

Our deeds and actions can change the heart of men.

Unarine Ramaru -

One thing we entirely forget when making decisions is the fact that the results concern and throw back to the decision maker not the one it seeks to please.

Craig D. Lounsbrough -

Our best-laid plans are often our worst-made decisions.

Amanda Bouchet - A Promise of Fire

Unless they're utterly heartless, people put a certain value on human life. It keeps us from killing each other off for no reason. But for leaders like you and me, a moral high ground is too absolute. There are choices to be made.

Shannon L. Alder -

Gratitude was never a noun; it's secretly a verb. It is not a place you accept defeat, settle in for broken dreams or call it the best life will get. Gratitude is getting out of laziness, self pity, denial and insecurity, in order to walk through that door God has been holding open for you this entire time.

Shannon L. Alder -

When love and duty are one then grace is within your soul.

Shannon L. Alder -

If you don’t know what you value in life, then you won’t be able to make any meaningful decisions you can live with in the future.

Lance Conrad - The Price of Nobility

The weight of history swings on choices. To understand why people make the choices they do is to understand the whole of history and most of the future.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

The past is rich history. The present is sacred inscription. The future is yet to be written.

Craig D. Lounsbrough -

Instinct is all of our humanity being deliberately honest with all of life.

Kilroy J. Oldster - Dead Toad Scrolls

Self-reflection enables every person to alter the trajectory of their personal storyline by reviewing a series of episodic occurrences and making value judgments regarding the past. How we perceive our history colors the present, our deeds of today script the future outcome of individual persons, and the outcome of many people making conscious decisions using their cognitive processes including the ability to remember and share memories influences the direction of human development and the progr

Peter Singer - Practical Ethics

Almost any established decision procedure is better than a resort to force; for when force is used, people get hurt and the desire for retaliation is likely to lead to more violence. Moreover, most decision procedures produce results at least as beneficial and just as a resort to force.

K. Martin Beckner - A Million Doorways

Life’s journey does not take place down an easy roadway, as some might imagine. It takes place inside a giant house with a million doorways. Every day of our lives we are faced with decisions to make, doorways to walk through. It can be confusing at times, like walking through a carnival maze. Some decisions we make are big, some small, but they all have consequences..

Rebecca McKinsey -

When you don't change, history repeats itself. Then you have to decide if changing is for the best, or you keep seeing repeats because you're doing something right.

Justina Chen - North of Beautiful

There must be a few times in life when you stand at a precipice of a decision. When you know there will forever be a Before and an After...I knew there would be no turning back if I designated this moment as my own Prime Meridian from which everything else would be measured.

Ann Davidman - Motherhood - Is It For Me?: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Clarity

Only you can know what's true for you. I'll help you get there.

Alexander McCall Smith - The Full Cupboard of Life

We all know that it is women who take the decisions, but we have to let men think that the decisions are theirs. It is an act of kindness on the part of women.

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