Quotes About Decisions

the big decisions we face in life, the wild problems—whether to marry, who to marry, whether to have children, what career path to follow, how much time to devote to friends and family, how to resolve daily ethical dilemmas—these big decisions can't be made with data, or science, or the usual rational approaches.

Practice Guideline 5 Assign comparison practice exercises to build relevant prior knowledge, to correct flawed or incomplete mental models, or to reflect on decisions made in a training scenario.

Discernment, in a most general sense, is the capacity to recognize and respond to the presence and the activity of God—both in the ordinary moments and in the larger decisions of our lives.

there is a way of doing life in leadership that is not so complicated and heavy—a way of making decisions that does not have to rely on our own brilliance and ability to think hard, a way of being involved in God's work that ends up being more about God's work than our own.

To be popular with girls, a man must do the wrong thing at the right time.

And it's okay for a man to know life is full of choices, and most of the ones we make are wrong.

Government: A good government shouldn't control its citizens, but it should intervene when it's citizens are making harmful decisions. And when the government is making harmful decisions it's citizens should intervene. There needs to be some sort of safeguard that keeps these two from harming one another.

Mistakes and Decisions: A person should never make a mistake, a bad decision, but if they do they should admit to it and except responsibility for the Proper and appropriate penalties, if its appropriate there are any penalties at all.

You don't have senses so you can impair them with drugs, alcohol, and tobacco. You don't have a life so you can make bad decisions and harm yourself and or others, smarten up.

Choices that you make out of inability are not life solutions.

we're at a crossroads, and the actions we take from this moment forward will have a defining impact on what kind of world we leave behind for future generations.

This is the time to make those hard decisions and let things go. Ask yourself, "Is this item part of my past or my future?" If it's sentimental, take a picture and let it go! Save the memory in a picture, but not on your shelf.

Either pain affects the body (which is the body's problem) or it affects the soul. But the soul can choose not to be affected, preserving its own serenity, its own tranquillity. All our decisions, urges, desires, aversions lie within. No evil can touch them.

But Marcus Aurelius knows that what the heart is full of, the man will do.

why one should pray to a power whose decisions one can hardly hope to influence

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

I made choices, and then, having made them, I had fewer choices.

Such regrets are of no practical use. I made choices, and then, having made them, I had fewer choices.

But in an account such as this, it is better to be scrupulous about your faults, as about all your other actions. Otherwise no one will understand why you made the decisions that you made.

I don't feel pleased with myself while recording this cruelty, even though it was only a cruelty to a doll. It's a vengeful side of my nature that I am sorry to say I have failed to subdue entirely. But in an account such as this, it is better to be scrupulous about your faults, as about all your other actions. Otherwise no one will understand why you made the decisions that you made.

But perhaps it is too late for that. You take the first step, and to save yourself from the consequences, you take the next one. In times like ours, there are only two directions: up or plummet.

But everyone's life always came down to choices.