Quotes About Decisions

You're the total of all the choices you've made in your life, Jack. This is what you have because this is what you chose.

Human beings are incapable of making big decisions when they are being crippled by numerous little decisions. It was why people stayed employed at soul-crushing jobs, because they only had to handle it on a day by day basis, rather than think of it as a forty year wasted chunk of their lives. I

What young men will be, in all probability depends on what they are now, and they seem to forget this. Youth is the planting time of full age, the molding season in the little space of human life, the turning point in the history of man's mind.

If reason plays no practical role in such religious decisions as choosing a denomination or becoming a Christian in the first place, why should we expect it to inform subsequent decisions within the religious life?

Excuse me," Kira said. "I am perfectly capable of getting myself into a mess. Isn't that what the Senior Mechanics tried to say about my mother? That someone else was leading her astray? I'm in this mess because of my decisions.

Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow. Robert Kiyosaki

Life doesn't just happen to you. It's all about choices and how you respond to every situation.

we cannot control how others feel and react. Even though we should understand feelings, there are some things that are out of our control, and some decisions we can only make for ourselves.

POWER IS THE FACULTY OR CAPACITY TO ACT, THE STRENGTH AND POTENCY TO ACCOMPLISH SOMETHING. IT IS THE VITAL ENERGY TO MAKE CHOICES AND DECISIONS. IT ALSO INCLUDES THE CAPACITY TO OVERCOME DEEPLY EMBEDDED HABITS AND TO CULTIVATE HIGHER, MORE EFFECTIVE ONES." —Stephen R. Covey

Physically, spiritually, emotionally, and mentally, I am making decisions and choices that manifest sobriety every day in my life, and doing so allows me to live the life that I have always dreamed of—one of excitement, purpose, and giving back.

This was the problem with making important decisions by committee and trying to run a war of ideals with men and women whose vision was so limited by money.

Strongholds are developed from our habits (an act repeated so often that it becomes involuntary, there is no new decision of mind each time the act is performed). Strongholds can also be birthed from judgments that have been made when wounding occurs or when the basic needs of life are not met.

Someone once said anyone can be great under rosy circumstances, but the true test of character is measured by how well a person makes decisions during difficult times.

The jury may be out over the long-term consequences, but it seems prudent to us to avoid C-sections if you have a choice.

Before producers decided to keep things simple and call the show Friends, they toyed with the idea of Friends Like Us (ok, that's not too bad), Six of One (what?), Across the Hall (logical I guess), Insomnia Café (no, just no) and Once Upon a Time in the West Village

In the Mongol perspective, challenges choose us, but we choose how to respond. Destiny brings the opportunities and the misfortunes, and the merit of our lives derives from those unplanned moments.

When you own your choices, you own their consequences.

You don't get to do over parts or go back and change your path. Your life is decided by your character and the decisions you make in the moment.

Life, he told me, was like a fork of lightning. He could see exactly where one decision violently parted company with another and a new future flared up before him.

Look at them. They're pretending, they behave as though they still have some control over their lives and make momentous decisions about which vegetable to cook first.

May I not sit in judgment. May I be open to hearing and accepting the truth of what I am told. May my decisions be for the good of all concerned. May my work bring peace . . . Charlotte

Visions are possibilities. Actions are the only thing able to determine our futures.

Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.

The primary element in any civilization is a stable relation between man and his environment. When man becomes the plaything of abstract decisions, a civilization can no longer be created.