Quotes About Decisions

It occurs to me that as different as we are in our behavior and decisions, our most basic, knee-jerk emotional reactions to really big things are often remarkably similar. And it is in these moments that I am most grateful for my sister.

Our choices. Our fleeting moments together.

Who counts in this world and how much? Who does the deciding? Who has "potential" (that is, value) and who does not?

In life our first job is this, to divide and distinguish things into two categories: externals that I cannot control, but the choices I make with regard to them I do control. Where will I find food and bad? In me, in my choices.

If your choices are beautiful, so too will you be.

It is for you to arrange your priorities; but whatever you decide to do, don't do it resentfully, as if you were being imposed on.

Every choice moves us closer to or farther away from something. Where are your choices taking your life? What do your behaviors demonstrate that you are saying yes or no to in life?

The path to love wasn't a smooth road. Love would show up while you were busy with another love, leaving you to decide.

Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.

The value judgments we make determine our actions, and upon their validity rests our mental health and happiness.

I feel I've done some things in life too late and others too early

Sometimes I wonder if we can ever really overcome the past. It's what makes us who we are. One small thing done differently and we become someone else. It's like the butterfly effect. One moment can change history. One decision can change everything.

I have great friends around me that are positive and I think that's the key to life is making your own path. Set your own rules because there is no set rule, there is no set look, there is no set anything. You make your own rules in your life. You make your own decisions.

Worry retards reaction and makes clear-cut decisions impossible.

Life is all about choices.

Regardless of the outcome, the decisions linger. As one official put it, "Ethical questions will put scars on your soul that you can never get rid of.

Knowledge never guarantees perfect decisions, but it does reduce uncertainty, which makes better decisions more likely.

They'll be wonderful," Henry said with a faint smile. "They'll respect her decisions and tell her the truth as they know it and be kind when her heart's broken. It's really all she can ask for.

Yes, sir." "Doing this?" The guy used his hat to gesture to the framed porch. "No, sir. Fucking for money.

Some adjustments you made for life because you wanted to have a life.

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they're going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

Moral decisions. She had thought she was done with them. You did your best and then wondered for the rest of your life if you'd done the right thing.

Each individual should be able to make good decisions without peer preassure.

The most decisive actions of our life… are most often unconsidered actions.