Quotes About Decision

He quenched the fires in his path but left the rest to burn.

As she had learned, sometimes you had to make a choice, any choice, even when it wasn't clear which path was the right one.

As she'd learned through painful experience, second-guessing could be every bit as deadly as overreacting.

Take comfort, then, that whatever you choose in life has importance beyond yourself. Importance, even, on a cosmic scale.

Beware of losing your way, for you are one of the few who are truly free to choose their own fate. That freedom is a gift, but also a responsibility more binding than chains

There comes a time when you're losing a fight and it just doesn't make sense to keep on fighting. It's not that you're bring a quitter, it's just that you've got the sense to know when enough is enough.

When you do something because you're angry, you almost always do the wrong thing.

He had smoked dope exactly twice, but stopped when he realized it was called dope for a reason.

I have faith. It doesn't matter what I decide.

Mikoyan contended that the U.S. decision to halt denazification in Germany was of great political importance at the time, and in fact remains difficult for many Russians to understand or accept to this day.1

You don't always choose the path you walk in life, but, you always choose how you walk that path.

Trust is risk, and risk avoidance is the name of the game in business. ~ Tom West. 130-131

That's a tough pill to swallow because we're not children or dependents; we're adults. To support an idea, we need to understand why the decision was made.

Han did not even hesitate. He simply took one glance at their children, got a hard look in his eye, then set his jaw and turned to Leia. "What do you think, partner? Want to wander around the galaxy together?" "Sure." Leia pulled him onto the bed and twined her fingers into his. "But I'm navigating.

Of course there are risks – there are risks to everything a magician does." - Lorkin

It is often wiser not to fight at all than attack before victory is sure'

when you've seen different things you want to be sure you're adjusting to the right thing.

Since for most of her life my mother's mind, belonging first to her father and then to her husband, had not been hers to make up, she was finding it difficult to come to a decision

It's so easy for people that aren't there to say, 'I wouldn't have done that,' " Francona says. "Well, you know what? You didn't earn the right to make that decision. He did.

SIR:—Yours of this date, proposing armistice and appointment of Commissioners to settle terms of capitulation, is just received. No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works. I am, sir, very respectfully, Your ob't se'v't, U. S. GRANT, Brig. Gen. To this I received the following reply: HEADQUARTERS, DOVER, TENNESSEE, February 16, 1862.

hesitated to trade

WHEN THE NEWS REACHED ME of McPherson's victory at Raymond about sundown my position was with Sherman. I decided at once to turn the whole column towards Jackson and capture that place without delay.

What did I really think fifteen years ago? A nonbeliever, I felt guilty in the midst of all those believers. And since it seemed to me that they were in the right, I decided to believe, as you might decide to take an aspirin: It can't hurt and you might get better.

Can you call yourself a coward simply because the courage of others seems to you out of proportion to the triviality of the occasion? Thus wisdom creates cowards. And thus you miss Opportunity while spending your life on the lookout for it.