Quotes About Decision

If only I'd done it then, when I should have, everything would have been easy. What a joke.

My friends, you constrain me unto that which I was altogether resolved never to do, considering how hard a thing it is to find a wife whose fashions sort well within one's own humour and how great an abundance there is of the contrary sort and how dour a life is his who happeneth upon a woman not well suited unto him.

Quando uno non ha niente, il meglio è di andarsene.

Que não sabemos nem o que é o bem nem o que é o mal para nós. Mas que podemos decidir livremente o sentido a dar às coisas que acontecem. E essa é, no fundo, a nossa única força.

Richard, having modestly but effectually scored the minimum number for the purpose, was in process of deciding whether a green or a canary-coloured Fluffy Hussy should be his boon companion for the rest of the day.

Faith was a choice. So, it followed, was wonder.

The moment demanded action and all we had was paralysis.

He was quiet, cooperative. He'd made his decision. He knew his soul would have to deal with the consequences, but for now, God had lost. It was a relief to him. It always is, to find the edge of yourself. To know the exact limit of your strength. It's a relief because not knowing it is an exhausting full-time job.

The weather wouldn't settle down. It would rain cats and dogs, then stop, then drip awhile, then stop while it made up its mind what to do next.

When you choose the path, you choose the destination.

I wondered when exactly I had exchanged my conscience for fearful obedience.

If you don't draw a line in the sand, you will just keep drifting. You have to know what you're willing to do and not willing to do right now.

Our Founders explicitly designed our system so that all powers not delegated to the federal government (education included) fell to the states or the people; they believed that parents, not government officials, have the moral right to decide what their children are taught.

A number I'd love to know: the % of those now saying 'we have to vote Obama to stop an attack on Iran' who will support one if Obama does it.

Each and every airline is left to decide what is best for our children's safety, and the result should leave the public in no doubt that safety is not the main priority of many airlines. If it was, every child would have a safe and secure seat.

IF a couple wants to increase to a near-certainty their likelihood of divorcing once they do marry, then live together before marriage. And to improve dramatically their chances of avoiding divorce, all they have to do is not do something.

Remember: "For want of a nail, the horseshoe was lost, for want of a horseshoe, the horse was lost, for want of a horse, the battle was lost, for want of a battle, the war was lost." This parable should be the mantra of everyone who thinks her or his vote doesn't count.

It is hard to give up what you know for what you don't know.

You can either choose the pain of discipline now, or the pain of regret later. Regret lasts longer.

Josh Riebock, in his book Heroes and Monsters, says, "Everyone can change tomorrow. Everyone solves problems tomorrow. But the only changes that matter are the ones I make today. Tomorrow is the easiest day I'll ever live. Today is the scary one, which is probably why I've spent so much time avoiding it."[5]

Don 't go with the safe choice, go with the right one. It is safer.

Don 't let the insignificant positive side of wrong trap you. Even wrong has a positive aspect. Choose right with a significant positive side.

No consequence of right action is graver than the consequence of inaction.

The challenge of humanity is the choice of what works perfectly for them over what works fairly for them.