Quotes About Decision

You'll wish that you had done some of the hard things when they were easier to do.

Putting off an easy thing makes it hard, and putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.

The two rules of procrastination: 1) Do it today. 2) Tomorrow will be today tomorrow.

William Shakespeare, King Lear

Take risks: if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise.

One cannot refuse to eat just because there is a chance of being choked.

Better dead sure than sure dead.

The safest risk is the one you didn't take.

...there is not a man in the world who can tell to-day what he will do to-morrow.

If the shoe fits, buy it in every color!

Acting Captain Warms' first terrible miscalculation came when he executed the textbook turn into the wind to meet the storm squall.

Vedete, così la penso io: se al bene che vorrei fare si avvicina troppo un grande male, allora preferisco non fare affatto il bene. Perché il male noi sappiamo benissimo qual è, il bene molto meno.»

If God were to hold all Truth concealed in his right hand, and in his left only the steady and diligent drive for Truth, albeit with the proviso that I would always and forever err in the process, and to offer me the choice, I would with all humility take the left hand.

It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission.

The tickets might be returned perhaps, but where would she go?

Well! I decided to bring those two books back to the library. Which proves that when a person or an event comes along to jolt or appraise me I CAN take some appropriate action, although I am better known for my hospitable remarks.

Sooner or later...one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.

But there are times in life when a door opens and you are offered a glimpse of the light on the water, and you know that if you don't take it, that door slams shut, and maybe forever. Maybe you fool yourself into thinking that you had a choice at all; maybe you were always going to say yes. Maybe refusing was no more a choice than is holding your breath. You were always going to breathe. You were always going to say yes.

we [can] catch fish and just throw them back... it [doesn't] seem to hurt the fish much past a cut lip. But then... one [may] swallow the hook...[it'd be] a goner, whether we tried to pull it out or just cut the line. Because once you've swallowed the hook, there's no losing it. Me, I've swallowed it big time.

You fuss too much over making the "right" choice Gaius. All we need do is make a good choice, see it through, and accept the consequences.

more apparent as I got off the plane and headed to the taxi stand. There was no point

What job do you want to do? And I see them all hanging up before me, like clothes on a rack, all the jobs, tinker, tailor, soldier, and you have to pick one and then you have to pretend for the rest of your life that that's what you are. So they aint no different really from accidents of birth. I didn't know that phrase then but I learnt it later. It's a good phrase...

if people begin by thinking rationally, the danger is that they may end by acting rationally also.

You have the choice of deliberately directing your thinking, or allowing other forces to dictate your desires and attitudes.