Quotes About Decision

you're going to have a wreck in a truck and someone comes along and offers you a ride in a truck, then do not accept it.

The classic decision is always the same, whether to retreat or go on. There comes a time when it is easier to continue upward, when the summit, in fact, is the only way out. At such a moment one must still have strength.

What I found was a moment where the main character has to figuratively look at himself, as in the mirror. He is confronted with a disturbing truth: change or die.

With Malone's decision to parse the plays for evidence of what an author thought or felt, literary biography had crossed a Rubicon.

He who hesitates is sometimes saved.

Against the may, the could be, and the should, folly 'tis to balance doubt or hope.

I would rather live my life than not live it.

An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.

Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.

Men of sense, whatever you may choose to say, do not want silly wives.

I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him.

I was so anxious to do what is right that I forgot to do what is right.

A woman is not to marry a man merely because she is asked, or because he is attached to her, and can write a tolerable letter.

if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. If she can hesitate as to `Yes,' she ought to say `No' directly. It is not a state to be safely entered into with doubtful feelings, with half a heart.

I am determined that nothing but the deepest love could ever induce me into matrimony. [Elizabeth]

An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents.

My being charming…is not quite enough to induce me to marry. I must find other people charming - one other person at least.

Tienes una triste alternativa ante ti, Elizabeth: debes renunciar a uno de tus padres. Tu madre no quiere volver a verte si no te casas con Collins, y yo no quiero volver a verte si te casas con él.

You must be the best judge of your own happiness. If you prefer Mr. Martin to every other person; if you think him the most agreeable man you have ever been in company with, why should you hesitate?

Only the deepest love will persuade me into matrimony, which is why I will end up an old maid.

after all that is bewitching in the idea of a single and constant attachment, and all that can be said of one's happiness depending entirely on any particular person, it is not meant--it is not fit--it is not possible that it should be so. --Edward will marry Lucy

How unfortunate, considering I have decided to loathe him for eternity

what must be at last had better be soon.

If I was wrong in yielding to persuasion once, remember that it was to persuasion exerted on the side of safety, not of risk