Quotes About Decision

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, but a thing to be achieved.

When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that.

Life's two Great Questions Why me and What do I do now

A jury verdict is just a guess - a well-intentioned guess, generally, but you simply cannot tell fact from fiction by taking a vote.

could make a decision about whether to call Dr. Vogel as a witness

But it is hard to say no to my brother, whose invitations feel like commands. He says You wanna play golf? with the same presumption that a rich man says to his driver Will you bring the car around?

In court, the thing we punish is the criminal intention. -the mens rea, the guilty mind. There is an ancient rule: actus non facit reum nisi mens sit rea - "the act does not create guilt unless the mind is also guilty." That is why we do not convict children, drunks, and schizophrenics: they are incapable of deciding to commit their crimes with a true understanding of the significance of their actions. Free will is as important to the law as it is to religion or any other code of morality.

When someone offers you lines like that, he must be Mephistopheles and you must be Faust. You know you shouldn't succumb to such language, but you succumb.

I never know whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.

one small decision has the power to make a real difference for the economy

While the first ships were arriving in Dunkirk, Churchill and the war cabinet were meeting for the third time that day, and his own struggle with his Foreign Secretary was now joined: they disagreed about whether Hitler's terms, offered through the Italians, would be outrageous or not. Churchill said they would be worthless. He didn't feel strong enough to oppose him outright, and tried to delay a decision until they knew what was happening in Dunkirk.

The best time to act on this was decades ago. The second best time is now.

Deciding whom to love is an inherently emotional business.

If you trust yourself, any choice you make will be correct. If you do not trust yourself, anything you do will be wrong. - Kung Fu, The Legend Continues -

Who we are is who we choose to be in this very moment.

A committee can make a decision that is dumber than any of its members.

I have brought you to the treasure house of the world. If you leave without it you may henceforth blame nobody but yourself.

I am at liberty to vote as my conscience and judgement dictates to be right, without the yoke of any party on me... Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them!

Be sure that you are right, and then go ahead.

Maker sure you're right, then go ahead.

be always sure you're right, THEN GO AHEAD!

Logic wasn't the governing factor here. It rarely is in human affairs.

Even now when at the end, with nothing left to lose, I cannot identify what I could never choose.

And then, one morning, you're startled to discover that you no longer feel this terrible burden. What a surprise to notice that the angst has disappeared. Why on that particular day? Why not later, or sooner? It's the totalitarian decision of our body.