Quotes About Decision

There are proverbs about frying pans and fires that I might have quoted to myself, but I preferred to adapt a different one to my purposes: better the devil that would attack everyone impartially than the devil specifically looking to kill us.

There's a bit of difference between swimming in shark-infested water because you're trying to retrieve something from the bottom, and staying in just because you're already there and haven't been eaten yet.

There may not be even two men living in the world whom I would have agreed to marry, certainly not on such short notice. But I do not need two; I only need one.

All beliefs are a choice and choices can be changed.

Instead of saying, What's the point? ask yourself, What's the next right move?

Know that you cannot help but judge. What you then do with your judgment is the choice." — Story Waters, author and spiritual teacher

When you're stuck in a paralyzing thought loop of indecision, stop thinking and start doing. Make a move, no matter how tiny.

Practice becoming aware of what you're thinking (i.e., believing) and know that, at any moment, you get to decide if you want to continue believing that thought.

The key to demolishing the time excuse is to first embrace the fact that everything you're doing with your twenty-four hours is a choice. Your choice. A choice that you make and a choice you can change.

If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.

C — Choose. What's my choice?

Things happen to us all the time. You don't have much choice about that. But where we do have choice is in what we do with what happens.

Who gets to choose what battle takes her down?

I decided to make music again at a time when I couldn't have had more obstacles.

Choosing a life of safety is safely choosing something other than life.

Either we are running 'from' what we fear, or running 'to' what we fear. The former is a choice driven by fear, the latter is an action inspired by it.

To intentionally pass on opportunity is to intentionally pass on living.

Would it be better to feel afraid all the time or to feel nothing at all? She hadn't decided yet.

Is the goal I've set been determined by a desire to avoid the goal I should have set?

Doing nothing was as honourable as any available course of action. Think of Hamlet, think of Job, think of Jesus before Pilate.

Surrender is a choice, it is never a calling.

You can't let the fear of failure keep you from taking the risks that you know are the right ones to take.

there is nothing to be feared except a result of our own actions

No matter how long the preparation, you will never feel ready to write an exam, to start a business, to be parent or even to die. Just go for it.