Quotes About Decision

We make each decision to abandon the practice of holiness because we don't believe that God is present now or because we don't believe he'll show up later.

We therefore tend to rely on willpower alone. This never works because the ideal sequence above is opposed by a stronger and more primitive one: Stimulus – Reaction. Without the right structures to keep it under control, Stimulus – Reaction will always tend to overwhelm Thought – Decision – Action.

The problem that this amount of random activity causes is that it's not just what gets done that is random – what doesn't get done is random too. This means that whether something gets done or not is as much a matter of chance as of rational decision.

WILL'S RULES FOR LIVING #15: AN OPEN DOOR IS EITHER A GREETING OR A TRAP. BEST TO DECIDE WHICH BEFORE YOU ENTER.

The circumstances of a life must not dictate our terms of living it; that decision resides only in one's reaction to circumstance.

But if you always play it safe, it's a safe bet you'll end up sorry.

In the end we regret not what we have done but what we have not done.

Sometimes the easy way out is the right way in.

The decision for the I-40 route had been made quietly in 1957 at a nonpublic meeting of white business leaders and state highway officials.

What will you do with Jesus?      Neutral you cannot be.      Someday your heart will be asking,           What will He do with me?

Signs of communist domination of the andartes were not difficult to find, but at the same time there was no indication that the KKE desired to seize power by force. On the contrary, what evidence there is suggests that the KKE - in so far as its divided leadership was capable of any decisions at all in the absence of a clear lead from Moscow - had decided not to seize power at a time when it could easily have done so.

When leaders lead well, not everyone is going to be happy.

there are no wrong turns, only unexpected paths.

When we keep choosing between right and wrong. We spend our energy sorting life rather than living it.

Given the world, given the situation, the question that remains is whether having children is a statement of hope, an insistence on the beauty and meaningfulness and basic worth of being here, or an act of human sacrifice.

Never date a woman you can hear ticking.

Every reader is a casting director.

Conflict is the essence of a novel. Conflict, conflict, and more conflict. Oh, and choices.

Every step you take, a million doors open in front of you like poppies; your next step closes them, and another million bloom. You get on a train, you pick up a lamp, you speak, you don't. What decides why one thing gets picked to be the way it will be? Accident? Fate? Some weakness in ourselves? Forget your harps, your tin-foil angels—the only heaven worth having would be the heaven of answers.

You decide; then you act. You choose faith; then you walk through the door.

Pino forced himself to stop. He could not let fear take control of his brain. Fear had no business here. He had to think, and he had to think clearly.

The Akali Dai's decision to adopt Bhindranwale was rank political opportunism.

The decision to release Bhindranwale was taken by the government.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.