Quotes About Decision

If you only learn to master one moment in your life, learn to master the moment of decision.

The unexpected is either a curse or an opportunity. We get to decide.

Given a few days to contemplate it, the firing on Fort Sumter had cut through what had been a tangle of painful questions and a thicket obscuring who bore responsibility for thrusting them on the country.

The end must justify the means.

The ends must justify the means.

She wondered if she'd taken the first step on the road away from her dreams. What scared her was how easy it had been to do it.

Consideremos, por ejemplo, la omnipotencia, pues un creador ha de ser onmipotente: o bien el creador no decide crear, y en ese caso pierde su omnipotencia, pues la creación se hace sin el concurso de su voluntad, o bien crea voluntariamente y ya no es todo poderoso, porque crea bajo la influencia del deseo de crear.

Happiness is not given to us, nor is misery imposed. At every moment we are at a crossroads and must choose the direction we will take.

twenty-eight years old, getting elective surgery

The funny thing about stop signs is that they're also start signs.

Look! A riddle! Time for fun! Should we use a rope or gun? Knives are sharp and gleam so pretty Poison's slow, which is a pity Fire is festive, drowning's slow Hanging's a ropy way to go A broken head, a nasty fall A car colliding with a wall Bombs make a very jolly noise Such ways to punish naughty boys! What shall we use? We can't decide. Just like you cannot run or hide. Ha ha. Truly, Devious

Midnight falls when the dice are cast, but one can only cast the dice at Midnight.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.

On lui donnait le moyen de se sauver seul. Tout homme sensé, à qui l'on fait une proposition de cette sorte, la considère, et n'en a que plus de mérite lorsqu'il la repousse. (Le roi de fer, partie 3, ch. 6, p. 322)

No nation permits herself to be coerced to the one crime that man cannot pardon. It is of her own accord that she hastens towards it; her chief has no need to persuade, it is she who urges him on.

It is the unconscious which chooses what aspect of us will be admitted to official existence.

True philosophy entails learning to see the world anew, and in this sense, an historical account might signify the world with as much 'depth' as a philosophical treatise. We take our fate into our own hands and through reflection we become responsible for our own history, but this responsibility also comes from a decision to which we commit our lives; and in both cases it is a violent act whose truth is confirmed through its being performed.

History is not made in advance...It depends on the will and audacity of men upon occasion, and...it contains an element of contingency and risk.

We cannot say at what moment the decision is taken: it is always to be taken or already taken.

What is a 'decision'? A kind of failure, like the cracking of a falling tree--decision is not ex nihilo, is not of the now, always anticipated, because we are everything, everything has accomplices in us. One does not decide to do but allow to happen.

For a girl, the wedding is when you're married. For a guy, it's when you get engaged. It takes a real aggressive human being to back out between the ring and the wedding.

Am I making this decision because it's smart or because a majority says it's smart?

It is incontrovertible that the First World War was a catastrophe for Europe. It remains hard to see, however, by what means its statesmen could have extracted themselves from the struggle once it began, in advance of a decision on the battlefield.