Quotes About Decision

Don't try to figure out the whole race. Just figure out where to put your foot for the starting line. Just start.

Great success often starts from a tiny beginning—but there has to be a beginning. You have to start somewhere. You have to do something. If you add just 1 percent of anything—skill, knowledge, effort—per day, in a year it will have more than tripled. But you have to start with the 1 percent. Greatness is not something predetermined, predestined, or carved into your fate by forces beyond your control. Greatness is always in the moment of the decision.

Everything you do, every decision you make, is either building your dream or building someone else's dream. Every single thing you do is either leading you away from the masses—or leading you away with the masses. Every single thing you do is a slight edge decision.

That's the choice you face every day, every hour: A simple, positive action, repeated over time. A simple error in judgment, repeated over time. So easy to do. So easy not to do.

Greatness is not something predetermined, predestined, or carved into your fate by forces beyond your control. Greatness is always in the moment of the decision.

Greatness is always in the moment of the decision.

Focus on what you hope will happen outside the system to make decisions about what's inside the system.

But the alternative is the "HiPPO" method — the "highest paid person's opinion." That one sucks worse.

College? Who needed college. Kobe Bryant had decided to take his talents to the NBA.

Meade looked at Grant, and Grant turned, moved toward his tent, said quietly, "General, a moment, if you please Ã¢â'¬Â¦

That's right, kid. Never play an ace if a two will do.

Naming our kid was a real trial. I seize up when I have to name a document on my computer. I didn't name my son after me. What if he turns into a maniac? How'd you like to be Jeffrey Dahmer, Senior?

If Raiders of the Lost Ark taught us anything, it's that you don't swing your sword at somebody who has a gun.

Gotta kill the monster before you bring a kid into the world.

Though I'd considered the idea of killing him a million times, once I made the decision to actually do it, I knew it had to be that night. It was sort of like that big public speaking engagement you're dreading, and you just want it to be over so you can stop worrying about it.

For the next few minutes I reviewed my available options, and I came up with the following plan: hope that somebody showed up to rescue me. Or,

Do you want to embrace eternal life, or do you want to be like those whiny vampires?

Nobody makes good choices when they aren't aware they're making a choice.

My free will was compromised, if only by the severe temptation of the unknown.

Solitude could press down on a person, seem to demand that action be taken.

Never do something for just one reason.

The greatest happiness of life was to stand at the difficult border between success and failure.

Ese día mi suerte quedó echada.

The revolver was black and nearly new. I was afraid to even touch it, for in it lay all the whole difference between what I was and what I was going to be.