Quotes About Decision

I thought you'd rather have a live donkey than a dead lion.

Many people, not least those people who come to therapy, convince themselves that there are alternative options to choose where none exist.

The tragedy of a life that is never fully lived is not simply the loss of that one life. The tragedy is the endless number of lives that would have been forever changed if we had chosen to live differently.

I made a decision that while cancer may define how I die, it would not define how I live.

Three powerful life-changing words passed on from God to us: Now choose life! Right now, this moment, put away the baggage from the past, shake yourself free from the fear of the future unknown. Right now, choose life—seize your divine moment. A

The most spiritual activity you will engage in today is making choices.

We have no control over the reality that in this world we will have trouble, but we have control over whether we decide to allow our hearts to be troubled.

It is often possible to decide the issue of a battle merely by making an unexpected shift of one's main weight.

Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning

I point out to Ben that, contrary to popular belief, taking action is not always the best course.

They could neither go back nor remain in place. Like their wagons, they had no brakes, no way of stopping the high-stakes journey on which they had wagered their lives and fortunes.

My father did not bring it up, but of course I knew that he had another reason to worry about my decision to write. Though he was a reader, he was not a lover of fiction, because fiction is not true, and for that flaw it was forever inferior to fact. If reading fiction was a waste of time, so was the writing of it. Why is it, I wonder, that humor didn't count? Wodehouse, for one, whom both of us loved, was a flawless fiction writer.

Note, too, that fiction writers inevitably catch their central characters in situations involving ambiguities, not contradictories. The marshal in High Noon was being asked to choose not between a good and a bad but between two goods (or two bads, depending upon your angle of view).

So it is that once a person has settled on the question as to what is wrong, the choice of cures is limited.

Marshall made his decision, now let him enforce it.

A rock is harder than a feather, you can talk and jabber and make exceptions, but in the end, if you have to choose which one is gonna hit you on the head, you'll choose the feather every single time.

There may come a time when even the most peaceful man alive has to fight or else something truly evil will happen

If any important decision is to be made, they discuss the question when they are drunk, and the following day the master of the house . . . submits their decision for reconsideration when they are sober. If they still approve it, it is adopted; if not, it is abandoned. Conversely, any decision they make when they are sober, is reconsidered afterwards when they are drunk.

No one is fool enough to choose war instead of peace – in peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons.

In order to follow your heart, one must do the wrong thing

Our lives aren't worth dying over.

Lo que cuenta no es dónde empiezas, sino dónde decides terminar.

There's a clarity that arrives when life forces you into a binary situation.

It's a man's job to decide which of a woman's fictions to maintain..." Allan couldn't remember who said that, but it still rang true.