Quotes About Decision

So I said I'd had a headache all day (which was true) and on second thought I would go home to bed, and I was sorry. I was out the door again not five minutes after I'd gone in. Mel

As I came to know him better, the fear changed to pity, and then, almost, to sorrow; but I could not marry him, however much I came to dislike hurting him.

The decision on when to break off an attack, like the decision to launch it, is one requiring careful calculation and fine judgement. That said, Haig's judgement in fighting on into the early winter of 1916, when he could have stopped after Flers, is a clear error.

Awareness precedes choice and choice precedes change.

Each day, life will send you little windows of opportunity. Your destiny will ultimately be defined by how you respond to these windows of opportunity.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it

I knew I had to change so I decided to listen to my heart and do it in a very dramatic way

Most people believe that it takes months and years to transform their lives. Actually, you can literally change your life in an instant by making a single decision never to go back to the way you have been living—no matter what. What takes months, years and sometimes decades is the maintenance required to live by that decision.

I thought that, ultimately, life is all about choices. One's destiny unfolds according to the choices one makes, and I felt certain that the choice I had made was the right one. I knew my life would never be the same and that something marvellous, maybe even miraculous, was about to happen to me. It was an amazing awakening.

we spend our days waiting for the ideal path to appear in front of us. We forget that paths are made by walking, not waiting.

One of the lessons I have learned in my own life is that if you don't act on life, life has a habit of acting on you. The days slip into weeks, the weeks slip into months and the months slip into years. Pretty soon it's all over and you are left with nothing more than a heart filled with regret over a life half lived.

There is nothing so unpardonable as to consent to a senseless, aimless and purposeless life.

Actually, it was the easiest thing I have ever done. The decision to give up my practice and all my worldly possessions felt natural. Albert Camus once said that 'Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.

By the time most people figure out what they really want and how to go about attaining it, it's usually too late.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it," observed David Starr Jordan.

Take bold risks yet hedge them with common sense.

It's wiser to take a chance and risk looking foolish (yet know that you did it) than miss the opportunity and end up empty and heartbroken, on your last day.

I still remember the words that were going through my mind up there," said Julian. "I thought that, ultimately, life is all about choices. One's destiny unfolds according to the choices one makes, and I felt certain that the choice I had made was the right one. I knew my life would never be the same and that something marvellous, maybe even miraculous, was about to happen to me. It was an amazing awakening.

The flow of life rewards positive action and punishes hesitation

by the time most people figure out what they really want and how to go about attaining it, it's usually too late. That saying, if youth only knew, if age only could, is so true

Cuando os enfrentéis a una elección, optad siempre por la que más os haga crecer, por la que aumente vuestro desarrollo y promueva el despliegue de vuestras capacidades, vuestro talento y vuestro valor.

Calculated risk taking will pay huge dividends. How will you ever get to third base with one foot on second? The biggest risk is not taking risks.

Tal vez había llegado la hora de reinventar mi destino

Either you set your goals and, in doing so, have your life governed by choice or you do nothing and have your life governed by chance.