Quotes About Decision

We are not quite sure that the Sermon on the Mount is the Sermon for the mart. We are not sure, and an unsure place is an unsafe place* We must go on or go back. We must be more Christian or less.

Later in his life Gautama told the story of his decision in a sermon: 'And so it came about that, in the full freshness and enjoyment of my youth, in glowing health, my hair still black, and against the wishes of my weeping and imploring elders, I shaved my head and beard, dressed in coarse robes, and forsook the shelter of my home.

Claudia knew that she could never pull off the old-fashioned kind of running away. That is, running away in the heat of anger with a knapsack on her pack. She didn't like discomfort; even picnics were untidy and inconvenient: all those insects and the sun melting the icing on the cupcakes. Therefore, she decided that her leaving home would not be just running from somewhere but would be running to somewhere.

The ends of the earth, the depths of the sea, the darkness of time, you have chosen all three.

I can only do what's easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can't, and won't, attempt difficult relations. If I marry it will either be a man who's strong enough to boss me or whom I'm strong enough to boss. So I shan't ever marry, for there aren't such men. And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say 'Jack Robinson.

One touch of regret- not the canny substitute but the true regret from the heart- would have made him a different man, and the British Empire a different institution.

But that some sonatas of Beethoven are written tragic no one can gainsay; yet they can triumph or despair as the player decides, and Lucy had decided that they should triumph.

Nothing's the same for anyone. That's why life's this Hell, if you do a thing you're damned, and if you don't you're damned—

Anne looked disapproval, but she felt she had entrusted her hundred pounds to the right sort of stock broker.

Don't act. Or act better.

I must get away, ever so far. I must know my own mind and where I want to go.

marry him; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.

It was the closing of a book that would never be read again, and better close such a book than leave it lying about to get dirtied.

or she may have acted from pure caprice, for Joanna was ever as much woman as queen.

The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.

He has been sitting here looking at me more in sorrow than in anger for the better part of an hour, and I've made up my mind to one thing. I shall have no more secrets from the police.

A good deal of frustration and unhappiness could be avoided if people would just do what they know they should do.

It is not what happens to you in life that makes the difference. It is how you react to each circumstance you encounter that determines the result. Every human being in the same situation has the possibilities of choosing how he will react - either positively or negatively.

There is a time when one must decide either to risk everything to fulfill one's dreams or sit for the rest of one's life in the backyard.

A success is anyone who is doing deliberately a worthy predetermined job, because that's what he decided to do ... deliberately.

Ljubav dolazi u trenutku oklijevanja. Jedno malo spoticanje i gotove ste. Godine iskustva, sve pobjede jednog života...Ljubav ?eka vaše maleno oklijevanje, a onda se ruši pala?a koju ste sagradili.

Our mistake wasn't that we didn't do what we could have done, rather that we didn't know that we should have done it earlier.

Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it's no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.

a lot of lives in Vietnam were wasted by the folks driving those big desks in Washington. It's easy to make a decision when you don't have to look the people in the eye who have to carry it out. And reminding people of that is my purpose with this book.