Quotes About Decision

The safest risk is the one you didn't take.

Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice.

Tis the advisor who suffers from bad advice.

Ahora depende solo de mí la manera de reaccionar ante lo que he llegado a ser y ante lo que pueda hacer con lo que soy.

Failing to meet your true destiny is a tragic act of free will.

When a man cannot chose, he ceases to be a man.

What's it going to be then, eh?

Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?

The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.

I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong.

What's it going to be then, eh?

A person can't choose where he's born. But he can choose where he spends his life.

Whatever the dangers of the action we take, the dangers of inaction are far, far greater.

So, of course, the visions are painted in the colours of the rainbow, and the reality is sketched in duller tones of black and white and grey. But I ask you to accept one thing. Hand on heart, I did what I thought was right. I may have been wrong. That is your call. But believe one thing, if nothing else. I did what I thought was right for our country.

Yes, I did have to struggle very hard to get this [the vote on the Iraq war] through, but the reason I did it was because I thought it was the right thing to do. I didn't take this on myself... just because I thought, 'Let's give myself a really hard time for a couple of years!'

George and I talked. An hour passed. Surely we both had things to do. There was a silence. Nervously. 'Please, may I play the part?' George paused. Then quietly, 'Shurr.' Not even a word. Hardly a syllable. A sound. A small sound above the London traffic. It changed my life.

Am I following a path already laid out for me, or am I making it myself?

Every part of him wants to scream: is this not wrong? But here it is right.

To select one word was to commit to a single path when the maze contains thousands.

Te parece correcto —le pregunta— hacer algo solo porque todo el mundo lo hace?

Hadn't the actors acted of their own volition?

Marie-Laure will indeed smell something, whether because her uncle is passing coffee grounds beneath her nose, or because they really are flying over the coffee trees of Boreno, she does not want to decide (151).

that a thousand choices were implicit in a single moment.