Quotes About Decision

What people CAN do is very different from what they WILL do.

It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.

The question of how to spend my life, of what my life is for, is a question posed only to me, and I can no more delegate the responsibility for answering it than I can delegate the task of dying.

I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.

It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something.

My faith is a choice. My morality is a choice. My sexual orientation however isn't.

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.

If you cry "Forward," you must make plain in what direction to go.

To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.

if it comes to a choice between being a good soldier and a good human being -- try to be a good human being".

If I were asked to chose between execution and life in prison I would, of course, chose the latter. Its better to live somehow than not at all.

Like her marriage, Marie Antoinette's death was a political decision.

But a man cannot renounce his life for half a day: There is either the rest of eternity or nothing.

El que se casa se siente elegido y a la vez siente el placer y la responsabilidad de elegir. Se comprende que no se ha agotado la posibilidad de elegir y de ser elegido

La biblioteca se hace igual con lo que se elige como con lo que queda descartado.

she decided to break things off (...) with a determination that left no room for ambiguity or remorse, and perhaps had also made her immune to pain.

No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job.

La vita è un appuntamento, lo so di dire una banalità Monsieur, solo che noi non sappiamo mai il quando, il chi, il come, il dove. E allora uno pensa: se avessi detto questo invece di quello, o quello invece di questo, se mi fossi alzato tardi invece che presto, o presto invece che tardi, oggi sarei impercettibilmente differente, e forse tutto il mondo sarebbe impercettibilmente differente. O sarebbe lo stesso e io non potrei saperlo.

Preferisco l'angoscia ad una pace marcia, affermò lui, tra le due cose preferisco l'angoscia.

E anche questo mi dà il senso di una libertà bella e superflua, come quando hai pensato a lungo di fare una certa cosa e finalmente ci sei riuscito. E ora, che fare?

Churchill once remarked that the Americans always came to the right decision, having tried everything else first. But even if the joke contained an element of truth, it underplayed the fact that they learned much more quickly than their self-appointed tutors in the British Army. They were not afraid to listen to bright civilians from the business world now in uniform and above all they were not afraid to experiment. The

He's suffering from Politician's Logic. Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it.

A man may remain single by choice, but a woman only by compulsion.