Quotes About Decision

You may think I'm doing this without taking the time to really think it through, and you're absolutely right. It would take me the rest of my life to think this thing through. But it's while you're thinking, while you're weighing the pros and cons, that life goes on. It passes by you while you're doing nothing. - Arthur

Parce que c'est pendant qu'on calcule, qu'on analyse les pour et les contre, que la vie passe et qu'il ne se passe rien.

Between stimulus and response there is a gap. It's a moment of choice about our actions and reactions. Most people blow past this, react out of habit and then claim they were helpless against themselves. Mind the gap.

Anytime you are tempted to resort to violence, this is the bottom line: if you ain't ready to die for it or kill for it, don't do it.

I once quoted a man as saying, "Violence is the first option, and the last choice, of the competent.

Sometimes, said Miss Phillips, the thing you dread doing the very thing you should do, just so you can stop thinking about it.

Whatever time you choose is the right time. Not late, not early.

Remember how long you have been putting off these things, and how often you have received an opportunity from the gods, and yet do not use it.

Let no act be done without a purpose

Why all this guesswork? You can see what needs to be done. If you can see the road, follow it.

Remember that to change your mind and to accept correction are free acts too. The action is yours, based on your own will, your own decision—and your own mind.

There is a limit circumscribed to your time - if you do not use it to clear away your clouds, it will be gone, and you will be gone, and the opportunity will not return.

According to this theory, man is like a dog tied to a moving wagon. If the dog refuses to run along with the wagon he will be dragged by it, yet the choice remains his: to run or be dragged.

For whatsoever it be, it is in thy power either to do it, or to say it, and therefore seek not any pretences, as though thou wert hindered.

Now it is in our power, not to print them; and if they creep in and lurk in some corner, it is in our power to wipe them off.

No man can rob us of our free will.

If now you choose what is for your spiritual advantage, hold it fast; if what is for your bodily advantage, admit that it is so chosen, and keep your choice with all modesty.

13. Have you reason? 'I have.' Then why not use it? If reason does its part, what more would you ask?

simply and of your own free will, choose the higher and hold fast to that

According to this theory, man is like a dog tied to a moving wagon. If the dog refuses to run along with the wagon he will be dragged by it, yet the choice remains his: to run or be dragged. In the same way, humans are responsible for their choices and actions, even though these have been anticipated by the logos and form part of its plan.

that no one does the wrong thing deliberately;

It was for the best. So Nature had no choice but to do it.

That cucumber is bitter, so toss it out!

Have you reason? I have. Why then do you not use it? When it performs its proper office what more do you require?