Quotes About Decision

Remember, the goal is to take emotion out of investing because emotion is what so often destroys investing success

if you make the decision to master your own mind, you'll be mentally equipped to handle whatever challenges come your way.

Sometimes we've done all the preparation we could for something; there's nothing else we can do—but we still sit around in fear. This is the point when you must use the antidote to fear: you must make a decision to have faith, knowing you've done all you can to prepare for whatever you're fearing, and that most fears in life rarely come to fruition.

I soon discovered this book really isn't about money, it is about creating the life you want, and part of that is deciding what role you want money to play in it. We all have money in our lives; what matters is that you master money and it doesn't master you. Then you are free to live life on your own terms.

Knowledge is power, but execution trumps knowledge, so it's what you do from here that will matter. Yes, I will show you exactly how to reduce your fees, but you must decide to take the necessary action

The first step to this formula is to know your outcome, that is, to define precisely what you want. The second step is to take action

And the smartest investors know just when to enter the market—except for when they don't!

Everything you and I do, we do either out of our need to avoid pain or our desire to gain pleasure.

Prove to yourself that you've decided now. Make one or two decisions that you've been putting off: one easy decision and one that's a bit more difficult. Show yourself what you can do. Right now, stop. Make at least one clear-cut decision that you've been putting off—take the first action toward fulfilling it—and stick to it! By doing this, you'll be building that muscle that will give you the will to change your entire life.

while most people have to establish competence before they feel confident, I decide to feel confident, and that provides the sense of certainty to persist until I am competent.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. —THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Remember, a real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Love is involuntary. It does not often run in a yoke with prudence.

I have all the world to choose from, but no reason whatever for a choice.

Well, then, I'll hope in this case. But, uncle—" "Well, my dear?" "I want your opinion, truly and really. If you were a girl—" "I am perfectly unable to give any opinion founded on so strange an hypothesis.

Mrs Grantly after her father's death. This matter, therefore, had been taken out of the warden's hands

The Sir Charles Grandison business is done and gone. That's what you mean, I suppose? Don't you think we should find it very heavy if we tried to get it back again?" "I'm not going to ask you to be a Sir Charles Grandison, Mr. Eames. But never mind all that now. Do you know that that girl has absolutely had her first sitting for the picture?

As he had said to his daughter, no one knows where the shoe pinches but the wearer. There are some points on which no man can be contented to follow the advice of another, — some subjects on which a man can consult his own conscience only. Our warden had made up his mind that it was good for him at any cost to get rid of this grievance; his daughter was the only person whose concurrence appeared necessary to him, and she did concur with him most heartily.

A noble jilt, my dears," said Mrs. Carbuncle eloquently, "is a contradiction in terms. There can be no such thing. A woman, when she has once said the word, is bound to stick to it. The delicacy of the female character should not admit of hesitation between two men. The idea is quite revolting." "But may not one have an idea of no man at all?" — asked Lucinda. "Must that be revolting also?

If I found I didn't like him, I'd leave him at the altar. If I found I didn't like him, I'd leave him even after the altar. I'd leave him any time I found I didn't like him. It's all very well to talk of aroma, but to live with a man you don't like — is the devil!

Then she asked herself the fatal question, was she in love with Reginald Morton? I do not think that she answered herself in the affirmative, but she became more and more sure that she could never marry Larry Twentyman.

He has put up with it all that he may see the girl he loves." "Psha!" said Frank, rising up from his chair. "When a man has work to do, he is a fool to give way to play. The girl he loves! Does he not know that it is impossible that she should ever marry him? Father, I ought to insist that he should leave this house as a prisoner. I know that that would be my duty.

If you are busy, another time will do as well," continued the bishop, whose courage, like Bob Acres', had oozed out now that he found himself on the ground of battle.