Quotes About Decision

Or maybe it was too late, and I had already chosen, inadvertently and incrementally, to be something else.

My pristine grief was intermittently marred by dread. I thought of the chilling words a friend of mine had once used to explain why his older sister had married a man she did not love when she was reaching the end of her childbearing years: She had run out of runway.

Whatever lies within our power to do lies also within our power not to do.

Choice not chance determines your destiny [my family motto...credited to Aristotle]

Virtue lies in our power, and similarly so does vice; because where it is in our power to act, it is also in our power not to act...

Choice, not chance, determines your destiny.

What affirmation and denial are in the case of thinking, pursuit and avoidance are in the case of longing for something.

Rash men wish for dangers beforehand but draw back when they are in them. Brave men are excited at the moment of action, but collected beforehand.

I have spoken, you have heard, you have the facts, judge

Beside these there is no other way; for the act is necessarily either done or not done, and those who act either have knowledge or do not.

And, generally speaking, all things are good which men deliberately choose to do;

But what matters for questions of virtue and vice is whether your acts are not merely voluntary but also chosen.

Well then; do men deliberate about everything, and is anything soever the object of Deliberation, or are there some matters with respect to which there is none? (It may be as well perhaps to say, that by object of Deliberation is meant such matter as a sensible man would deliberate upon, not what any fool or madman might.)

All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do

One may have spent one's time badly, but one did spend it; one did do something with it, however ill-advised that something may have been. To do something else means a change of habits.

When in doubt, say nothing and move on.

Then he [The Star Child] waited, marshaling his thoughts and brooding over his still untested powers. For though he was master of the world, he was not quite sure what to do next. But he would think of something.

Sometimes a decision has to be made by a single individual, who has the authority to enforce it. That's why you need a captain. You can't run a ship by a committee—at least not all the time.

In a rare flash of humor, she had replied: "Woody, a commander can be wrong, but never uncertain.

Woody, a commander can be wrong, but never uncertain.

Stormgren had walked to his desk and was fidgeting with his famous uranium paperweight. He was not nervous—merely undecided.

That's still looking a long way ahead. For the present, you're the only person who should attempt communication. Agreed, Captain?

And as for the Council—tell it that a road that has once been opened cannot be closed again merely by passing a resolution.' The

Nicole's intuition told her not to follow the fireflies, but she said nothing.