Quotes About Decision

I have hardly had time to think over all that you have told me. It's a big thing for a man to have to understand and to decide at one sitting. I should like to have a quiet hour by myself to make up my mind.

He has spoiled my night's reading, and that's reason enough, if there were no other, why I should steer clear of him in the future.

Every man has his destiny. But who needs to go to a fortune-teller to find it? Do I go to a chef to find out if I'm hungry?

In the instant before the door opened, I could almost sense my life expanding just like a river whose waters have begun to swell; for I had never before taken such a drastic step to change the course of my own future. I was like a child tiptoeing along a precipice overlooking the sea. And yet somehow I hadn't imagined a great wave might come and strike me there, and wash everything away.

A woman living in a grand house may pride herself on all her lovely things; but the moment she hears the crackle of fire she decides very quickly which are the few she values the most.

Every man has his destiny. But who needs to to go to a fortune-teller to find it? Do I go to a chef to find out if I'm hungry? Nobu

One man spat out at Wilkes, "I would rather vote for the Devil than for you," to which Wilkes replied, "And if your friend is not standing?

Reason offers us many possibilities at once. Intuition infallibly chooses the best. Remember this and you cannot err; you will always make the right choice.

Zo komt elke angst in de wereld, zomaar, omdat iemand op een dag besluit te geloven dat er een gevaar bestaat.

Genialiteit is een vorm van domheid. Het enige wat je ervoor moet doen is zonder na te denken grote keuzes maken.

Much depends on asking the right question at the right time.

The less consciously we drift with the wind, the more willingly we do it; the more consciously, the less willingly.

Every decision is like a murder, and our march forward is over the stillborn bodies of all our possible selves that will never be.

PROCTOR--he knows it is insane: No, it is not the same! What others say and what i sign to is not the same!

He might say he had made a mistake in moving to this foreign city—it had seemed like a good idea in California, but now where else could he go?

Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for what might have been

You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing.

Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will. (One can choose what to do, but not what to want.)

Man can do what he wills, but he cannot will what he wills.

Far-sighted, rational deliberation usually comes out in favour of one decision, while immediate inclination comes out for the other. As long as we have to be passive, the balance seems tilted in favour of reason; but we can see in advance how strongly we will be pulled by the other side when the opportunity for acting arises.

For if the choice were given to any individual between his own destruction and that of the world, I do not need to say where it would land in the great majority.

You can do what you will: but at each given moment of your life you can will only one determined thing and by no means anything other than this one.

Conscience accompanies every act with the comment: You should act differently, although its true sense is: You could be other than you are.

You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing and absolutely nothing other than that one thing.