Quotes About Decision

If you're ever dragged from your chambers at midnight, blindfolded and gagged, without being told whether you're off to a firing squad or a surprise birthday party, you'll find that you turn and return to that pivotal moment.

To consider what other people might say is hardly a good reason to take action or to defer it.

But let me remember what I choose.

That's the beginning of heroism, the decision to try.

The person who asks questions like yours always gets to choose the terms

One never learns how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her—is it every the right choice? Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil?

Every choice brings wisdom in its wake. If you got to have the wisdom first, it wouldn't be a choice - just policy. pg. 504

As Solomon said in the Old Book, if two women squabble over which of them is the mother of a certain infant, the way to solve the problem is to cut the baby in half and share the baby in parts.

The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves as well. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen accidents, meetings and material assistance that no one could have dreamed would come their way. Whatever you can do or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now. —Goethe, by attribution

One never learns how the witch becomes wicked or if it was the right choice for he — is it ever the right choice?

I should make one healthy choice, and then stop choosing.

Boredom can be important. That's when you have to figure out what you want to do.

In many situations, we don't need to make a perfect choice but just a good-enough choice.

the real key to habits is decision making—or, more accurately, the lack of decision making

We all must pay, but we can choose that for which we pay.

You can choose what you do, but you can't choose what you like to do.

Something that can be done at any time is often done at no time. Do it now, or decide when you'll do it.

I sat on that crowded bus, I grasped two things: I wasn't as happy as I could be, and my life wasn't going to change unless I made it change. In that single moment, with that realization, I decided to dedicate a year to trying to be happier.

Although people believe they like to have lots of choice, in fact, having too many choices can be discouraging.

Happiness experts point out that merely making and sticking to a decision is a source of happiness, because it gives you a feeling of control, of efficacy, of responsibility. At times of

False Choice Loophole: This is the loophole-seeking strategy I most often invoke. I pose two activities in opposition, as though I have to make an either/or decision, when in fact, the two aren't necessarily in conflict.

What am I waiting for?     What would I do if I weren't scared?     What steps would make things easier?     What would I do if I had all the time and money in the world?     If I were looking back at this decision, five years from now, what will I wish I'd done?

Consistency, repetition, no decision—this was the way to develop the ease of a true habit.

Novelist Jean Rhys observed, "One is born either to go with or to go against.