Quotes About Decision

A man who loves his daughter does not let her go into Wales.

The Tippoo should have killed you when he had the chance. We all make mistakes, sir.

we fight them where we choose or where we must, not always when we want.

in uncertainty lies opportunity.

How many's that?" I asked the shepherd. "Jiggit and mumph, lord," he said. "Is that enough?" "It's enough, lord." "Kill the rest then," I said. "Jiggit and mumph?" Willibald asked, still shivering. "Twenty and five," I said. "Yain, tain, tether, mether, mumph. It's how shepherds count. I don't know why. The world is full of mystery.

Is all ordained? Foreknowledge is not fate, and we may choose our paths, yet fate says we may not choose them. So if fate is real, do we have a choice?

I decided to start a war, father, I said, cheerfully, it's so much more interesting than peace.

Frederick the Great once said that the greatest crime in war is not to make the wrong decision, but to make no decision.' Again the Prince gestured at Sharpe with the brandy glass. 'You should remember that axiom, Sharpe!' Sharpe did not even know what an axiom was, but he nodded respectfully. 'I will, sir.

We each have to choose something but it is another question how and why we presume to choose for others.

Alfred has trapped you, Uhtred." "No," I said, "the spinners did that." Ur r, Ver andi, and Skuld, the three women who spin our threads at the foot of Yggdrasil, had decided my fate. Destiny is all. "I shall go to my woman," I said.

Stout Gudleif kneeled and spiked the shaft of his spear into the ground, then dug into the fresh snow with his hands and formed a snowball. The snow crunched softly as he pressed it. Gudleif looked to Mandred, and the jarl nodded. The snowball flew in a wide arc into the bush. Nothing moved.

Often enough in my life I have done things I had not decided to do.

Ou não há 'tarde demais', apenas 'tarde', sendo 'tarde' de qualquer modo melhor do que 'nunca'?

Pero la acción no se limita a llevar a cabo lo que he pensado y decidido previamente. Surge de una fuente propia, y es tan independiente como lo es mi pensamiento y lo son mis decisiones.

Imagine someone is racing intentionally towards his own destruction and you can save him - do you go ahead and save him?

Pienso, llego a una conclusión, la conclusión cristaliza en una decisión, y entonces me doy cuenta de que la acción es algo aparte, algo que puede seguir a la decisión, pero no necesariamente

Ich dachte, wenn die rechte Zeit verpaßt ist, wenn einer etwas zu lange verweigert hat, wenn einem etwas zu lange verweigert wurde, kommt es zu spät, selbst wenn es schließlich mit Kraft angegangen und mit Freude empfangen wird. Oder gibt es zu spät nicht, gibt es nur spät, und ist spät allemal besser als nie? Ich weiß es nicht.

Penso, chego a um resultado, mantenho o resultado preso a uma decisão e faço a experiência de que a ação é uma coisa por si mesma, que pode mas não tem de seguir a decisão. Com bastante frequência no decorrer da minha vida fiz o que não tinha decidido e deixei de fazer o que tinha decidido.

Ich meine nicht, daß Denken und Entscheiden keinen Einfluß auf das Handeln hätten. Aber das Handeln vollzieht nicht einfach, was davor gedacht und entschieden wurde. Es hat seine eigene Quelle und ist auf ebenso eigenständige Weise mein Handeln, wie mein Denken ist und mein Entscheiden mein Entscheiden.

Aber gibt es zu spät nicht, gibt es nur spät, und ist spät allemal besser als nie? Ich weiß es nicht.

Patience and boredom are closely related. Boredom, a certain kind of boredom, is really impatience. You don't like the way things are, they aren't interesting enough for you, so you deccide- and boredom is a decision-that you are bored.

Having made the decision, do not revise it unless some new fact comes to your knowledge. Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.

Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn

Prudence versus passion is a conflict that runs through history. It is not a conflict in which we ought to side wholly with either party.