Quotes About Decision

It may sound as if I'm cherry-picking

The world will shape you if you let it. To live the life you desire, you must make conscious choices. —John Donahoe, CEO, eBay

New Rule: If you can force a woman to look at a sonogram—to see what will happen if she has an abortion—you also have to let her see a crying baby, a bratty five-year-old, and a surly teenager to see what will happen if she doesn't. And you have to tell her it costs $204,000 to raise it until it turns eighteen, in 2028, where it will be a slave to the Chinese, in a radioactive world with no animals, fish, or plants.

The point is, a leader does what he thinks is right, not what he thinks the popular thing is.

Every time I've built character, I've regretted it.

Calvin: The more you know, the harder it is to take decisive action. Once you are informed, you start seeing complexities and shades of gray. You realize nothing is as clear as it first appears. Ultimately, knowledge is paralyzing. Being a man of action, I cannot afford to take that risk. Hobbes: You're ignorant, but at least you act on it.

Even if lives did hang in the balance, it would depend on whose they were.

Tennis taught me so many lessons in life. One of the things it taught me is that every ball that comes to me, I have to make a decision. I have to accept responsibility for the consequences every time I hit a ball.

Never make a permanent decision about a temporary situation.

We never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when we do it out of conscience.

The will is one of the chief organs of belief, not because it creates belief, but because things are true or false according to the aspect by which we judge them. When the will likes one aspect more than another, it deflects the mind from considering the qualities of the one it does not care to see. Thus the mind, keeping in step with the will, remains looking at the aspect preferred by the will and so judges by what it sees there.

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature, necessity, and can believe nothing else. If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible, since, having neither parts nor limits, He has no affinity to us. We are then incapable of knowing either what He is or if He is. This being so, who will dare to undertake the decision of the question? Not we, who have no affinity to Him.

La chose la plus importante à toute vie est le choix d'un métier : le hasard en dispose.

Both he who chooses heads and he who chooses tails are equally at fault. They are both in the wrong. True course is not to wager at all.

You're gonna have to serve somebody; well, it may be the devil, or it may be the Lord, but you're gonna have to serve somebody...

I failed to communicate, that's why I chose to leave

Everything passes, Everything changes, Just do what you think you should do.

I can't think for you, you'll have to decide, whether Judas Iscariot had god on his side

I'm gonna walk out

I had no business trying to see you leave, see death arrive, I owe you an apology, an elegy, I owe you the drift of memory, the praise of everything, of saying it was the best decision of my life, to hold you full, hold you empty, & live as the only bond between the two.

You can always turn no into yes, and usually make people happy, but it's a lot harder – sometimes too late - to change yes to no.

You always have a choice. It's just that you have to pay the price that goes along with your choice.

Change is inevitable but personal growth is a choice.

You are the only problem you will ever have and you are the only solution. Change is inevitable, personal growth is always a personal decision.