Quotes About Decision

When jumping is the sole option, you jump, and try to make it work.

Then I'm going?" Kendra asked. The adults in the room exchanged tacit glances before nodding. Then we only have one more problem left to discuss," Seth said. Everyone turned to him. How do I get invited

The question,' she replied, 'is not whether you will love, hurt, dream, and die. It is what you will love, why you will hurt, when you will dream, and how you will die. This is your choice. You cannot pick the destination, only the path.

I think given the choice between loving Mare - betrayal included - and never knowing her, I'd chose love. I risked, and I lost, but the risk was still worth it.

An excuse is what you make after the deed is done, while a justification is what you offer before.

You can't be so frightened of what might happen that you are unwilling to act.

The question is not whether you will love, hurt, dream, and die. It is what you will love, why you will hurt, when you will dream, and how you will die. This is your choice. You cannot pick the destination, only the path.

Great , Elend thought. I've filled my inner council with a bunch of thrill-seeking masochists. Even worse, I've decided to join them.

Life was so much harder, but potentially so much more fulfilling, when you found the courage to choose.

Kaladin followed [Shallan]. What else could he do? Explain to Adolin? Yes, princeling. I let your betrothed wander off alone in the darkness to get eaten by a chasmfiend. No, I didn't go with her. Yes, I'm a coward.

I need something, Wax. A place to look. You always did the thinking." "Yes, having a brain helps with that, surprisingly.

Once one becomes a man, he can and must make his own decisions. But I do offer warning. Even a good thing can become destructive if taken to excess.

If we can choose, we can change. If we can't change, then choice means nothing. I'm glad I feel this way, to remind me that I haven't always felt the same. Been the same.

People today...it seems they are good, or sometimes evil, mostly by inertia, not by choice.

I don't suppose you'd want to go destroy some evil, would you? the voice said. I'm not really sure what that means, to be honest. I'll just trust you to decide.

You should know by now that I've already had greatness. I traded it for mediocrity and some measure of sanity.

What separates the heroes from the villains? One speech in the night?

Ain't no fellow who regretted giving it one extra shake, but you can bet every guy has regretted giving one too few.

When you can't have both freedom and safety, boy, which do you choose?" Elend was silent. "I make my own choice," he finally said. "And I leave the others to make their own as well.

Because they don't want to make choices anymore, he thought. Choices can be hard.

Have you ever had to choose between two equally distasteful choices?" "Every day I choose to keep breathing.

What else will we do?" I asked, turning to leave. "This is the only plan we have." "This isn't a plan," Prof said. "It's hormones.

How easily Elend spoke of hope and humor, as if being happy were simply a decision one made. Some people assumed that it was. Once, Sazed might have agreed with them. Now, his stomach simply twisted, and he felt sick at the thought of taking pretty much any action. His thoughts were constantly invaded by doubts.

The difference between a successful thief and a dead thief is knowing when to escape with your takings.