Quotes About Decision

It's against my principles to buy a book I haven't read, it's like buying a dress you haven't tried on.

Big changes don't happen at the battlefield; they are made in closed rooms where very powerful people decide in which direction things should go.

Aunque más adelante he elegido mal de vez en cuando en la vida, nunca podrá compararse con la derrota que supone no elegir en absoluto.

Tener la posibilidad de decidir a qué quiere uno dedicar su vida es un gran privilegio.

Even a short-lived visit to the bottom level of society means that one is faced with one of the most important decisions one has to make in life: what type of society do you want to help to create? This is the question that has come to dominate my whole life.

there was no such thing as past or future. There was no time that could be lost or won. The only thing that counted was action.

Life tosses us all hither and thither. Is there anything we can truly decide for ourselves?

Wallander felt on the verge of misconduct.

If you're gonna do something tonight that you'll regret tomorrow morning, sleep late

Men do not sufficiently realize that their future is in their own hands. Theirs is the task of determining first of all whether they want to go on living or not. Theirs is the responsibility, then, for deciding if they want merely to live, or intend to make just the extra effort required for fulfilling, even on this refractory planet, the essential function of the universe, which is a machine for the making of gods.

Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait until that other is ready, and it may be a long time before they get off.

A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority.

Read your fate, see what is before you, and walk on into futurity.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way

If you are ready to leave father and mother, and brother and sister, and wife and child and friends, and never see them again—if you have paid your debts, and made your will, and settled all your affairs, and are a free man—then you are ready for a walk.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

What is it that makes it so hard sometimes to determine whither we will walk? I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright.

Never look back unless ypu are planning to go that way.

Can there not be a government in which the majorities do not virtually decide right and wrong, but conscience?

L'hésitation est le propre de l'intelligence.

when a lady hath once taken a resolution to run to a lover, or to run from him, all obstacles are considered as trifles.

if you are going to be pushed you had better jump

She liked him too much to marry him, that was the point; something told her that she should not be satisfied, and to inflict upon a man who offered so much a wife with a tendency to criticize would be a peculiarly discreditable act.