Decision Quotes

All change is nothing but a decision. All decisions are controlled by what we link to pain and pleasure.

So if you don't like your life, change it. How would you change it? You decide. There's no action without first decision. Decision is the mother or the father of action, and action is what changes your life.

The person who in shaky times also wavers only increases the evil, but the person of firm decision fashions the universe.

I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.

One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive one.

She asked him to come and see her that night. He agreed, in order to get away, knowing that he was incapable of going. But that night, in his burning bed, he understood that he had to go see her, even if he were not capable. He got dressed by feel, listening in the dark to his brother's calm breathing, the dry cough of his father in the next room, the asthma of the hens in the courtyard, the buzz of the mosquitoes, the beating of his heart, and the inordinate bustle of a world that he had not noticed until then, and he went out in the sleeping street.

I will take the Ring", he said, "though I do not know the way.

Forgiveness is a CHOICE, not a feeling.

We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision. But if a decision itself were voluntary every decision would have to be preceded by a decision to decide - An infinite regression which fortunately does not occur. Oddly enough, if we had to decide to decide, we would not be free to decide

Between the acting of a dreadful thingAnd the first motion, all the interim isLike a phantasma or a hideous dream.

Yes, I answered you last night; No, this morning, sir, I say: Colors seen by candle-light Will not look the same by day.

Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.

Making a true decision means committing to achieving a result, and then cutting yourself off from any other possibility.

I also remember the moment my life changed, the moment I finally said, "I've had it!" I know I'm much more than I'm demonstrating mentally, emotionally, and physically in my life. I made a decision in that moment which was to alter my life forever. I decided to change virtually every aspect of my life. I decided I would never again settle for less that I can be.

Once you have made up your mind, stick to it; there is no longer any 'if' or 'but'.

I'm jealous. I'm mad. I feel bad. But one day, I woke up and I thought, you know what? This is wearing me out. And I'm not getting anywhere. So, I decided that even though I did not have a good beginning, I made a decision that I was going to let go of what lies behind and I was going to have a great finish.

Passion is a decision about how we will approach life, before it becomes a feeling!

Right now you can make a decision, ... If you truly decided to, you can do almost anything. So if you don't liike the current relationship you're in, make the decision now to change it. If you don't like your current job, change it.

Knowing that one is always capable of change, the second step lies in making the decision to change. Change does not occur by merely willing it anymore than behavior changes simply through insight.

Since I do purpose to marry, I will think nothing to any purpose thatthe world can say against it; and therefore never floutat me for what I have said against it; for man is a giddy thing, and this is my conclusion.

Legislative enactments proceed from men carrying their views a long time back; while judicial decisions are made off hand.

Discarding doubt is a decision to reconnect to your original self.

Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.

My formula for happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal.

Bilbo saw that the moment had come when he must do something.

How can I dispose of myself with it?

To be once in doubt Is once to be resolved.

Battles are lost or won in 15 minutes

You can either keep walking in misery or make the decision to begin taking steps out of it.

All right, then, I'll go to hell.

Make the decision to love this day, this place, this moment, this special experience of life with the people around you. And there will be so very much to love.

Do it or don't do it - you will regret both.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.

Contentment with life is not a feeling, but it is a decision we must make.

Remember, a real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to yourcountry, let men label you as they may.

Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake.

I had no desire to be a stand-up comic until I decided to do it.

We [Raymond and Meursault] stared at each other without blinking, and everything came to a stop there between the sea, the sand, and the sun, and the double silence of the flute and the water. It was then that I realized that you could either shoot or not shoot.

And I say to you, I have decided to stick with love, for I know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind's problems. And I'm going to talk about it everywhere I go. For I have seen toomuch hate... every time I see it, I know that it does something to their faces and their personalities, and I say to myself that hate is too great a burden to bear. I have decided to love.

Make every decision based on your last years of life instead of your next 10.

I've decided to stick with love.

Quitting is leading too.

The first thing these people have who succeed, who are fulfilled, is that they’ve decided what the purpose of the game is, at least for right now.

You are now at a crossroads. This is your opportunity to make the most important decision you will ever make. Forget your past. Who are you now? Who have you decided you really are now? Don't think about who you have been. Who are you now? Who have you decided to become? Make this decision consciously. Make it carefully. Make it powerfully.

Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.

We will never enjoy life unless we make a quality decision to do so.

I would never want to live in L.A., and I made that decision years ago, so I never chose that path for myself, although I have much respect for those that do it at a high level.

The heart says yes, but the mind says no.

The thing that cowardice fears most is decision

She said, why don't we both just sleep on it tonight,And I believe, in the morning you'll begin to see the light.And then she kissed me and I realized she probably was right,There must be fifty ways to leave your lover, fifty ways to leave your lover.

My will enkindled by mine eyes and ears, Two traded pilots 'twixt the dangerous shores Of will and judgment.

A decision is the focusing of the Energy of desire, and the decision point happens when the desire is powerful enough.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

He saw before him two roads, both equally straight ; but he saw two; and that terrified him — him, who had never in his life known but one straight line. And, bitter anguish, these two roads were contradictory.

For a decision-the freest of my actions just happens like hiccups inside me or like a bird singing outside me.

The period of debate is closed. Arms, as a last resource, must decide the contest.

Winners win not because they're allowed to, but because they decide to.

His biggest misgiving came from his concern about the loud crash that was bound to occur and would probably create, if not terror, at least anxiety behind all the doors. But that would have to be risked.