Decisions Quotes - Page 3

It's not hard to decide what you want your life to be about. What's hard, she said, is figuring out what you're willing to give up in order to do the things you really care about.

Destiny deals you your hand and what you do with the cards is up to you.

I’m not forcing you to do anything. You need to make your own damn decisions . And I'm not playing this game where we ignore reality and pretend to have a normal conversation for a few hours. You need to face reality and stop turning life into a movie. I'm not a puppet in your show. This is real life and you're always trying to ignore it for some cheap fantasy version where no problems exist. That's not noble of you, okay? You're not strong. You're a weak person like the rest of us. You've just learned to excel at avoiding issues. But there are issues . Life has so many freaking issues and if you can't force your own self to face life and make decisions without someone telling you what the hell to do, you're just going to end up another chess piece moved around by others.

Not to decide is to decide.

If decisions were a choice between alternatives decisions would come easy. Decision is the selection and formulation of alternatives.

There’s no such thing as fate. It’s just the word men give to decisions which have worked out badly.

people decided that trees have no feelings

Even if we have ourselves so fully convinced that we are on the right track because we desperately want to believe that the specific direction we have chosen is the "correct one", if the universe disagrees with our choices, it will not be shy in telling us so.

In life you hoped to do what you could but mostly you did what you were told and that was the end of it.

No matter how lovesick a woman is she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along.

Har' icyumba satani atemerewe kujyamo n'umutima wawe kereste wowe umwemereye

Opinions are the cheapest commodities on earth. Everyone has a flock of opinions ready to be wished upon anyone who will accept them. If you are influenced by "opinions" when you reach DECISIONS, you will not succeed in any undertaking.

If you are ever in doubt about which way you should travel, make a choice that contains the essence of goodness and love and then go in that direction. This way, you can have absolute faith that you made the right decision.

I am far too often the author of terribly poor decisions. Yet I must rest in the unalterable fact that God says I am far better than what the sum total of those decisions would ever suggest.

You can't live in your mind and expect those dreams to become real, without the work. Reality requires actions that might feel scary, but that is what is required if you want to find true love. Don't expect it to come and rescue you. You have to rescue yourself.

He felt that he was still groping in the dark; he had chosen his path but kept looking back, wondering whether he had misread the signs, whether he should not have taken the other way.

Decisions are the privilege we’ve been granted to have a hand in penning the script of our lives. And in the writing, the question is not the availability of the paper or the pen. The question is the wisdom to use them rightly.

Pretty soon all of us will be issued with hand scanners. That way when we met another person, whether we know them or not we can scan their ID cards. That way we will know whether to smile, frown, grimace, talk, walk away, laugh, shake their hand, give them a kiss, have a coffee with them, invite them over to your house, do business with them, have sex, go to a football game, have drinks or dinner together. I'm glad that our lives are getting so organized for us, because I would have to hate to make my own decisions concerning my own life.

Form the habit of making decisions when your spirit is fresh ... to let dark moods lead is like choosing cowards to command armies.

️Don't say "I'm a worrier and this is just who I am"!, or "I've always been a worrier, I can't help it"; instead decide from this day forward to become someone who DOESN'T worry.

By the time your perfect information has been gathered, the world has moved on.

Wisdom makes decisions today that will still be good tomorrow.

Sometimes I think if we didn’t have these problems the whole world would stop spinning on her axis, we’d all stop spinning on our axises, axes, or whatever you want to call them, and then we’d have to settle into the nasty business of finding a way to be happy.

The right path is characterised by rough road.

Fear and anxiety affect decision making in the direction of more caution and risk aversion... Traumatized individuals pay more attention to cues of threat than other experiences, and they interpret ambiguous stimuli and situations as threatening (Eyesenck, 1992), leading to more fear-driven decisions. In people with a dissociative disorder, certain parts are compelled to focus on the perception of danger. Living in trauma-time, these dissociative parts immediately perceive the present as being "just like" the past and "emergency" emotions such as fear, rage, or terror are immediately evoked, which compel impulsive decisions to engage in defensive behaviors (freeze, flight, fight, or collapse). When parts of you are triggered, more rational and grounded parts may be overwhelmed and unable to make effective decisions.

If you always make the right decision, the safe decision,the one most people make, you will be the same as everyone else.

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

One must either accept some theory or else believe one's own instinct or follow the world's opinion.

Personal Responsibility is an act of being responsible for results and consequences of your decisions, actions and in-actions in a given situation or circumstance.

Then I’ll have more fun searching in vain then marrying one of the wrong sort.

lack of sound mind and judgment – the ability to make considered decisions or come to sensible conclusions, is a matter of frustration and disillusionment to God

No decision-making system is going to guarantee corporate success. The strategic decisions that corporations have to make are of mind-numbing complexity. But we know that the more power you give a single individual in the face of complexity and uncertainty, the more likely it is that bad decisions will get made.

Do not let go of your right to make your own decisions, because by doing so you are letting go of who you really are.

Decisions determine destiny.

Take caution when declaring war because you may believe it will be easy, but war will always end in despair.

We are chained by our own control. Life is nothing more than finding the key that unlocks every part of our soul.

You are not who you say you are but rather what you do. Look at what it is that you do. If you don't like what you see: decide what you would like to see instead. Make those changes. Realize your potential. Harness your power. Seize every opportunity and do what it is that allows you to be true to yourself. Don't deny yourself your path. Only you can decide. Only you have that power. Only you are living your life.

Wherever you see a successful business someone once made a courageous decision.

Be aware that how you feel has a direct impact on your thinking process. When we set standards for ourselves they seem objective, but standards and goal-setting are totally subjective and personal." From The Biology of Success.

I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.

Deciding which relationships to pursue can be difficult. Especially if you’re trying to get hired by the Magic 8 Ball factory and that little triangle thing isn't floating right.

Sometimes, the most graceful way to handle something is to be decidedly ungraceful.

Don't spend a lifetime regretting the decisions that you made. Chances are, that someone else would have made them for you anyway.

Maturity is the ability to make a decision and stand by it.

Countless possibilities exist in any situation. You must maintain a positive outlook to see the miraculous possibilities.

We lose the fear of making decisions great and small as we realize that should our choice prove wrong we can if we will learn from the experience.

Alternatives and particularly desirable alternatives grow only on imaginary trees.

The single greatest cause of happiness is gratitude.

How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt?

Choose always the way that seems the best however rough it may be custom will soon render it easy and agreeable.

Rules of society are nothing one's conscience is the umpire.

If you don’t choose what you want, someone make the choice for you.

Every time he tried to reconstruct the internal arguments that had led to his decision, they sounded feebler to him.

Mom always liked to say that we hardly ever know the decisions we make that change our lives, mostly because they are little ones. You took this bus instead of that one and ended up meeting your soul mate, that kind of thing. But there was no doubt in my mind that this was one of those life-changing moments.

Dead is not an option ".

Fine is the line between vengeance and justice. Blur it and you become no better than him.

Sometimes, I am my own worst enemy.

The truth was that I didn't know my own mind. Just as you might move into a house and in the scatterbrained days of unpacking leave a broom in some corner, where it remains until someone uses it and then returns it to that corner, now knowing that it was there by casual chance, until slowly that corner becomes its hallowed place, where you can always find the broom - just as all traditions begin as accidents, how the borders of countries are formed, how we marry, how we make friends and children - so, until Oxford, had I lived, within a sequence of non decisions, and yet with the same misdirected conviction of intentionality with which humans infuse their errors and felicities alike.

A choice of pains. That's what living was all about.

It's hard to decide matters of the heart, especially when Self-love is rooted in our decisions. You'll need to balance your needs with the people you love in order to avoid hurting others.