Decisions Quotes - Page 14

We have the right to make our own bad decisions and live with the consequences.

You have a brain and mind of your own. Use it, and reach your own decisions.

Simple works, complex fails.

Self-reliance is an America virtue but not a biblical value. Solomon wrote, "The way of fools seems right to them, but the wise listen to advice." (Proverbs 12:15) The word 'listen' carries with it the meaning of seeking out as well as receiving advice. A lot of pain can be prevented if leaders would just check in with their coach before a making a big decision.

Not to decide is to decide.

Family and friends become oppressors the moment they teach you that loyalty is more important than what is done to people outside your social circle. What they are really saying is this: Save yourself because God is more interested in an intact family or social circle that looks righteous, rather than you being a person of integrity that has compassion for others. It is this absurdity that teaches the wrong version of God and creates the next generation of "me" centered individuals.

people decided that trees have no feelings

Sometimes, the only cost to experience an ecstatic moment is a decision

The will to be totally rational is the will to be made out of glass and steel: and to use others as if they were glass and steel.

You have to choose what you want to be.You have to choose your own path in life.

Sometimes, I am my own worst enemy.

️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.

The Pilgrims didn't have any experience when they landed here. Hell if experience was that important we'd never have anybody walking on the moon.

A man must be able to cut a knot for everything cannot be untied.

When you are posessed by evil spirits, it is crafty manipulations that you follow; but when you are posessed by the Holy Spirit of God, it is wise discretions you pursue!

Of two evils choose the prettier.

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.

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.

Life is a learning process.Learn from your mistakes.The lessons should motivates you to make better decisions.

There are more important things than being careful

In life, you have to take lots of decisions and if you don't take decisions you would never do anything because you would spend all your time choosing between things you could do.

The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.

How you act on the worst time is make you the wise man of best time.

The only thing worse than not getting there is not starting the journey because you are still thinking about how to start it. Just start.

Everybody else is doing it is an excuse, not a reason. It could be that everybody else isn't, but the Devil is introducing you to the few that are in the hopes that he can fool you.

Be careful whose advice you heed to!

Your life will be colourful if you just add colours to your life! It is your own decisions that will determine to have a miserable or a marvellous life!

If I ever have to cast an acting role, I want the wrong person for the part. I can never visualize the right person in a part. The right person for the right part would be too much. Besides, no person is every completely right for any part, because part in a role is never real, so if you can't get someone who's perfectly right, it's more satisfying to get someone who's perfectly wrong. Then you know you've really got something.

Your body is a temple, not a daily dumping ground for another person’s pain, anger, betrayal, judgment, hypocrisy, denial, games, jealousy or blame. When you are being psychologically, spiritually or emotionally abused by a person, and they don’t care how it hurts you, then it is time to leave what is polluting your relationship with God.

Every moment is a moment of decision, and every moment turns us inexorably in the direction of the rest of our lives.

Everything, good or bad, was down to me.

You made the choices that brought you to this place in life. But the thing about choices is that you can always make new ones. Choose to change your life.

Don't do the right thing for the wrong reasons. It is the "why" that keeps us committed to our choices and defines our character.

Motivation doesn't work, Your decisions do!

People with victim mentality get accustomed to life with an assistance of someone’s mind, waiting for someone to make decisions for him

Your most important “want” should be the one you can control!

A decision is an action you must take when you have information so incomplete that the answer does not suggest itself.

Of two evils choose the less.

If we actually thought about every decision we made, we'd be paralyzed ... You have to decide which decisions you're actually going to make, and then you have to let the rest of them go.

Light or dark, happy or sad, black or white, right or wrong there are only two strong options, the opposites and others are weak.

There comes a time when even the thing you love betrays you...you have to know when it's time to give it up, I suppose. Doesn't mean you love it any less, of course. Just means it's time to move on. When you can't agree with the decisions that bind you, then you have to take your talents elsewhere.

I can be absolutely assured that any endeavor of which God is not a part is most certainly a step backward. And any step backward is at least two steps behind where I’d be if I’d have gone forward in the first place.

A game like sardines is scary, not so much for the hider but for the seekers. It's scary because you lose your companions and the whole world creeps up quiet and you slowly realize you're going to stumble upon a secret place where everyone will jump out at you. And then, when you are the very last seeker, you start to wonder if you're the only person in the world. If the hiding place somehow sucked up the players and the last one has to decide to run away or get sucked up, too.

As a man thinketh so is he and as a man chooseth so is he.

Your family will flourish when decisions are guided by the Lord—the head of your household.

How we handle adversity determines the chances if we either fall or rise.

The native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought; and enterprises of great pitch and moment, With this regard, their currents turn awry, and lose the name of action.

A man without decision can never be said to belong to himself he is as a wave of the sea or a feather in the air which every breeze blows about.

A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of sudden impulse and accident than of that reason of which we so much boast.

Do you want to be with Dave for the rest of your life?” Then he rips off a piece of paper and picks upthe smallest charcoal stick from my set. He writes something. He passes it over to me.It says:Time will tell.“And while you’re waiting,” he says, “don’t settle for anything less than what you really want.

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

We suddenly feel fearful and apprehensive, naked in our perishable flesh, and for just a moment we wish we could go back to being stone—crumbling in death rather than rotting, trapped inside an immobile prison of stone rather than reduced to immaterial souls like those that now rattled within our skulls. The moment passes. There is no point in regretting irreversible decisions—one has to live with them, and we try.

If your love for another person doesn’t include loving yourself then your love is incomplete.

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.

Destiny is defined by your choices, decisions, and determination.

Choices! Choices!! Choices!!! I have chosen love over hate.I have chosen faith over fears.I have chosen courage over cowardice.I have chosen strength over weakness.I have chosen positive thinking over negative thoughts.

The percentage of mistakes in quick decisions is no greater than in long-drawn-out vacillations and the effect of decisiveness itself "makes things go" and creates confidence.

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

There is one quality more important than know-how.... This is know-how by which we determine not only how to accomplish our purposes but what our purposes are to be.

I don't know how to choose my purpose - that sounds to big and... significant. But I know who I am, and I've chosen the things that are important to me. I think the best decisions I make about what to do in my life come when I'm being true to both of those things