Quotes and Sayings about Decisions

It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.

It is our choices that makes us who we are, and we always have a choice to do what's right.

You can never make the same mistake twice. Because the second time you make it, it's not a mistake, it's a choise.

The three C's of Life: Choices, Chances, Changes.
You must make a Choice to take a Chance or your Life will never Change.

Sometimes you make choices in life, and sometimes choices make you.

I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.

Sometimes our best decisions are the ones that don't make any sense at all.

Every decision you make is a mistake.

The most important moments are the ones that make you realize there's no turning back. You've crossed a line, and you're stuck on the other side now.

Have you ever thought that if you can go back in time, you might still make the same decisions? We all make our own snowballs out of our bad decisions. Balls that become massive, like the Indiana Jones boulder, chasing you down-hill only to crush you in the end.

It's not how everyone else feels about what you choose, but what your heart tells you, lad. That's all that matters.

As Schopenhauer said about free will, you can choose whatever you desire, but you're not free to choose your desires.

Life's simple. You make choices and you don't look back.

No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.

Choose it or lose it!

There are no choices. Nothing but a straight line.
The Illusion comes afterwards, when you ask 'Why me?' and 'What if?'
When you look back, see the branches, like a pruned bonsai tree, or a forked lightening.
If you had done something differently, it wouldn't be you.
It would be someone else looking back, asking a different set of questions.

There comes a time when every man needs to make a choice, whether it's a professional choice or whether it's a personal choice. In the end, it's about integrity, and it's about chasing after what you really want, even if that means showing you both care a little. And sometimes... well, sometimes you just have to do what's right for your friend, even if it means sacrificing your own happiness. When it comes down to it, you just have to be proud of the decision you make.

Don't make any decisions when you're angry. And never make any promises when you're happy.

Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.

Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it.

Never make a decision when you are upset, sad, jealous or in love.

So many roads. So many detours. So many choices. So many mistakes.

Unfortunately, some of our poor choices are irreversible, but many are not. Often, we can change course and get back on the right track.

Almost every important choice in our lives is really just an expression of hope.

Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.

The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.

'It is as though I have a black dog and a white dog inside me fighting each other constantly.' The black dog, he explained, represented evil and the white dog represented good. The missionary asked him, 'Which dog wins the fight within you?' After several moments of silence, the native said, 'The dog that wins is the one I feed and the dog that loses is the one I starve.'

I don't believe in destiny or fate - I believe in choice.
Love wasn't just a choice - it was dozens, hundreds, thousands of choices.
Every day was a choice.

Every choice we make shapes the legacy we pass on to the next generation.

You're free to make your own choices, but you're not free from the consequences of that choice.

The hardest choices require the strongest wills.

Choice is a lie. The greatest of lies.

Hypothetically, if the only choice you've got is to do the wrong thing, then it's not really the wrong thing, it's more like fate.

The worst path one can choose is not choosing a path.

We make choices everyday, some of them good, some of them bad. And - if we are strong enough - we live with the consequences.

Tough times call for tougher decisions.

I believe without a single shadow of a doubt that it is necessary for young people to learn to make choices. Learning to make right choices is the only way they will survive in an increasingly frightening world.

You got to own your choices, boys. Choose them fully and don’t look back.

When you make the right decision, it doesn't really matter what anyone else thinks.

Sometimes you make the right decision, sometimes you make the decision right.

Indecision may or may not be my problem.

Obviously, as you grow up, no one's ever 100 percent proud of every decision that they've made, and that's OK. I think as long as you learn from your mistakes and don't make them over and over again, you're on the right path.

We've all got both light and dark inside of us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.

I'd give up all the world to see that little piece of heaven looking back at me.
Now that it's over, I just wanna hold her.
I've gotta live with the choices I made and I can't live with myself today.

A conscience is that still small voice that people won't listen to.

There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.

A vote is like a rifle, its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

But there are mistakes that are necessary. Sometimes you have to die a little bit to get back to live a little longer.