Life Decision Quotes

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. ~ Tony Robbins

Here's a news flash: No soldier gives his life. That's not the way it works. Most soldiers who make a conscious decision to place themselves in harm's way do it to protect their buddies. They do it because of the bonds of friendship - and it goes so much deeper than friendship. ~ Eric Massa

Do not let either the medical authorities or the politicians mislead you. Find out what the facts are, and make your own decisions about how to live a happy life and how to work for a better world. ~ Linus Pauling

Whenever we need to make a very important decision it is best to trust our instincts, because reason usually tries to remove us from our dream, saying that the time is not yet right. Reason is afraid of defeat, but intuition enjoys life and its challenges. ~ Paulo Coelho

That moment when you are standing at the edge of a life decision may be terrifying, but if you don't jump in - you'll never know! ~ Maggie Pajak

It's a good idea always to do something relaxing prior to making an important decision in your life. ~ Paulo Coelho

We made this really dumb decision to put on the cover nothing from South Park but just a real life photo of a piece of pooh dressed up like Mr. Hankey, and a lot of people didn't, they didn't even know what it was. ~ Trey Parker

The Bible says that you marry for life, okay. It's a lifetime decision. ~ Si Robertson

That there's no more important decision in life than who you marry. ~ Brad Paisley

Nothing happens until you decide. ~ Oprah Winfrey

I act as if my life depends on each decision. Because it does. ~ Tom Rath

I think people in Montreal smoke a lot, and I used to smoke when I was 17-18, and just picked it up when I was playing juniors. But I think I stopped when I was 22, which was a big decision in my life. ~ Mario Lemieux

If you think about the long term then you can really make good life decisions that you won't regret later. ~ Jeff Bezos

We already know enough to begin to cope with all the major problems that are now threatening human life and much of the rest of life on earth. Our crisis is not a crisis of information; it is a crisis of decision of policy and action. ~ George Wald

I would say of characters I've created, the one I've felt the most connected to emotionally was Adam Austin from 'The Prophet.' I think it was the connection to the idea that one decision you make innocently enough can have very serious, drastic consequences for someone else's life. ~ Michael Koryta

I'm a Hawaiian shirt guy. I've made that life decision. ~ Chris O'Dowd

When a parliamentary or social majority decrees that it is legal, at least under certain conditions, to kill unborn human life, is it not really making a tyrannical decision with regard to the weakest and most defenseless of human beings? ... While public authority can sometimes choose not to put a stop to something which were it prohibited would cause more serious harm, it can never presume to legitimize as a right of individuals even if they are the majority of the members of society an offense against other persons caused by the disregard of so fundamental a right as the right to life. ~ Pope John Paul II

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. ~ David Levithan

Don't get stuck where you are, keep growing. It's a decision you have to make because it is easy to get stuck. Make a decision to develop better habits, to have better relationships and just to keep the enthusiasm for life. ~ Joel Osteen

O Lord point the right path for me to walk on it. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Everything can turn around in a moment, if you just change your thoughts, and make different decisions. Listen to your heart. ~ Stacie Hammond

Life came in and put me in front of the camera before I could really make a decision, but I think I probably would have gravitated to film. ~ Elisabeth Rohm

If you let fear dictate your decisions, you will live defensively, reactively, cautiously. Living by faith is playing offense with your life. ~ Mark Batterson

I'd already made the decision before I'd even read it-just because it was John Sayles. Then when I read it, the themes were actually themes that have been a big part of my life. ~ Mary Steenburgen

Because of new technologies, new wealth, new conditions of domestic life and of international relations, unprecedented criteria and issues are coming up for national decision. ~ Herman Kahn

Life is full of trials and tribulations. It's dramatic when you don't treat people right when you're in the tribulations, but I know now how to get out of it. You have to make a decision to say 'No more', and then you know what to do when the trials happen. ~ Mary J. Blige

Once the Choice is Made, Do Not Look Back, Do Not Second-Guess Your Decisions ~ Muhammad Ali

Overall, my life has been one of survival, and the decisions that I have made along the way, including my identification, have been to survive. ~ Rachel Dolezal

In many ways, my decision to come out changed the course not only of my personal life but of my professional one as well. ~ George Takei

I made a conscious decision not to tell anyone in my life. Now I tell people - don't tell anyone your idea until you have invested enough of yourself in it that you are not going to turn back. When a person has an idea at that conception moment it is the most vulnerable - one negative comment could knock you off course. ~ Sara Blakely

Every major life decision I made came from my pain, guilt and shame...even down to the man I chose for a husband. ~ Elona Washington

It's your decisions, not your conditions, which shape your life. ~ Tony Robbins

I have hesitation making any kind of decision, really in my life. I'm really slow at it. ~ Jeff Bridges

When it comes to making the right moves at the right time, your dance partner is life itself or what can be referred to as your destiny. The more you pay attention and practice intuitive decision making skills, the better you will become at sensing the unique rhythm of your life. ~ Paul O'Brien

Define your own path in life. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Any decision I make is the biggest decision of my life. ~ Carmelo Anthony

I'm glad I made the decision, although the practice of law - and particularly serving as a federal judge - was a part of my life that I really enjoyed and treasured and look back on it with fondness. ~ George J. Mitchell

Every time you make a decision, you mess with someone's life. ~ Kevin James

I had to make a choice at one point in my life, of missing films or missing my children. It was a very easy decision to make because I missed my children so very much. ~ Audrey Hepburn

I have decided on my destiny; accepted by calling as writing for God. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The most important decision you'll ever make is how to spend the present moment ! ~ Gaurav Dagaonkar

Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all. ~ Emile M. Cioran

The decision to use a pen name was nothing more than a desire to compartmentalise my life. However, I had not thought about an appropriate pseudonym, and since there's an abundance of anagrams in the novel, the idea struck me: why not use an anagram of my name? Hence, Shawn Haigins. ~ Ashwin Sanghi

We can't blame our decision if something goes wrong in life. Decision is made exactly as per the capacity and capability of the moment's consciousness ~ Bhavik Sarkhedi

Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. ~ Richard Bach

There's moments when you have to make a split-second decision that will form you for the rest of your life. ~ Dash Mihok

Life is like the monkey bars: you have to let go to move forward. Once you make the decision to leap into entrepreneurship, be sure to loosen your grasp on old concepts so you can swing your way to new ones. ~ Leah Busque

I like to make big decisions when I am at home living a routine life, getting up, walking my dog, having breakfast, when I have no pressure. I do not like doing it when I making a film. It is too stressful. ~ Paul Walker

Fear reaches only to the point where the unavoidable begins; from there on, it loses its meaning. And all we have left is the hope that we are making the right decision ~ Paulo Coelho

What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn't any philosophy in crises, others make the decision. ~ Jeannette Rankin

Love trumps everything. Love's decision will not always be kind to your artistic life. ~ Vinita Hampton Wright

If there's somebody that I love that's in my life, I don't necessarily have to agree with their decisions or the decisions they've made to continue to love them and participate in important events. ~ Marco Rubio

Our daily decisions create the scrapbook of our life. ~ Mary Anne Radmacher

You can spend the rest of your life trying to figure out what other people expect from you, or you can make a decision to let that all go. ~ Maria Shriver

I made an important decision, which was to pursue happiness. Rather than accept unhappiness. That's why I'm here, and it's great. I'm in a very good place in my life. ~ Laura Marling

Decide what you what to do with your life. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The only way to make the right decision is to find out which is the wrong decision, to examine that other path without fear, and only then decide. ~ Paulo Coelho

I have referred to it as a gift--something for which others with this affliction have taken me to task. I was only speaking from my own experience, of course, but I stand partially corrected: if it is a gift, it's the gift that just keeps on taking.

Coping with relentless assault and the accumulating damage is not easy. Nobody would ever choose to have this visited upon them. Still, this unexpected crisis forced a fundamental life decision: adopt a siege mentality--or embark upon a journey. Whatever it was--courage? acceptance? wisdom?--that finally allowed me to go down the second road (after spending a few disastrous years on the first) was unquestionably a gift--and absent this neurophysiological catastrophe, I would never have opened it, or been so profoundly enriched. That's why I consider myself a lucky man. ~ Michael J. Fox

Life is not only consisted of "yes" and "no", but a lot of "yes and's" and "no but's". ~ Vann Chow

There is no evidence that an animal can take on the sophisticated task of deciding to end his life and to communicate that decision to us. ~ Jon Katz

One thing about me, when I make a decision about something, I realize when you make choices in life, that dictates your life. ~ Chris Tucker

There is always something to lose. But maybe more to gain. ~ John Christopher

. . . she thought, brightly, This is the worst life decision I have ever made! And she marveled at herself for a while, at the mystery of this person who'd just done this bizarre, inexplicable thing. ~ Kristen Roupenian

Nothing is more honoring to your heavenly Father than making life decisions based upon what he has claimed about himself. ~ Andy Stanley

That decision to commit your life to certain principles and a certain narrative, if I wrote a paper on that, I know I'd find inconsistencies. ~ Matt Stone

I've never used Sybase in my life. How would I make an intelligent decision about this versus that with a Sybase extension? ~ Rasmus Lerdorf

I'm just kind of taking whatever life gives me and hoping that I make the right decision. ~ Amy Smart

It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small matters over a period of years. But the catch is that you can never know when a seemingly small decision may prove to be, from the vantage of later years, the big decision of your life. ~ Norman Vincent Peale

One good wish changes nothing. But one good decision changes everything. Your power to choose, to make a good decision, spells the difference between wishing and making real life changes. ~ Steve Goodier

It is our decisions not our conditions that determine our quality of life. ~ John C. Maxwell

All my life, I have lived with the feeling that I have been kept from my true place. If the expression "metaphysical exile" had no meaning, my existence
alone would afford it one. ~ Emil M. Cioran

I am anxious. I am always anxious. I should change my name to Anxiety Dickinson. I am anxious about my little sister. My big sister. My mother. Myself. Life. I am anxious about what to wear, what to eat, what to say, how to breathe. ~ Janice Dickinson

Lucretius and Cicero testify to the view that people dream about the things that concern them in waking life. ~ Sigmund Freud

...judgement had no place here. Evil was not in play, just life pulsing on, even at the expense of some of the participants. Biology sees right and wrong as the same color in different light. Nothing seemed too indecorous as long as the tick & the tock of life carried on. She knew this was not a dark side to Nature, just inventive ways to endure against all odds. ~ Delia Owens

For some men, life seems to be one long attempt to escape childhood and all the fears of childhood. That's what many of us are doing. ~ Peter Temple

The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind. ~ Thomas Jefferson

Life's true face is the skull. ~ Nikos Kazantzakis

Life is a guy trying to play a violin solo in public, while learning the music and his instrument at the same time. ~ Joseph Campbell

We don't have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I could say that's what I want in life. ~ Marina Keegan

In a world that was not easy for Alice to bear or understand, flies were the final and malicious burden laid upon her. ~ John Steinbeck

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. ~ Walter Scott

When I was exposed to the history and the cultural background of why women whose husbands die, why they have to become ascetic or live a life that is completely deprived of emotional or social or cultural sustenance, I was really shocked. ~ Deepa Mehta

Year by year, his life wasn't amounting to anything at all...And yet, another part of him had expanded: his self-consciousness, his self-pity -- oh, the tediousness of it...Shouldn't he return to a life where he might slice his own importance, to where he might relinquish this overrated control over his own destiny and perhaps be subtracted from its determination altogether? He might even experience that greatest luxury of not noticing himself at all. ~ Kiran Desai

The key to happiness: You may speak of love and tenderness and passion, but real ecstasy is discovering you haven't lost your keys after all. Women begin by resisting a man's advances and end by blocking his retreat. If you want to change a woman's mind, agree with her. If you want to know what a woman really means, look at her - don't listen to her. ~ Rajneesh

Life is hard, but I can do hard things ~ Adolescent Rehabilitation

So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert

If you recall the happiest moments in your life, they are all from when you were doing something for somebody else. ~ Desmond Tutu

it's like in life, you have obstacles and you train to overcome them. You search for the best technique. You keep the best, you repeat it, and then you get better. ~ Christopher McDougall

Beware! Guard against every kind of greed. Life is not measured by how much you own. ~ Anonymous

When I went to see certain shows when I was a kid, they changed my life. They made me tap into that place inside myself that I was unable to get to, so music is that tool, that bridge, and that's the kind of music I'm interested in making. ~ Matisyahu

Logic rests on the axiom that existence exists. Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification. ~ Ayn Rand

Incidentally, I notice that our professors, trying to show off to their students, rant and rail against the state and against law and order, while expecting that same state to punctually pay their salaries, pensions, and family allowances, so that they value at least this kind of law and order. Make a fist with the left hand and open the right hand receptively - that is how one gets through life. ~ Ernst Junger

no man with any sense should marry the girl to whom he loses his virginity. It's like learning to drive in some clapped-out old banger and then holding on to it for the rest of your life when you've developed the skill to handle a BMW in rush-hour traffic on a busy Autobahn. ~ John Boyne

Dear Dan, Why is the divorce rate so high?
D.A.: It is hard to imagine we can be happy with any decision we make even one year down the road, much less when we look back at our decisions five, ten, twenty, or even fifty years later. Frankly, I am amazed by how low the divorce rate is. ~ Dan Ariely

I've been with this young lady for about two years now, and my life changed. I don't even think that way no more. I feel good, too, that I'm changed. Now I feel regular. I feel like I'm supposed to. ~ Mike Epps

I have always lived my life exactly as I wanted. I've tried to please no one but myself ... but I'm entirely content. I can sit back in my old age and not regret a single moment, not wish to change a single thing. It's what I wish for you ... a life with no regrets. ~ Katharine Hepburn

Once I came to really understand the mechanics of three-act structure, my life got a great deal easier. It doesn't tell you how to write your book, but it helps you understand why things aren't working, or what kind of beat needs to come next. ~ Marcus Sakey

I remember Christian teachers telling me long ago that I must hate a bad man's actions but not hate the bad man: or, as they would say, hate the sin but not the sinner ... I used to think this a silly, straw-splitting distinction: how could you hate what a man did and not hate the man? But years later it occurred to me that there was one man to whom I had been doing this all my life
namely myself. However much I might dislike my own cowardice or conceit or greed, I went on loving myself. There had never been the slightest difficulty about it. In fact the very reason why I hated the things was that I loved the man. Just because I loved myself, I was sorry to find that I was the sort of man who did those things. ~ C.S. Lewis

I'm removed in my real life, and unable to express certain things face to face. So I have always found myself in this fantasy world. That's why I started writing songs and stories from a very young age. I'd much rather walk around anonymously cooking up tales than face the people that I have known forever. ~ Jenny Lewis

Oh! in his rapture he was weeping even over those stars, which were shining to him from the abyss of space, and "he was not ashamed of that ecstasy." There seemed to be threads from all those innumerable worlds of God, linking his soul to them, and it was trembling all over "in contact with other worlds." He longed to forgive everyone and for everything, and to beg forgiveness. Oh, not for himself, but for all men, for all and for everything. "And others are praying for me too," echoed again in his soul. But with every instant he felt clearly and, as it were, tangibly, that something firm and unshakable as that vault of heaven had entered into his soul. It was as though some idea had seized the sovereignty of his mind
and it was for all his life and for ever and ever. He had fallen on the earth a weak boy, but he rose up a resolute champion, and he knew and felt it suddenly at the very moment of his ecstasy. And never, never, his life long, could Alyosha forget that minute. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky