Quotes about Decision

Present choice cannot at present choose to be otherwise: for that would be at present to choose something diverse from what is at present chosen.

Does the mind will, in any given manner, without a motive, cause or ground, which renders the given choice, rather than a different choice, certain.

It must be made quite clear—terrifying though it is—that we are immediately faced with the decision: National Socialist or Christian...

One knows what is right, but holds it at arm's length for a time, neither throwing it out, nor embracing it.

Whenever there was a dilemma, I just left it in abeyance and—without really consciously dealing with it intensively—let it grow toward the clarity of a decision. But this clarity is not so much intellectual as it is instinctive. The decision is made; whether one can adequately justify it retrospectively is another question. "Thus" it happened that I went. Bonhoeffer was always thinking about thinking.

He knew that, if left to do as he liked, he might fritter away the rest of his life, just as he'd frittered away so many years already. He knew that he didn't want to go back to where he had been before, and he would take whatever steps were necessary to ensure that he continued on the new path he was now on.

Advice is what you ask for when you already know the answer but wish you didn't.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this; decide what you want.

All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

Ten years ago he would have followed her, but middle-age is the period of sad caution.