Quotes about Decision

He backed off, the way he always does, but it won't happen a second time. If he ever sees her again he's going to go right up to her and ask her to marry him, that's what he'll do. He's sick of letting fate roll right past him.

We make our own fate. And then all at once she realized they did. They could not control it, but they could choose how to respond to what happened.

he wants to be completely in control. In a way, it's a relief. ...[she] doesn't have to think when she's with him, or make a decision, or state a preference.

You were a boy. Life is a mess, that's what Isabelle told me when I decided to have the child, but all we can do is live it.

Sometimes the right thing felt all wrong until it was over and done with.

I used to think there was a plan, a rough plan, but a plan all the same," the doctor admitted. "Now, I believe there are a thousand plans. Every breath, every decision, influences the plan, expands it, shortens it, twists it all around. It's always changing. Those of us lucky enough to make it through the multitude of possible diseases and accidents get old. We get tired. We close our eyes.

I thought of Matt. I thought of Yael. I thought of the decision I'd made on the plane to finally accept what I already knew in my heart to be true. I thought of the verse about what true love looks like—laying down your life for others.

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

It starts in your thinking. Nothing will change until you make up your mind that you are not going to accept mediocrity.

The Scripture says, "It is better to obey God than to obey people." There will be times when you have to make a decision, "Am I going to stick with my convictions, am I going to be who God made me to be, or am I going to let the approval of people determine my destiny?

Pain is a part of life...misery is an option.

Contentment with life is not a feeling, but it is a decision we must make.