Quotes about Decision
I have hardly had time to think over all that you have told me. It's a big thing for a man to have to understand and to decide at one sitting. I should like to have a quiet hour by myself to make up my mind.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
You can do what you will: but at each given moment of your life you can will only one determined thing and by no means anything other than this one.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Conscience accompanies every act with the comment: You should act differently, although its true sense is: You could be other than you are.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
A man can surely do what he wills to do, but he cannot determine what he wills.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
There can be no justification for choosing any part of that which one knows to be evil.
- Ayn Rand
Abortion is a moral right—which should be left to the sole discretion of the woman involved.
- Ayn Rand
It is my will which chooses, and the choice of my will is the only edict I must respect.
- Ayn Rand
Dare not choose in your minds the work you would like to do when you leave the Home of the Students. You shall do what the Council of Vocations shall prescribe for you.
- Ayn Rand
A moment of choice is a moment of truth. It's the testing point of our character and competence.
- Stephen Covey
I have the power to choose my response.
- Stephen Covey
Scientific questions cannot be decided by majority vote in any case.
- Stephen Jay Gould
Instead of following your heart, you are choosing to lead to lead it. The world says to follow your heart, but if you are not it, then someone or something else is. The Bible says that the heart is more deceitful than all else (Jeremiah 17:9), and it will always pursue that which feels right at the moment.
- Stephen Kendrick