We all have defining moments. It is in these moments that we find our true characters. We become heroes or cowards; truth tellers or liars; we go forward or we go backward. — Robert Kiyosaki
In any match, there are few critical moments where there's no second best decision. The rest of the moves are intuitive. — Viswanathan Anand
Decisiveness is often the art of timely cruelty. — Henry Becque
There is a time when we must firmly choose the course we will follow, or the relentless drift of events will make the decision for us. — Herbert V. Prochnow
Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied. — Pearl Buck
All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused. — Martha Graham
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped. — Tony Robbins
One minute can decide the outcome of the battle, one hour - the outcome of the campaign, and one day - the fate of the country. — Alexander Suvorov
Short Decisive Moment Quotes
Great moments are born from great opportunities. — Herb Brooks
A good snapshot stops a moment from running away. — Eudora Welty
Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
A reputation for a thousand years may depend upon the conduct of a single moment. — Ernest Bramah
You know a moment is important when it is making your mind go numb with beauty. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat. — Horatio Nelson
Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant. — Joan Didion
Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in. — Andrew Jackson
Be decisive. A wrong decision is generally less disastrous than indecision. — Bernhard Langer
Decisive Moment Image Quotes
A mistake repeated more than once is a decision.
The Decisive Moment Quotes
The unpreparedness of the educated classes, the lack of practical links between them and the mass of the people, their laziness, and, let it be said, their cowardice at the decisive moment of the struggle will give rise to tragic mishaps. — Frantz Fanon
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. — Theodore Roosevelt
You never regret taking a night to sleep on an emotional response. But you do regret ones done in the moment. — Alex Hormozi
A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others.
You have to make the decision to let go of the past if you want to move forward. Reliving your painful past will poison your heart and your tomorrow. If you look at today through the eyes of the past, you can never see what the present moment has to offer. — Bryant H. McGill
Three decisions that we all control each moment of our lives: what to focus on, what things mean, and what to do in spite of the challenges that may appear. — Tony Robbins
Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment. — Goswami Kriyananda
Be where you are, otherwise you will miss your life.
Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment. — J. Donald Walters
It is our great collective misfortune that the scientific community made its decisive diagnosis of the climate threat at the precise moment when an elite minority was enjoying more unfettered political, cultural, and intellectual power than at any point since the 1920s. — Naomi Klein
Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
Decisive moment: the one when you will be really alone. And it is perhaps this that makes her hesitate: not the void, but the vastness of the solitude. It's as well if you are frightened of solitude. It's a sign that you have come to the moment of your birth. — Helene Cixous
What A Moment Quotes
You are a steward of every moment, of every talent, of every gift, of every resource that God has given you. Chose wisely what you do today! — Paul Washer
The whole world is drunk and we're just the cocktail of the moment. Someday soon, the world will wake up, down two aspirin with a glass of tomato juice, and wonder what the hell all the fuss was about. — Dean Martin
What happened yesterday is history. What happens tomorrow is a mystery. What we do today makes a difference - the precious present moment. — Nick Saban
One of the most important decisions you'll ever face in life is choosing whether to walk away or try harder.
Don't waste another moment crying over what went wrong! If it wasn't a blessing - it was a lesson. — Paula White
Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake. — Francis Bacon
Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake. — Marie Beyon Ray
Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end.
What I treasure most in life is being able to dream.
During my most difficult moments and complex situations
I have been able to dream of a more beautiful future. — Rigoberta Menchu
What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party. — Ida B. Wells
I called to the other men that the sky was clearing, and then a moment later I realized that what I had seen was not a rift in the clouds but the white crest of an enormous wave. — Ernest Shackleton
I am a very positive thinker, and I think that is what helps me the most in difficult moments. — Roger Federer
Critical Moments Quotes
This night will be very difficult, and the enemy will use all available forces to break the resistance of Ukrainians, the fate of Ukraine is being decided right now. — Volodymyr Zelenskyy
The last 200 years of your ancestry, contain 127 romantic relationships, each involving at least one critical sex moment and most of them probably involving deep love. You’re the product of 127 romances, just in the last 200 years alone. — Tim Urban
Enormous self-belief, intuition, the ability to take a risk at a critical moment and go in for a very dangerous play with counter-chances for the opponent - it is precisely these qualities that distinguish great players. — Garry Kasparov
Every minute spent worrying about "The way thing were" is a moment stolen from creating the way things can be.
My forte was the middlegame. I had a good feeling for the critical moments of the play. This undoubtedly compensated for my lack of opening preparation and, possibly, not altogether perfect play in the endgame. In my games things often did not reach the endgame! — Boris Spassky
In quiet moments when you think about it, you recognize what is critically important in life and what isn't. Be wise and don't let good things crowd out those that are essential. — Richard G. Scott
I release all criticism. I only give out that which I wish to receive in return. My love and acceptance of others is mirrored to me in every moment. — Louise Hay
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts. — Boris Yeltsin
The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible. — Salman Rushdie
The DS represents a critical moment for Nintendo's success over the next two years. If it succeeds, we rise to the heavens, if it fails, we sink into hell. — Hiroshi Yamauchi
There is no distress so complete but that even in the most critical moments the inexplicable sunrise of hope is seen in its depths. — Victor Hugo
Moment Of Truth Quotes
Difficult things provoke all your irritations and bring your habitual patterns to the surface. And that becomes the moment of truth. You have the choice to launch into your lousy habitual patterns, or to stay with the rawness and discomfort of the situation and let it transform you. — Pema Chodron
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers. — M. Scott Peck
The truth is you and I are in control of only two things - how we prepare for what might happen and how we respond to what just happened. The moment when things actually do happen belongs to God. — DeVon Franklin
I think the currency of leadership is transparency. You've got to be truthful. I don't think you should be vulnerable every day, but there are moments where you've got to share your soul and conscience with people and show them who you are, and not be afraid of it. — Howard Schultz
Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Suffering is a moment of clarity, when you can no longer deny the truth of a situation and are forced into uncomfortable change. Inside suffering is the seed of change. — Naval Ravikant
In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot. — Czeslaw Milosz
At the moment of truth, there are either reasons or results. — Chuck Yeager
I have learned to live my life one step, one breath, and one moment at a time, but it was a long road. I set out on a journey of love, seeking truth, peace and understanding. I am still learning. — Muhammad Ali
Defining Moments Quotes
You know, when you get your first asparagus, or your first acorn squash, or your first really good tomato of the season, those are the moments that define the cook's year. I get more excited by that than anything else. — Mario Batali
For most entertainers, there is a single experience, one defining moment, when confidence replaces the self-doubt that most of us wrestle with. — Charley Pride
What happened to the joyful, calm infant who simply enjoyed the moment with whatever it had to offer? Gone. Swamped by the constant urge to define an ever-evolving identity. — Mo Gawdat
Life is a series of hello's and goodbye's. Most we forget, but a few define us. — Lex Fridman
It is so easy to overestimate the importance of one defining moment and underestimating the value of making small improvements on a daily basis. — James Clear
We all have life-defining moments. They are like open-book tests, but we don't know we have been examined until it is over. — John Bevere
It's not the failures in our life that define us, it's the moments when we decide that getting back up is all that matters — Joel Brown
In your life's defining moments there are two choices - you either step forward in faith and power or you step backward into fear. — James Arthur Ray
God defines himself as "I am who I am", which also means: My being is such that I shall always be present in every moment of becoming. — Hans Urs von Balthasar
Because you are defined not by life's imperfect moments, but by your reaction to them. And because there is joy in embracing - rather than running from - the utter absurdity of life. — Jenny Lawson
There is a magic power in your own hands. Take your vital decisions-they may be grave and momentous and far-reaching in their consequences. Think a hundred times before you take any decision, but once a decision is taken, stand by it as one man. — Fatima Jinnah
It is moments like this that one needs to face his fears. The best way to have such a moment is to gradually confront the fear and approach it in a way that is both exciting and inspiring. You have to be decisive and physically prepared to do your best. After that, little by little, you will see progress. — Wim Hof
From the moment when a subordinate class becomes really independent and dominant, calling into being a new type of State, the need arises concretely, of building a new intellectual and moral order, i.e. a new type of society, and hence the need to elaborate the most universal concepts, the most refined and decisive ideological weapons. — Antonio Gramsci
And he knew that at that moment, they understood each other perfectly, and when he told her what he was going to do now, she would not say ‘be careful’ or ‘don’t do it’, but she would accept his decision because she would not have expected anything less of him. — J. K. Rowling
From my adventures in the subculture of addiction recovery, I'd learned that the trajectory of one's life often boils down to a few identifiable moments--decisions that change everything. I knew all too well that moments like these were not to be squandered. Rather, they were to be respected and seized at all costs, for they just didn't come around that often, if ever. Even if you experienced only one powerful moment like this one, you were lucky. Blink or look away for even an instant and the door didn't just close, it literally vanished. — Rich Roll
It is alarming to consider how many major life decisions we take primarily in order to minimize present-moment emotional discomfort. —
Satan has no power over us except what we allow. Moment by moment, decision by decision, step by step - will we operate in God's all powerful Truth or allow Satan to entangle us in his lies? — Lysa TerKeurst
Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes a precise moment in time. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
At any moment the decision you make can change the course of your life forever. — Tony Robbins
Jazz music is the power of now. There is no script. It's conversation. The emotion is given to you by musicians as they make split-second decisions to fulfill what they feel the moment requires. — Wynton Marsalis
From the moment I stepped foot in Music City I have had a love affair with the people and burgeoning culinary scene. This city's long, highly-respected cultural history, coupled with the recent growth and development is inspiring. I could not be happier with my decision and I'm truly excited to call Nashville my home. — Maneet Chauhan
Every day, in every moment, you get to exercise choices that will determine whether or not you will become a great person, living a great life. Greatness is not something predetermined, predestined or carved into your fate by forces beyond your control. Greatness is always in the moment of the decision. — Jeff Olson
Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision. — Tony Robbins
I have started to think that the great, decisive moments that broadly govern our lives are far less conscious at the time than they seem later when we are reminiscing and taking stock. — Sándor Márai
There comes a moment in every life when a choice must be made between right and wrong, between good and evil, between light and darkness. These decisions are made in an instant, but with repercussions that last a lifetime. — Jenna Jameson
It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened. — Franz Kafka
The only decisions I'm making at the moment are whether I have tea, coffee, toast or cornflakes in the morning. — Sam Allardyce
The decision to make the present moment into your friend is the end of ego. — Eckhart Tolle
One can't realize difficulty arriving at a momentous decision until one comes to do so. — Aminu Kano
I have found that great people do have in common. . .an immense belief in themselves and in their mission. They also have gerat determination as well as an ability to work hard. At the crucial moment of decision, they draw on their accumulated wisdom. Above all, they have integrity. — Yousuf Karsh
Intuition is neither the ability to engage prophecy
nor a means of avoiding financial loss or painful relationships.
It is actually the ability to use energy data
to make decisions in the immediate moment. — Caroline Myss
We never make a decision. When the
time is right, the decision makes itself. — Byron Katie
Usually, I'm pretty good about sorting through the options and then making decisions that I'm confident are the best decisions in that moment, given the information we have. But there are times where I think I wish I could have imagined a different level of insight. — Barack Obama
However, it was not us who refused to freeze oil production; our Saudi partners changed their point of view at the last moment and decided to slow down the adoption of this decision. I would like to reiterate our position, it remains the same. — Vladimir Putin
When you make a decision, you need facts. If those facts are in your brain, they're at your fingertips. If they're all in Google somewhere, you may not make the right decision on the spur of the moment. — Ken Jennings
Imagination should give wings to our thoughts but we always need decisive experimental proof, and when the moment comes to draw conclusions and to interpret the gathered observations, imagination must be checked and documented by the factual results of the experiment. — Louis Pasteur
I am courageous at the decisive moment. But I need a good deal of start-up time, and I try to take as much as possible into consideration beforehand. — Angela Merkel
I never make conscious decisions. If my agent says to me, "It's a good script," I'll do it. I don't plan. I've got a lot of things to do. I'm at the roulette table and my luck seems to be running at the moment. I might as well stay there until it runs out. — Anthony Hopkins
You have to understand that in a person's life there are a few precious moments in which decisions, choices that you make now, will affect you for the rest of your life. — Dave Pelzer
One never gets to know a person's character better than by watching his behavior during decisive moments.... It is always only danger which forces the most deeply hidden strengths and abilities of a human being to come forth. — Stefan Zweig
Your personal power is not something that is going to reveal itself at some later date. Your power is a result of your decision to reveal it. You are powerful in whatever moment you choose to be. — Marianne Williamson
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