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
Be decisive. A wrong decision is generally less disastrous than indecision. — Bernhard Langer
Once the facts are clear the decisions jump out at you. — Peter Drucker
When once you consider an action, do not let anything dissuade you. Consult your heart, not others, and then follow its dictates. — Swami Vivekananda
Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are. — Howard Hughes
By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future. — Unknown
... anything is better than indecision. We must decide. If I am wrong, we shall soon find out and can do the other thing. But not to decide wastes both time and money and may ruin everything. — Ulysses S. Grant
When you make a choice, you change the future. — Deepak Chopra
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped. — Tony Robbins
once it's jam, it can't be strawberries anymore. — Marilyn Wallace
Do things as soon as you can. If a decision needs to be made, make it. It gives you more time to change your mind. — James D. Watson
Short Once Decided Quotes
A word once uttered can never be recalled. — Horace
Once you decide to work for yourself, you never go back to work for somebody else. — Alan Sugar
There comes a time in every person's life when he has to choose the course his life will take. — Muhammad Ali
Never make a permanent decision about a temporary situation. — T. D. Jakes
Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever. — Keri Russell
Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled. — Horace
Not all decisions are reversible, but most of them are. — Sahil Bloom
The seed of every habit is a single, tiny decision. — James Clear
If you don't make up your mind, your unmade mind will unmake you. — E. Stanley Jones
Life is so brief and time is a thief when you're undecided. — Rod Stewart
Once Decided Image Quotes
The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react. — George Bernard Shaw
Don't promise when you're happy. Don't reply when you're angry and don't decide when you're sad.
When Change Comes Quotes
The point is change can come about, but it only comes about when millions of people are actively involved in political struggle, the billionaires may have the money, but we have the people. — Bernie Sanders
And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about. — Haruki Murakami
When people tell me nothing has changed, I say come walk in my shoes and I will show you change. — John Lewis
Don't wait for everything to be perfect before you decide to enjoy your life.
Sometimes you have to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything - whatever is bringing you down - get rid of it. Because you will find that when you are free, your true creativity, your true self comes out. — Tina Turner
I close my eyes And sink within myself Relive the gift of precious memories In need of a fix called innocence When did it begin?The change to come was undetectable The open wounds expose the importance of Our innocence A high that can never be bought or sold — Chuck Schuldiner
Change in society is of secondary importance; that will come about naturally, inevitably, when you as a human being bring about the change in yourself. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage - pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically - to say NO to other things. And the way to do that is by having a bigger YES burning inside.
Change is never easy, and it often creates discord, but when people come together for the good of humanity and the Earth, we can accomplish great things. — David Suzuki
When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about. — Haruki Murakami
My mental boundaries expanded when I viewed the Earth against a black and uninviting vacuum, yet my country's rich traditions had conditioned me to look beyond man-made boundaries and prejudices. One does not have to undertake a space flight to come by this feeling. — Rakesh Sharma
When we think of failure; failure will be ours. If we remain undecided nothing will ever change. All we need to do is want to achieve something great and then simply to do it. Never think of failure, for what we think, will come about. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
When Success Comes Quotes
Success is not achieved by winning all the time. Real success comes when we rise after we fall. Some mountains are higher than others. Some roads steeper than the next. There are hardships and setbacks but you cannot let them stop you. Even on the steepest road you must not turn back. — Muhammad Ali
I've learned over the years that when it comes to success, consistency is key. Consistent hard work that we may not like doing today, but for a payoff we'll love tomorrow. Earn it. Enjoy it. — Dwayne Johnson
One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. — Benjamin Disraeli
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.
Civilizations, I believe, come to birth and proceed to grow by successfully responding to successive challenges. They break down and go to pieces if and when a challenge confronts them that they fail to meet. — Arnold J. Toynbee
Celebrate your success and stand strong when adversity hits, for when the storm clouds come in, the eagles soar while the small birds take cover. — Napoleon Hill
Be ready when opportunity comes...Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet. — Roy D. Chapin, Jr.
Decide what you want, and then act as if it were impossible to fail.
When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane. — Steven Wright
True success in any endeavor can only come when the Father has initiated the activity and invited our participation. — Priscilla Shirer
Success is not achieved by winning all the time. Real success comes when we rise after we fall. — Muhammad Ali
When it comes to being badass nothing beats this It took me 17 years and 114 days to become an overnight success. — Lionel Messi
Once You Decide Quotes
Once I looked in the mirror and decided this is who I am, and I'm not scared of who I am, and I'm not scared that I can't be like you, and I'm good with just doing me, that's when I found myself, as a man. — Kendrick Lamar
The ‘friend zone’ is like the penalty box of dating, only you can never get out. Once a girl decides you’re her ‘friend,’ it’s game over. You’ve become a complete non-sexual entity in her eyes, like her brother, or a lamp. — Ryan Reynolds
Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it's not easy. You have to take direct steps. You really have to count your blessings and you have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the blues. — Al Jarreau
Decide what you want. Believe you can have it. Believe you deserve it and believe it's possible for you.
Once you've decided that something's absolutely true, you've closed your mind on it, and a closed mind doesn't go anywhere. Question everything. That's what education's all about. — David Eddings
Once I decide to do something, I can't have people telling me I can't. If there's a roadblock, you jump over it, walk around it, crawl under it. — Kitty Kelley
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
At some thoughts one stands perplexed, especially at the sight of men's sin, and wonders whether one should use force or humble love. Always decide to use humble love. If you resolve on that once for all, you may subdue the whole world. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Once you decide to do something, and you're pretty sure you're right, then you gotta go ahead and do it. Because if you piddle around, somebody else will beat you to it. — Ted Turner
From tonight onwards, take complete control of your life. Decide, once and for all, to be the master of your fate. Run your own race. Discover your calling and you will start to experience the ecstasy of an inspired life. — Robin Sharma
And the problem is once you get into this campaign business and begin to have a lot of money, then the person on the bench begins to think - what's going to happen if I decide the case this way or that way? — Stephen Breyer
Once I Decide Quotes
I decided upon the thought that I can only find myself once I can admit to myself and approve that both sides are sides of myself. — Kim Nam-joon
A gentleman opposed to their enfranchisement once said to me, women have never produced anything of any value to the world. I told him the chief product of the women had been the men, and left it to him to decide whether the product was of any value. — Anna Howard Shaw
I will be the focal point for however long I decide to play. Half of me likes that idea and half of me doesn't, but once the adrenaline kicks in, I'll probably really enjoy it. — Martin Gore
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
I once had a garden filled with flowers that grew only on dark thoughts, but they needed constant attention and one day I decided I had better things to do. — Brian Andreas
I love to think. I once considered taking drugs as an attempt to better understand an altered state of mind; however, I decided not to. I didn't want to chance ruining the machine. — Richard P. Feynman
Work hard on each opinion, but once the case is decided, don't look back; go on to the next case and give it your all. It's not productive to worry about what's out and released, over and done. That's advice I now give to people new to the judging business. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.
In the Miss America system talent is worth 50 percent of a contestant's points so my mom encouraged me to give it a try. And once I decided to do it, like anything else, I gave it 110 percent. — Gretchen Carlson
I've come to the conclusion that, aside from Nazis, the Taliban, and possibly the honey badger, there is no one on the planet more merciless than a teenage girl once she's decided she dislikes you. — Meg Cabot
I covered two presidents, LBJ and Nixon, who could no longer convince, persuade, or govern, once people had decided they had no credibility, but we seem to be more tolerant now of what I think we should not tolerate. — Helen Thomas
I took acting classes in college, and once I graduated, I decided to give acting a shot when I couldn't really think of anything else to do. It took me a couple of years to get an agent, and my first big break was The Fanelli Boys, which was a sitcom on NBC. Then I did a few television movies. — Christopher Meloni
Once I Have Decided Quotes
I think both of us [ with Steve Oram], once we decided to do comedy, knew that we would have to come to London to do that. — Alice Lowe
I have decided not to appeal the ruling that took my law license. My accusers, the Board of Supervisors, once again have fired my lawyers, ensuring I cannot properly defend myself or my anti-corruption efforts. — Andrew Thomas
I think I've been mildly obsessed with my hair. I don't think I have a hugely adversarial relationship with it. One my essay is about my decision to keep coloring my hair once it started to go gray, but once I wrote the essay - once the book was in production - I decided to go gray. — Elizabeth Benedict
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.
I had been pushed as far as I could stand to be pushed. I had decided that I would have to know once and for all what rights I had as a human being and a citizen. — Rosa Parks
I once knew it. I only hope that I can regain my own identity, once I decide that Perry Mason and myself have come to the parting of the road. Perry Mason has become a career for me . . . all I know is that I work, eat and sleep Perry Mason. — Raymond Burr
I am a great believer in the OHIO principle: Only handle it once. When you read an e-mail, decide whether or not to reply to it, and, if you need to reply, do so right then and there. I have found that about 80 percent of all e-mails, whether internal or external, do not require a response. — Robert Pozen
The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are
I'm the kind of guy that once I decide I'm going to do something I have a hard time just giving up on it without giving it a fair shot. — Drew Roy
And you know when I was growing up, I knew I wanted to have kids, but I knew I didn't want to do it alone. Then once I was 41, 42, I had to accept that I probably wouldn't have kids unless I decided to adopt later on, but even then it would be with a partner. — Rachel Dratch
Every once in a while you just have to decide to do something very crazy and very right--just to dare yourself to live. I don't mean doing something stupid and destructive--just something fun and good and beautiful. — Regina Doman
Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game. — Voltaire
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament. — Vladimir Lenin
A wise man once said that we can't make anyone feel or do anything. We can throw things into the wind, but it's up to each person to decide how they want to react, where they want to stand when things fall. — Jonathan Maberry
They're very tenacious. They're dedicated. Once a woman decides she's going to do something, she'll probably stick to it. The only problem with women is if there's anything wrong with them, they won't tell you. They'll get out there and run on one leg. They don't moan and groan like a lot of men do. — Arthur Lydiard
A Venezuelan dictator once decided to stop leprosy. He saw that most lepers in his country were also beggars. By the simple expedient of collecting and destroying all the beggars in Venezuela an end was put to leprosy in that country. — L. Ron Hubbard
To decide once every few years which members of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament-this is the real essence of bourgeois parliamentarism, not only in parliamentary- constitutional monarchies, but also in the most democratic republics. — Vladimir Lenin
Regarding 'Ferris Bueller,' I was in the Czech Republic once, in Prague, making a movie at the same time as Jeffrey Jones, who played the principal, who was making a different movie. The Super Bowl was going to be playing at this bar at midnight, so we decided we would go watch the Super Bowl at this bar at midnight in Prague together. — Edie McClurg
Empathy, he once had decided, must be limited to herbivores or anyhow omnivores who could depart from a meat diet. Because,ultimately, the empathic gift blurred the boundaries between hunter and victim, between the successful and the defeated. — Philip K. Dick
I don't really wanna think about themes. I wanna just think about the experience of the movie. I feel like, as soon as I reduce it to a theme, once I write that sentence, it won't be that great. I feel like there's more potential for it to mean something interesting if I'm not forcing it to mean something I've already decided. — Wes Anderson
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. — Arnold Bennett
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. — Thomas A. Bennett
A purpose statement is, in essence, a written-down reason for being. Jesus' mission helped him decide how to act, what to do, and even what to say when challenging situations arose. Clarity is power: Once you are clear about what you were put here to do then 'jobs' become only a means toward accomplishing your mission, not an end in themselves. — Laurie Beth Jones
You can hesitate before deciding, but not once the decision is made. — Jose Bergamin
So the president is like, "Well, once upon a time it was Congress's job to decide whether or not we attacked countries, so let's let them decide." Which is funny, because, as we all know, if Congress were on fire, Congress could not pass the "Pour Water on Congress Act". — Hank Green
If you really do love her, don’t look away, no matter what happens. No matter what you see, no matter what you learn about her, don’t look away. Once you got her in your embrace, don’t let go. Once you decide you love someone, that’s your responsibility. — Ryohgo Narita
We come from fallible parents who were kids once, who decided to have kids and who had to learn how to be parents. Faults are made and damage is done, whether it's conscious or not. Everyone's got their own 'stuff,' their own issues, and their own anger at Mom and Dad. That is what family is. Family is almost naturally dysfunctional. — Chris Pine
Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side. — James Russell Lowell
Once the Supreme Court in 1973 decided that infanticide could be legal, it not only ended Americas inalienable right to life, it threw the Golden Rule right off the shores of this continent. — Michael Moriarty
During the Battle of Britain the question "fighter or fighter-bomber?" had been decided once and for all: The fighter can only be used as a bomb carrier with lasting effect when sufficient air superiority has been won. — Adolf Galland
We must give lengthy deliberation to what has to be decided once and for all. — Publilius Syrus
Quitting’s not hard. Deciding to quit is hard. Once you make that mental leap, the rest is easy.” “Really? Was that how you quit me? — Gayle Forman
If you put your hand into a fire, does anyone have to tell you to move it? Do you have to decide? No: When your hand starts to burn, it moves. You don’t have to direct it; the hand moves itself. In the same way, once you understand, through inquiry, that an untrue thought causes suffering, you move away from it. — Byron Katie
You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish. — Anita Brookner
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