Quotes about Decision

Moses never called for a committee when the Egyptians were breathing down his neck.

It's up to you to choose whether you're going to use your body, which includes your brain, for sin or for the sake of righteousness.

My idea was to stay in Madrid. Then, when I heard of Munich's interest, I said, 'Xabi, think what you want and where you will be happy.'

You have to choose your future regrets.

When the news reached me of McPherson's victory at Raymond about sundown my position was with Sherman. I decided at once to turn the whole column towards Jackson and capture that place without delay.

Was there a voice that whispered in his ear that he had just passed the most solemn moment of his destiny, that there was no longer a middle course for him; that from now on, he would either be the best of men or he would be the worst of men; that he now had to rise higher, so to speak, than the bishop or fall even lower than the galley slave; that if he wanted to be good, he had to be an angel; that if he wanted to stay bad, he had to be a monster from hell?

Ladies, a second piece of advice--do not marry; marriage is a graft; it may take hold or not. Shun the risk.

He had come to the supreme crossing of good and evil. He had that gloomy intersection beneath his eyes. On this occasion once more, as had happened to him already in other sad vicissitudes, two roads opened out before him, the one tempting, the other alarming. Which was he to take?

Supreme resources spring from extreme resolutions. To embark in death is sometimes the means of escaping a shipwreck; and the lid of the coffin becomes a plank of safety.

But man, because he has only one life to live, cannot conduct experiments to test whether to follow his passion (compassion) or not.

We can never know what to want, because, only living one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor the perfect it in our lives to come.

Frequent mists swirling across the countryside drifted between me and the populated land, so that the world was as it was on the fifth day of creation, when God was still undecided whether he should hand it over to Man.