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Decisions and choices32 quotes
Get busy livin' or get busy dyin'. — Andy Dufresne · 1994Always let your conscience be your guide. — Jiminy Cricket · 1940You may keep one of your children. The other one must go. — SS Doctor · 1982Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living. — Karl Marx · 1852The die is cast. — Julius Caesar · 49 BCAn act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible. — William James · 1890All 32 quotes →Indecision3 quotes
More is lost by indecision than wrong decision. — Tony Soprano · 2002How long will you waver between two opinions? — Elijah · 538 BCThere is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. — William James · 1890Bad decisions2 quotes
When reason fails, the devil helps! — Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1866You chose poorly. — Grail Knight · 1989Free will2 quotes
Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living. — Karl Marx · 1852Goodness is chosen. When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man. — Prison Governor · 1971Freedom2 quotes
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms-to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way. — Viktor Frankl · 1946Those who have ever valued liberty for its own sake believed that to be free to choose, and not to be chosen for, is an inalienable ingredient in what makes human beings human. — Isaiah Berlin · 1969Life2 quotes
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. — J.R.R. Tolkien · 1954Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us. — Learned Hand · 1939Reason2 quotes
When reason fails, the devil helps! — Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1866The great decisions of human life have as a rule far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness. — Carl Jung · 1933Actions have consequences1 quote
We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar... Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out. — William James · 1890Attitude and mindset1 quote
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms-to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way. — Viktor Frankl · 1946Being oneself1 quote
At some point, you gotta decide for yourself who you gonna be. Can't let nobody make that decision for you. — Juan · 2016Character1 quote
It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. — J.K. Rowling · 1998Conscience1 quote
Always let your conscience be your guide. — Jiminy Cricket · 1940Counterfactual history1 quote
If you had it to do all over again, would you make the same choices? — Mike McDermott · 1998Drugs1 quote
When you're on junk you have only one worry: scoring. When you're off it, you are suddenly obliged to worry about all sorts of other shite. Got no money: can't get pissed. Got money: drinking too much. Can't get a bird: no chance of a ride. Got a bird: too much hassle. You have to worry about bills, about food, about some football team that never fucking wins, about human relationships and all the things that really don't matter when you've got a sincere and truthful junk habit. — Mark Renton · 1996Effects of the past1 quote
Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living. — Karl Marx · 1852Fear1 quote
Don't ever make decisions based on fear. Make decisions based on hope and possibility. Make decisions based on what should happen, not what shouldn't. — Michelle Obama · 2008Feeling empowered1 quote
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go. — Dr. Seuss · 1990Finding oneself1 quote
At some point, you gotta decide for yourself who you gonna be. Can't let nobody make that decision for you. — Juan · 2016Formation of character1 quote
We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar... Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out. — William James · 1890Giving up1 quote
Get busy livin' or get busy dyin'. — Andy Dufresne · 1994Heroin1 quote
When you're on junk you have only one worry: scoring. When you're off it, you are suddenly obliged to worry about all sorts of other shite. Got no money: can't get pissed. Got money: drinking too much. Can't get a bird: no chance of a ride. Got a bird: too much hassle. You have to worry about bills, about food, about some football team that never fucking wins, about human relationships and all the things that really don't matter when you've got a sincere and truthful junk habit. — Mark Renton · 1996Hope1 quote
Don't ever make decisions based on fear. Make decisions based on hope and possibility. Make decisions based on what should happen, not what shouldn't. — Michelle Obama · 2008Hope vs. fear1 quote
Don't ever make decisions based on fear. Make decisions based on hope and possibility. Make decisions based on what should happen, not what shouldn't. — Michelle Obama · 2008How to live1 quote
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. — J.R.R. Tolkien · 1954Human nature1 quote
Goodness is chosen. When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man. — Prison Governor · 1971Inflection points1 quote
Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide,
In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side. — James Russell Lowell · 1845Intuition1 quote
The great decisions of human life have as a rule far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness. — Carl Jung · 1933Life and death1 quote
You must choose, but choose wisely for as the true Grail will bring you life, the false Grail will take it from you. — Grail Knight · 1989Living life to the fullest1 quote
Get busy livin' or get busy dyin'. — Andy Dufresne · 1994Management1 quote
There is no real direction here, neither lines of power nor cooperation. Decisions are never really made-at best they manage to emerge, from a chaos of peeves, whims, hallucinations and all around assholery. — Thomas Pynchon · 1973