Quotation Explorer - 'Decide'

Superior poets say what they really feel. Mediocre poets say what they decide to feel. Inferior poets say what they think they should feel. - Álvaro de Campos
If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience. - William James
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It’s as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer. - Nolan Bushnell
Who is an elected government in a constitutional democracy to decide it will not tolerate dissent - Christina Engela
Circumstances don't determine who you are, or what you will be. Only you do that. You either decide, or you don't. Even the decision not to decide was still yours. - Julie-Anne
Life is at its best when everything has fallen out of place, and you decide that you're going to fight to get them right, not when everything is going your way and everyone is praising you. - Thisuri Wanniarachchi
Are we friends? or are we foes? ... That kind of thing... You decide... For yourselves!!! - Eiichiro Oda
We are made by the choices we make. We are defined, not by how or where we were born but what we make out of the "where" and "how"; not much of how we started but more of how we decide to end. - Olaotan Fawehinmi
Committee--a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done. - Fred Allen
We can decide our fate every day, when we love we will be loved. - Ron Baratono
What you were is yesterday.What you are is now.What you can be is tomorrow.What you decide to be is today. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Try to find pleasure in the speed that you're not used to. Changing the way you do routine things allows a new person to grow inside of you. But when all is said and done, you're the one who must decide how you handle it. - Paulo Coelho
The Cycle of True Love: First I see and think I love, then I say I know I love, today and forever more I decide to love. - Michael Sweeney
In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete. - Sara Zarr
And sometimes both of them forgot that what they were undergoing amid the clink of cutlery and crockery was a mutual interview that might decide whether or not they would own a common set of those items some time in the whimsical future. - Vikram Seth
When you don't change, history repeats itself. Then you have to decide if changing is for the best, or you keep seeing repeats because you're doing something right. - Rebecca McKinsey
Your secret sin vs your destiny you decide which one wins. - Joe Joe Dawson
Purposely decide what you want to do. - Lailah Gifty Akita
I can't decide whether I'm a good girl wrapped up in a bad girl, or if I'm a bad girl wrapped up in a good girl. And that's how I know I'm a woman! - C. JoyBell C.
God created all things. It's men who decide which ones are mistakes. - Beautiful Creatures
The kind of soil in your area determines the type of crop you will plant to harvest; The kind of potentials in you will decide the type of success you will celebrate. - Israelmore Ayivor
Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean. - Christopher Reeve
At times there will be fire; this we can't avoid. But it's up to us to decide whether it will consume or it will purify. - Cristen Rodgers
It is the responsibility of scientists never to suppress knowledge, no matter how awkward that knowledge is, no matter how it may bother those in power; we are not smart enough to decide which pieces of knowledge are permissible, and which are not. - Carl Sagan
We’re making our decisions or so we think. Yet in truth, ignorance, greed, and the scourge of immediate gratification are often the things that are making them. So if we’re going to truly live well, maybe the first thing we need to decide is who’s deciding. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
Anyone can become your best friend when you spend time together and share your feelings about life. However, not every best friend can free you from yourself. This is when you reconsider the word "best" and decide to expand your circle to include others. - Shannon L. Alder
Only the winners decide what were war crimes.
Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.
In life, the first thing you must do is decide what you really want. Weigh the costs and the results. Are the results worthy of the costs? Then make up your mind completely and go after your goal with all your might. - Alfred A. Montapert
Imagine no limitations; decide what's right and desirable before you decide what's possible. - Brian Tracy
When you consciously decide to be in a good mood every morning, you create an atmosphere of joy and peace. Practice mood control daily... it will then become a habit. Don't put the control of your emotions in the hands of others. - Randa Manning-Johnson
When I write fiction, I struggle to decide the fate of two people created by my mind and spend countless hours to give them a happy ending. God, the Almighty has created infinite human beings till date and runs all our lives with such ease. He is the BEST WRITER of all. - Shahla Khan
They are called, "SELF-worth" and "SELF-esteem" for a reason... we can't let others decide what we are worth, that is so dangerous! Empower yourself! - Jaeda DeWalt
Death changes us, the living. In the presence of death, we become more aware of life.... It can inspire us to decide what really matters in life--and then to seek it. (Founder of M.A.D.D.) - Candy Lightner
Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art. - Andy Warhol
All we can do is write, but its up to the reader to decide if we wrote masterpieces or empty silliness, and there is nothing you can do till another reader says different. - Uma Nnenna
Whatever you do you need courage.Whatever course you decide upon, there will always be someone to tell you that you are wrong. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Laws decide wich forms of oppression are allowed, Lord. And because of that, those laws are servants to those in power, for whom oppression is given as a right over those who have little or no power. - Steven Erikson
Each child is a new being, a potentialprophet, a new spiritual prince, a new spark of light.... Whoare we to decide that it is hopeless (impossible)? - Derric Yuh Ndim
There comes a time in every woman's life where she will decide to eat cookie dough. It is when and how that truly defines her. - Solange nicole
You become what you believe, decide, and act upon. - Anese Cavanaugh
When you get clear on your own boundaries, you will find it easy to decide what you are willing to accept in your career. - Julieanne O'Conner
There's no destiny; you just decide where you end. - Michael Bassey Johnson
It's a toss-up when you decide to leave the beaten track. Many are called, but few are chosen. - W. Somerset Maugham
Somewhere deep down we know that in the final analysis we do decide things and that even our decisions to let someone else decide are really our decisions, however pusillanimous. - Harvey Cox
Knowledge empowers people with our most powerful tool: the ability to think and decide. There is no power for change greater than a child discovering what he or she cares about. (Speech about Global Warming read on the National Mall for the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, 2010) - Seymour Simon
Oh but it is Mr Bernstein, it is the ultimate game. And, once you take this folder you will have precisely 14 days in which to decide whether or not you would like to play. - Adrian Dawson
The world will change for the better when people decide they are sick and tired of being sick and tired of the way the world is, and decide to change themselves. - Sidney Madwed
Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it. -, author, civil rights activist, US congressman, mayor, and UN ambassador (b. 1932) - Andrew Young
Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. - William Lyon Phelps
At any given moment you have power to decide how your story is going to end - Robin Dabhi
You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice. If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill. I will choose a path thats clear. I will choose Freewill. - Neil Peart
Hope is possible, when you decide to believe that what you are hoping for is possible. - Patti Snodgrass
To give money is an easy matter and in any man's power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in everyman's power nor an easy matter. - Aristotle
Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it. - J. K. Rowling
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them. - Karl Marx
Decide to be fine until the end of the week. Make yourself smile, because you're alive and that's your job. Then do it again the next week. I call it being professional. Do it right, with a smile, or don't do it. - -Frank Devereaux (Supernatural)
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 one who'll decide where to go.... - Dr. Seuss
Our lives are a novel being written. We are its author. Every action we encounter and every person we meet has a role and a place in our ultimate story. It is in our control to decide the level of how, who and what impacts us and how large a role we decide to assign each. - Mark W. Boyer
You have 100% control over yourself, and your life. It is up to you to stop giving your power away, and to decide what you want to be, do, or have...and go after it. - B. Dave Walters
Whatever course you decide upon there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires....courage. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
At the side of Enjolras, who represented the logic of revolution, was Combeferre, representing its philosophy. The difference between logic and philosophy is that one can decide upon war, whereas the other can only be fulfilled by peace. - Victor Hugo
The government is merely a servant―merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them. - Mark Twain
I've broken an arm before, but no one wanted to shoot me!' Suzie says. 'I mean, when you go to the emergency room I hope to God the doctors don't decide it might cost too much to care for.' -Suzie Schwab co-owner of East Maui Animal Refuge - Toni Polancy
The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
He is free knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.
Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute. - Cicero
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. - J. R. R. Tolkien
I encourage you, to take control to take back your power. Make the time and effort to invest in yourself. Self-care and healing. Taking time for stillness and contemplation. Reflect on your own behaviour. Decide what kind of person you want to be and then take the steps to be that person. - Akiroq Brost
The people who cast the votes do not decide an election, the people who count the votes do. - Joseph Stalin
He misses her. He wonders if she knows it, and can't decide which would be worse. - Belleutiful
Life is Ambition, not for Survive but for Be Better each second, for Superate your Records and to Get your Goals.All the rest is a Redundant Speech & a Boring Literature.You Decide the Direction of your Life, but remains Inspired and Assume all the Consequences.Complacency is Death. - Fernando González y Lozano
The moment we decide to throw more energy into fighting for our mate than with him, the crack of a fist on the enemy's jaw splits the ears of angels. - Beth Moore
The sooner you decide that it is alright to believe the opposite of what the masses do, and that it is alright to trust the universe, and you choose to be happy rather than be right, the sooner you will be happy. - Malti Bhojwani
The President and the Congress are all very well in their way. They can say what they think they think, but it rests with the Supreme Court to decide what they have really thought. - Theodore Roosevelt
There are so many people in the world with so little. Who cares why you decide to help? - Amy Poehler
Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical. - Trey Parker and Matt Stone
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny. - ― Albert Ellis
That you rescued few peoples lifes or somebody's life. Doesn't mean that they we return this back!They could decide to kill you..., who knows? (Person Of Interest) - Deyth Banger
You don't choose your life; it chooses you. There's no point in asking why life has reserved certain joys or griefs, you just accept them and carry on. We can't shoos our lives, but we can decide what to do with the joys and griefs we're given. - Paul Coelho
Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law. Understand that we are you. Understand that if we decide to have sex whether safe, safer, or unsafe, it is our decision and you have no rights in our lovemaking. - Derek Jarman
My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives. - Rita Rudner
In the end, we decide if we're remembered for what happened to us or for what we did with it. - Randy K. Milholland
Some people come into your life at the right time for the most intense reasons and then some leave your life at the perfect time for the most saddest of reasons, time decides who you meet & you decide who stays. - Nikki Rowe
Some day soon," Lance said, "you'll walk out of here and have to decide how you're going to live the rest of your lives. Will you be defined by what other people see, or by the essence of your soul? - Andrew Davidson
You are only earning the life you get when your inaction allows people to decide for you. - Shannon L. Alder
The day you decide you know all you should or could is the day you start dying. - Gavin Mills
Mind was crafted to preserve some and forget some. We have to decide when to choose delete button. - Shikha Kaul
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant.
All that we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. - J. R. R. Tolkien
I decide a book is bad if I get angrier and angrier as I read it. - Daniel T. O'Hara
What people decide to do is their lot. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. - Martin Luther King Jr.
If you decide to do anything and follow throughwith actions with the same intensity as your decision, you willdefinitely end up with an excellent result. - Derric Yuh Ndim
Nós, homens, somos uns pobres escravos dos preconceitos (...)Por outro lado, quando uma mulher decide ir para a cama com um homm não muralha qye não trema nem fortaleza que não caia, nem nenhuma consideração moral que esteja disposta a ser o seu fundamento: não Deus que lhe valha. - Gabriel García Márquez
YOU ARE WHO AND WHAT YOU DECIDE YOU ARE—NOTHING MORE, NOTHING LESS. - Christopher Babson
If you choose not to decide -- you still have made a choice!
Trying is something we do when we think we can’t do something. Even if your doing is not as perfect as you would like, decide to do it, and you will. -- Lady Nimrod of Buckmore in The Princelings and the Lost City - Jemima Pett
The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered. - Andre Gide
Making the decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body - Elizabeth Stone
When you decide to meet—in person—someone that you met online, would you then be taking your relationship to the 'previous' level? - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
In the world of dogma, you become free the day you decide to go to hell. - Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel
You get to decide what to worship. - David Foster Wallace
If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice. - Neil Peart
Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond. - Jeffrey T. Borenstein
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. - Robert Frost
For almost 18 years you’re taught to sit down, shut up, and raise your hand. Then you have to decide what you’re going to do for the rest of your life. - Lavon Curtis
Some people may decide to hate you for no reason simply because your confidence reminds them of their insecurities. - Ali. B. Moe
Then I had to decide if I needed to wear shoes that kicked ass or were good for ass kicking, on account of there's a difference you know. ~ Finger Lickin' Fifteen - Janet Evanovich
When a person tells you that you hurt them, you don’t get to decide that you didn’t. - Louis C.K.
When a situation becomes too uncomfortable for you, it's either it's way bigger than you can handle or you've become too big for it. The catch, though, is that you decide which is - To outgrow it or let it grow all over you. - Ufuoma Apoki
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 cars in order to win the game. - Voltaire
As we have seen there is some kind of continuity in any case since every experience affects for better or worse the attitudes which help decide the quality of further experiences, by setting up certain preference and aversion, and making it easier or harder to act for this or that end. - John Dewey
You and I have the decision to decide what we are going to be with our life! Or we can let the paradigm control us and march along in lockstep type fashion. - Bob Proctor
The one who has suffered has the right to decide the course of action....Punishment or Let Go is purely the call of the sufferer. - Adil Adam Memon
The only way you will ever be free is when you decide you have had enough of living up to the standards other people force upon you through shame. Never wear their chains of judgment when they can’t break free of their own. - Shannon L. Alder
The morning will come In the press of every kiss, With your head upon my chest Where I will annoy you With every waking breath Until you decide to wake up. - Coheed and Cambria
Religion holds the solution to all problems of human relationship, whether they are between parents and children or nation and nation. Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.
Try to get as much as possible knowledge about the Universe in your life. Because after your death it will decide whether you will become God or reborn as a human to learn remaining knowledge. - Aishwarya Shiva Pareek
Basically, writers write because they have something to say...Everyone has a story in them, writers merely decide to share it with the world... - Virginia Alison
Some may decide to build homes somewhere new, and others have homes that await them. Like a break in a relationship, we simply needed some time apart to be better for the future. - klarfeld
When you don't decide, others decide for you. - Marty Rubin
You can choose a ready guide In some celestial voice If you choose not to decide You still have made a choice You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill I will choose a path that's clear I will choose free will.
What you decide to be is what you will begin to see. - Franklin Gillette
Ranking Can’t decide who to Love! - Udayveer Singh
One has to decide to know the nature of the Soul. Will one not have to know that? Nothing is attained by just saying, ‘I am the Soul, I am the Soul.’ The Soul has to come in to one’s experience, until then the worldly problems will not go away, will they? - Dada Bhagwan
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want. - Ben Stein
The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything. - Joseph Stalin
The ultimate decision [of wearing hijab] must be that of the individual. Western opinions on the hijab or burkas are rather irrelevant. We don't get to decide for Muslim women what does or does not oppress them, no matter how highly we think of ourselves. - Roxane Gay
You don't decide what your purpose is in life you discover it. Your purpose is your reason for living. - Bob Proctor
We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children - Howard Zinn
Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it. - George Eliot
Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward. - Amelia Earhart
You decide every moment of every day who you are and what you believe in.The good news is you get another chance to improve in another second. - JohnA Passaro
Your religious beliefs are your business. They are not and should not be the basis for law. If you use them as justification to discriminate against others, don’t be upset when others decide you’re an asshole."[] Jim C. Hines - Blog post of July 26, 2011
When someone tells you that you have done something that has hurt them, you don’t get to decide that you didn’t. - Karon Waddell
I must go, uncertain of my fate; but I shall return hither, or follow your party, as soon as possible. A word, a look will be enough to decide whether I enter your father's house tonight or never. - Jane Austen
What we must decide is how we are valuable rather than how valuable we are.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live now. - Joan Baez
Nothing is illegal if a hundred businessmen decide to do it.
Decide your destiny. - Lailah Gifty Akita
The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence. - Freeman Dyson
A problem isn't a real problem till you decide to make it a problem... so what's the problem again? - Runa Magnus
Your future, hopes and dreams should never be tied down to anybody! The strength lies inside of you to decide at any moment your direction. - Chinonye J. Chidolue
When you think this pain is all you deserve, you are right. You are the only one that can decide how long you will walk in hell. - Shannon L. Alder
Money should not dictate how I live my life..I must take charge and become the master of money, so that I decide what I want to do with my time. - Manoj Arora
Do you know why I am unstoppable? It is because I decide my stopping line. ~ Aarush Kashyap - Kirtida Gautam
To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life.
Loving someone isn’t a hard task, it’s not a chore, you don’t wake up one day and decide to break their heart because you got all hot and bothered, that doesn’t happen! he boomed. - Holly Hood
Every day is as amazing as we decide it is. - Toni Sorenson
The most decisive actions of our life -- I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future -- are, more often than not, unconsidered. - Andre Gide
Life is cocktail of all things- pain, pleasure, enjoyment, exploration, breaking up & healing up.The moment when you decide what to hold on and what to let go in life, the life will be more like that. And one can enjoy this cocktail only when you learn to let go things easily. - raja shakeel mushtaque
I don't remember deciding to become a writer. You decide to become a dentist or a postman. For me, writing is like being gay. You finally admit that this is who you are, you come out and hope that no one runs away. - Mark Haddon
I have had my dream—like others—And it has come to nothing, so thatI remain now carelesslyWith feet planted on the ground,And look up at the sky—Feeling my clothes about me,The weight of my body in my shoes,The rim of my hat, air passing in and outAt my nose—and decide to dream no more. - William Carlos Williams
You are born to rule or to be ruled. It’s for you to decide which path to choose. - Vinita Kinra
I wanted to make people think, to open their minds, to give them a full picture of what was happening in Iraq so they can decide whether they supported our presence there. - Lynsey Addario
Choices, options, decisions abound. Choose right, take the best option and decide well. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Fate determines what comes into your life,you decide what you want in your life,and your choices decide what stays in your life. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Dream big dreams! Imagine that you have no limitations and then decide what's right before you decide what's possible. - Brian Tracy
The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.
As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around. - Oprah Winfrey
A friend told me that each morning when we get up we have to decide whether we are going to save or savor the world. I don't think that is the decision. It's not an either-or, save or savor. We have to do both, save and savor the world. - Kate Clinton
Just because someone has been in your life for many years, doesn’t mean there shouldn’t be a point at which you finally decide to let go. - Wilfred James Dolor
Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself. - Coco Chanel
Decide to be HAPPY when you start your day. Commit to put JOY in whatever comes your way. You may be hurt by what people say, but don't let anyone spoil your Day.- - RVM
People become successful the minute they decide to. - Harvey MacKay
Women who display themselves as sex objects do not represent women as a gender anymore than the chippendales or Ron Jeremy represent you. Women are not a homogenous group who all get together to decide how or who they will be. - Anonymouse
I believe that uncertainty is really my spirit's way of whispering, "I'm in flux. I can't decide for you. Something is off-balance here." - Oprah Winfrey
Most people have fear to compromise with life.You got to take the reins of your life in your own hands, and direct it yourself.You decide how you use your time. - Kristin Ketelslegers
Money serves those who can match it the right way. So it is for us to decide and understand the meaning of Live Rich or Die Rich - Gian Kumar
I collect my thoughts, I choose my words, Whenever I decide to talk to you.But...I feel like a dumb, without a tongue,Whenever I reach in front of you.I wonder why it happens to me?even when my feelings are genuine and true. - Saad Salman
Happiness is a decision and so as Love. If you decide to be happy then you're happy. If you decide to love then you love. - Ann Marie Aguilar
Waiting for God to give you want He has ALREADY decided for you and waiting for someone to decide on you--is NOT the same. - Adrianne D. Pless
We have the ability to write the blueprint for our own goals, and decide how we want to pursue them. If we allow others to do it for us, we won’t achieve our full potential to be the best we can be. - Ellen J. Barrier
If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny. - Thomas Jefferson
Healing is not a process, it is a choice. Nothing can heal your scars until you decide to. - Shilpa Menon
The bible divides mankind, god will decide our fate. - Sixeye
What I have done is to show that it is possible for the way the universe began to be determined by the laws of science. In that case, it would not be necessary to appeal to God to decide how the universe began. This doesn't prove that there is no God, only that God is not necessary. - Stephen Hawking
It's hard to decide if TV makes morons out of everyone or if it mirrors Americans who really are morons to begin with. - Martin Mull
Somewhere deep down we know that in the final analysis, we do decide things and that even our decisions to let someone else decide are really our decisions, however pusillanimous. - Harvey Cox
a group of people who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done - Fred Allen
Decide what you stand for. And then stand for it all the time. - Clayton M. Christensen
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done. - Fred Allen
Don’t promise when you’re happy, don’t reply when you’re angry, and don’t decide when you’re sad. - Ziad K. Abdelnour
What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make. - Jane Goodall
If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly. - Thomas Sowell
Decide to be HAPPY when you start your day. Commit to put JOY in whatever comes your way. You may be hurt by what people say, but don’t let anyone spoil your Day.- - RVM
If you’re not far enough along to be able to decide, you’re not ready. - Auliq Ice
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You don't blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the President. You realize that you control your own destiny. - Albert Ellis
It takes your knowing to decide on your going. If you know where you are going, you will keep going because you have already seen yourself gone - Israelmore Ayivor
I'm not only my spirit buy my body, and who can decide how much I, my individual self, am conditioned by the accident of my body? Would Byron have been Byron but for his club foot, or Dostoyevsky Dostoyevsky without his epilepsy? - W. Somerset Maugham
You are the only one who gets to decide what you will be remembered for. - Taylor Swift
Be determined to live a pure, holy and godly life; decide to honor, love and value other people, and to live a life that reflects Christ to others - Sunday Adelaja
if you are able to decide , then you are able to be happy - hiba bouchallouf
In life, you will find two things. The quiet beauty of Darkness, and the bright songs of Light. The choice is yours to decide which will be you, and which will be your shadow. - Taylor Chackowsky
To be a highflier and a name to conjure with, you must decide your dimension, plan your path, master the moment, focus on the future, determine your degree, push your persistence and leadyour life. - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Decide to be rich! Hate poverty strong. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu
As our body journeys through life, and life journeys on our body….life will leave marks on us too. From the creases of our wrinkles to the birthmarks on our bodies to the tattoos we decide to place. - lauren klarfeld
Sometimes the facts in my head get bored and decide to take a walk in my mouth. Frequently this is a bad thing. - Scott Westerfeld
When you decide - follow it up with action as spontaneously as possible if not sooner because the quicker you reciprocate with the decision the sooner you shall see results. - Auliq Ice
Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved,it would be much simpler, but much less magical - Trey Parker
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.
When you finally decide to face all your fears, then be assured that success is knocking at your door. - Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA
Nothing changes until people decide to do the things they must, in order to bring about peace. - Shannon L. Alder
While we don't have much say over the desires that we have, we certainly can decide which we prefer-and then search for ways to act on that basis. - Daniel Akst
i choose to focus my energy on what I believe deserves my time, life passes us by so quickly and before we know it; were looking back at our story, make sure the choices you decide on; will give you a movie worth watching. - Nikki Rowe
When the storm rips you to pieces, you have to decide how to put yourself back together again. - Bryant McGill
Everything is something I decide to do, and there is nothing I have to do.
At one point in your life you have to decide whether you want to become a sachem or a solitary. - Akilnathan Logeswaran
Youth is the most suitable age to enjoy the life completely or to work diligently for the life, what you decide makes your rest of the life ordinary or legendary respectively. - Amit Kalantri
Never ask an elf for help; they might decide your better off dead, eh?" (Orik) (Eldest) (Page 207) - Christopher Paolini
COINS are for LAZY PEOPLE to DECIDE and for WISE MEN to INVEST. - shaikh mustafa
I feel good about taking things to Goodwill and actually, I do like shopping at Goodwill. It's so cheap that it feels like a library where I am just checking things out for awhile until I decide to take them back. - April Foiles
Troubles often decides your deepest friends,but deepest friend will never decide to put you into trouble. - Bradley B. Dalina
Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work. - H.L. Hunt
The Vatican won't prosecute pedophile priests but I decide I'm not ready for motherhood and it's condemnation for me? These are the same people that won't support national condom distribution that PREVENTS teenage pregnancy. - Sonya Renee Taylor
In the future system, you will decide how your bodies look and feel, but only til then will you have the choice. - David L. Lloyd
Because all actions and expressionsstem from the mind, it is vital to know themind as well as decide in what way we’ll use it. Everyone has heard of psychosomatic illness, and most of us acknowledge that psychosomatic sicknesses can and do occur. But whatabout psychosomatic wellness? - H.E. Davey
Choosing the right career is the most difficult task for a person who is multi-talented and versatile. Because its hard to decide what field to go into, when you are good at too many things. - Saad Salman
The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count them decide everything.
Let reason alone decide - Parmenides
I am the prosecutor. I represent the state. I am here to present to you the evidence of a crime. Together you will weigh this evidence. You will deliberate upon it. You will decide if it proves the defendant's guilt. - Scott Turow
Your past isn’t there to decide who you are; it’s there to guide you to a better version of yourself. - Toni Sorenson
Politics is not a picture on a wall or a television sitcom that you can decide you don't much care for. - Molly Ivins
Don't we all deserve forgiveness? I hope we do; I believe we do. Forgiveness says as much about the character of the person bestowing it as the person receiving it. Learning to forgive may be the most difficult of human acts,and the closest thing to divinity, whatever you decide that is. - Justin Cronin
Let's take it as a "A" and "B" player. What if "A" decide to kill "B", "A" think that "B" is a evil guy... But "B" think that "A" is Evil so.... - Deyth Banger
Judge, criticize, object before you decide to believe something; but once you believe, you're but an idiot if you need to be scrupulous any more. - Raheel Farooq
Those who decide to live in the Present, must leave their past behind. Once past has been left behind, future also disappears! What is left then? The actual moment, the Present! Living in the here and now means that we are able to get rid of time and suffering! - Frank Wanderer
Success is to wake up each morning and consciously decide that today will be the best day of your life. - Ken Poirot
As the voices fall silent, the individuals who make up the amorphous and always changing community must decide for themselves, as they always have. I can’t write a coda because I can’t speak for others. I can only and ever speak for myself. - G.R. Reader
It's hard to decide matters of the heart, especially when Self-love is rooted in our decisions. You'll need to balance your needs with the people you love in order to avoid hurting others. - Auliq Ice
Wise people make trails and paths, clever walk on them - stupid people can't decide. - Deyth Banger
Life is not a race.....not a struggle,& bla bla ....We make it a race , struggle.It's we to decide how should it be. Actually Life is Present & the choices we choose in past. - Vaibhav Garg
What is the point of our lives? There isn't any. I can't seem to decide how much horror and how much joy lies within that simple truth, but I know it is both of those things at once. - Ashly Lorenzana
When you decide to be all you can be you will be better for it - Blake L. Higginbotham
A mistake does not make a shadow. The people who you hurt through the mistake and what they decide to say about it is what leaves a shadow. The only way to erase that shadow is to shed light on it. If that is not possible, moving on to somewhere brighter is always an option. - Justin David Nevins
I hope you know that you've given me the courage to change. I hope you know that who you are is who you choose to be, and that whispers behind your back don't define you. You are the only one who gets to decide what you will be remembered for. - Taylor Swift
Time is powerless. An instant could be enough for us and eternity could be too short. We, and only we, decide what time is for us. - Rom Amor
When you could do anything, what you decide to do is important. - Neal R. Voron
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it. - Nelson Bunker Hunt
We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us. - Stephen Covey
You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now. - Joan Baez
...when you hate someone so much, a part of you wants desperately to forgive them. But you can't decide if it's because you really want, or if you just want to stop hating. I still don't know if forgiveness is generous or selfish. Maybe both. - Miguel Syjuco
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters. - Abraham Lincoln
The heart wasn't designed to decide it was designed to feel. - Wordions
You, too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims and destination.
Each player must accept the cards life deals him. But once they are in hand, he alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game. - Voltaire
This is the responsibility we all owe to ourselves– that the purpose of our existence be to positively affect others with our gift and this does not begin when we feel we have become something. It begins when we decide to pick our gift and align it with it’s purpose. - Chinonye J. Chidolue
A veces una mujer encuentra los restos de un barco hecho pedazos y decide hacer con ellos un hombre sano. En ocasiones lo consigue. Otras veces una mujer encuentra un hombre sano y decide hacerlo pedazos. Siempre lo consigue. - Cesare Pavese
Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus. - Oprah Winfrey
We consciously decide whether to consider people; we fall in love despite ourselves; we entirely fail to fall in love with people who fall in love with us. It is a mightily complicated business. - Matt Ridley
You can't restore anything you've previously done, but you can face up to it. You can enlighten the reality. You can entreat forgiveness. And then let God decide and do the rest. - Nehali Lalwani
We don't have to go back to my place, Angel. I can take you home, if that's what you want. Or, if you decide you want to sleep at my place, on opposite sides of my bedroom with a Do Not Cross line drawn down the middle, I'll do it. I won't like it, but I'll do it. - Becca Fitzpatrick
You can’t control what others think. The only thing you can control is yourself. Some people will look down on you for your choices in life, no matter what they are. You can’t do anything about that. The only thing you can do is decide how to live your own life. And to hell with everybody else - Marie Sexton
Wherever you decide to go, proceed with your mind. - Amitav Chowdhury
To choose who to love, is a decision no one else can help you with -- you have to decide for yourself. - Auliq Ice
You have control over yourself. You are the master of your destiny. You're the captain of your ship and YOU are the one who'll decide where to go... - Ane Krstevska
To make a choice not to sacrifice is to decide that I am better off allowing a life to perish than release the resources I possess that might allow it to thrive. And because of choices such as these, the life that I am really allowing to perish is mine. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
Free will is about the power to decide for yourself without outside influence. That means no family, no religion, no ethnicity, no boundaries to encumber you in making decisions that are solely for YOUR LIFE. That is complete free will - Levon Peter Poe
People who are in business can promote anyone as they need money to run the show, it is up to a person as an audience to apply brain and decide whether that individual deserves support or not. - Anuj Somany
Not to decide is to decide. - Harvey Cox
In short, do you keep pace with those around you, or do you decide yourself just how you will live your life? The truth is...only you are qualified to set your standards. Only you can determine how you should live and what you will finally expect from yourself. - Steve Goodier
Very few people see their own actions as truly evil,... It is left to their victims to decide what is evil and what is not. - Laurell K. Hamilton
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide. - Napoléon Bonaparte
You were born a winner; you decide whether you remain one or not. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Ending a series is a difficult one .......where should a story that you have followed for so long end? When do you step away from the characters and let the readers decide their fate from there? When they can stand on their own is my only answer for that. - Shandy L. Kurth
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own.You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny. - Albert Ellis
The most important thing you must decide to do every day is put the Lord first. - Elizabeth George
Once you decide to do right, life is easy, there are no distractions. - William Stafford
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