Wise Quotes about Decide

The indispensable first step to getting
the things you want out of life is this:
Decide what you want.
- Ben Stein

Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Strength does not come from winning.
Your struggles develop your strengths.
When you go through hardships
and decide not to surrender,
that is strength.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

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

I make my own choices.
I decide what I will and will not do.
I am proud of my independence.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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.

The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.
- Flora Whittemore

This life is what you make it.
Not matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes,
it's a universal truth.
But the good part is,
you get to decide how you're going to mess it up.
Girls will be your friends - they'll act like it anyway.
But just remember, some come, some go.
The ones that stay with you through everything -
they're your true best friends.
Don't let go of them.
Also remember, sisters make the best friends in the world.
- Marilyn Monroe

When two people decide to get a divorce,
it isn't a sign that they "don't understand" one another,
but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.
- Helen Rowland

Were it left to me to decide whether we should
have a government without newspapers,
or newspapers without a government,
I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
- Thomas Jefferson

I have decided to stick with love.
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

History is the version of past events
that people have decided to agree upon.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect.
It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.
- Anonymous

I decided that it was not wisdom that
enabled poets to write their poetry,
but a kind of instinct or inspiration,
such as you find in seers and prophets
who deliver all their sublime messages
without knowing in the least what they mean.
- Socrates

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
- West African proverb famously quoted by Theodore Roosevelt

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along,
because once I have persuaded him, he will stick.
If I scare him, he will stay just as long
as he is scared, and then he is gone.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Truth is stranger than fiction,
but that is because Fiction is obliged
to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
- Mark Twain

Have convictions. Be friendly.
Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs.
Work as hard as they do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

It looks like we're up chocolate creek without a Popsicle stick!
- the movie Shrek 2 (2004)

Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
- Henry David Thoreau

We hardly ever realize that we can
cut anything out of our lives,
anytime, in the blink of an eye.
- Carlos Castaneda

You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton

Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit.
Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever,
even if your whole world seems upset.
- Saint Francis de Sales

When we try to pick out anything by itself,
we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
- John Muir

If a warrior is to succeed at anything,
the success must come gently,
with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.
- Carlos Castaneda

You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei

To have done anything just for money
is to have been truly idle.
- Henry David Thoreau

The Four Agreements
1.Be impeccable with your word.
2.Don't take anything personally.
3.Don't make assumptions.
4.Always do your best.
- don Miguel Ruiz

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu

I am an optimist.
It does not seem too much use being anything else.
- Winston Churchill

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything.
And that is by making the other person want to do it.
- Dale Carnegie

Leaders aren't born they are made.
And they are made just like anything else, through hard work.
And that's the price we'll have to pay
to achieve that goal, or any goal.
- Vince Lombardi

The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm
but because of those who look at it without doing anything.
- Albert Einstein

Anyone who has never made a mistake,
has never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein

If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right,
you'll probably never do much of anything.
- Win Borden

Do not wish to be anything but what you are,
and try to be that perfectly.
- St. Francis De Sales

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys
the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist,
and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
- Albert Schweitzer

You can have anything you want in life if you
just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar

To love what you do and feel that it matters,
how on earth could anything be more fun.
- Katherine Graham

Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw

A man can succeed at almost anything
for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
- Charles M. Schwab

There is no short cut to achievement.
Life requires thorough preparation -
veneer isn't worth anything.
- George Washington Carver

If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants,
and to serve them one's self?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing,
we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger,
but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.
- Robert Cushing

You can't do anything about the length of your life,
but you can do something about its width and depth.
- Evan Esar

Learn to do common things uncommonly well;
we must always keep in mind that anything
that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.
- George Washington Carver

Never do anything against conscience
even if the state demands it.
- Albert Einstein

Walking is Zen, sitting is Zen.
Then what will be the quality?
Watchfully alert, joyously unmotivated,
centered, loving, flowing, one walks.
And the walking is sauntering.
Loving, alert, watchful, one sits, unmotivated -
not sitting for anything in particular,
just enjoying how beautiful
just sitting doing nothing is,
how relaxing, how restful.
- Osho

You will never do anything in this world without courage.
It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
- James Allen

When you are in any contest,
you should work as if there were -
to the very last minute - a chance to lose it.
This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous

It is hardly possible to build anything,
if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.
- Lech Walesa

People will do anything, no matter how absurd,
to avoid facing their own souls.
- Carl Jung

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