Decided Quotes

Hate is too great a burden to bear.

Coretta Scott King

Hater, Famous Love, Inspirational Love

"Understanding Cultural Diversity in Today's Complex World‎" by Leo Parvis, (p. 54), 2006.

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If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.48, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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

Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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People often avoid making decisions out of fear of making a mistake. Actually the failure to make decisions is one of life's biggest mistakes.

Noah Weinberg

Inspirational, Life, Perseverance

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There are no happier people on this planet than those who decide that they want something, define what they want, get hold of the feeling of it even before its manifestation and then joyously watch the unfolding as, piece by piece by piece, it begins to unfold. That's the feeling of your hands in the clay.

Esther Hicks

Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inspirational, Confidence, Wisdom

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I decided very early on that it took too much of my energy to pretend to be someone else. People will make up their minds about me whatever I do or say, but at least I know I am being true to myself.

Drew Barrymore

People, Imperfection, Mind

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In life when we feel we have reached a limit, that is when the true battle begins. Just when you despair and think it is impossible to go any further, will you become apathetic, or will you say it's not over and stand up with an unyielding spirit? The battle is decided by this single determination.

Daisaku Ikeda

Determination, Thinking, Despair

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That's when we decided to stop in '66. Everyone thought we toured for years, you know, but we didn't. I joined in '62, and we'd finished touring in '66 to go into the studio where we could hear each other... and create any fantasy that came out of anybody's brain.

Ringo Starr

Years, Brain, Fantasy

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If you'd bothered to ask me, Clark, if you'd bothered to consult me just once about this so-called fun outing of ours, I could have told you. I hate horses, and horse racing. Always have. But you didn't bother to ask me. You decided what you thought you'd like me to do, and you went ahead and did it. You did what everyone else does. You decided for me.

Jojo Moyes

Horse, Fun, Hate

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Love is not a good thing, I've decided. It just makes you afraid you'll lose what you love, and then, because your fear makes a space for that to happen, it does. What's the point?

Helen Humphreys

Love Is, Space, Doe

Helen Humphreys (2006). “Wild Dogs: A Novel”, p.103, W. W. Norton & Company

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People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures.

F. Matthias Alexander

Inspirational, Life, Future

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Making a true decision means committing to achieving a result, and then cutting yourself off from any other possibility.

Tony Robbins

Leadership, Mean, Commitment

Twitter post from Dec 21, 2015

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Focus is a matter of deciding what things you're not going to do.

John Carmack

Inspirational, Focus, Matter

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The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own.

Albert Ellis

Happiness, Responsibility, Destiny

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If you can’t run, walk; if you can’t walk, crawl, but keep moving forward!

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Perseverance, Determination, Kings

"When King made history at UChicago" by Susie Allen and Michael Drapa, www.uchicago.edu. January 9, 2012.

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Ever since I discovered that my god given male member was going to give me no peace, I decided to give it no rest in return.

Christopher Hitchens

Giving, Males, Return

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Once I decided to write, to be published, I knew it would happen.

Augusten Burroughs

Writing, Happens

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When old men decided to barter young men for pride and profit, the transaction was called war.

Len Deighton

War, Pride, Men

"Eleven Declarations of War". Book by Len Deighton, 1971.

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Philosophy is the sum total of all that you know and what you decide is valuable.

Jim Rohn

Life, Wise, Philosophy

FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Dec 25, 2016

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I haven't slept in days. And me and my latest girl agreed to go our separate ways.

Drake

Love, Relationship, Moving On

Song: Unforgettable, Album: Thank Me Later, 2010

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The fashion industry is no more able to preserve a style that men and women have decided to abandon than to introduce one they do not choose to accept.

Alison Lurie

Fashion, Men, Style

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Bitterblue had never seen a man naked, and she was curious. She decided the universe owed her a few minutes, just a few, to satisfy her curiosity. So she went to him and knelt, which shut him up.

Kristin Cashore

Men, Curiosity, Naked

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