Top 100 Can Decide Quotes
#1. One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that decision, only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine.
Jean-Francois Lyotard
#2. You know, I think there should be a Zach Braff Day. We could have it on December 25th and then people can decide whether they want to celebrate me or Jesus. If you ask me, the choice is pretty obvious.
Zach Braff
#3. Responsibility cannot be assigned; it can only be accepted. If someone tries to give you responsibility, only you can decide if you are responsible or if you aren't.
Kent Beck
#4. You can't change your beliefs as an act of will, in the way you can decide to improve your skills with chainsaw or keyboard.
Daniel C. Dennett
#5. Have faith that God won't send you anything you're incapable of handling. You can decide that the word fear is an acronym for ... False Evidence Appearing Real.
Wayne Dyer
#6. After kids leave the house, they can decide to do whatever they want, but while they're under my roof, they're going to be lawyers or writers or something, something important, anything except actors.
John Leguizamo
#8. Consciousness is the core of humanity. It can be a curse or it can be a cure. Only humanity can decide how to break the curse and be the cure.
Jennifer Ott
#9. It's not quite the Tom Jones show, but yes, I've had undergarments. If I get a bra chucked on stage I'll hold it up so the audience can decide what to think. And I'll usually blame a guy for doing it.
Michael Bolton
#10. Only the individual can decide what level of risk she can tolerate and what level of freedom she's willing to sacrifice for the sake of safety.
Park Dietz
#11. All that destiny garbage. Nobody can decide what happens to you. Nobody but you.
Margaret Stohl
#12. You can decide what kind of magic you practice. Just like you can decide who you are. In the end, it's really the same thing.
Danielle Paige
#13. Only you can decide how your fires will affect you. Will you be sanctified or scarred
Beth Moore
#14. You can awaken each day to obligations you never chose - or you can decide now to choose them.
Robert Breault
#15. You may be amazed that you are still unique and beautiful as your natural self. Only you can decide if this style is for you.
Monica Millner
#16. The value of having numbers - data - is that they aren't subject to someone else's interpretation. They are just the numbers. You can decide what they mean for you.
Emily Oster
#17. Today, you can decide to walk in freedom. You can choose to walk differently. You can walk as a free person, enjoying every step.
Nhat Hanh
#18. We can decide to let our trials crush us, or we can convert them to new forces of good.
Helen Keller
#19. Only you can decide what breaks you, Cursebreaker. Only you.
Sarah J. Maas
#20. We can decide our fate every day, when we love we will be loved.
Ron Baratono
#21. An electron is an electron, but you can decide where to send your electric-bill payment. You can't redirect the electrons, but you can your dollars. The dollars will drive generation choices.
Ralph Cavanagh
#22. There's three things ye can do in any situation, girl," her father had told her once. "Ye can decide to do a thing, ye can decide not to do a thing ... or ye can decide not to decide." That last, her da had never quite come out and said (he hadn't needed to) was the choice of weaklings and fools.
Stephen King
#23. When you have kids, you can choose to make them like you, or become like them, and if you've got something that's going to change every six days or six minutes, you can decide to be as awake and alive and learning as they are.
Jez Butterworth
#24. You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. - Maya Angelou
Brene Brown
#25. I have a lot of creative control, so I can decide what I want to wear, what I want my brand to look like, what I want my songs to sound like, so I don't sound like some fake artist that people can't relate to.
Daya
#26. Politics is not a picture on a wall or a television sitcom that you can decide you don't much care for.
Molly Ivins
#27. Love is pretty much a decision anyway. Just like happiness. You can decide to either love someone or not, be happy or not. The rest is just commitment to the idea.
Caprice Crane
#28. As a leader, you have the choice to determine what you are going to do and how you are going to engage others. You can decide to act compassionately regardless of what the weather is - whether it is cloudy or sunny - or whether things are inspirational or not.
Sakyong Mipham
#29. You can decide at 17 that you want to be a professional player. In Argentina, they start very young. They go to school in the morning and then do polo in the afternoon.
Adolfo Cambiaso
#30. It may sound very strange, but I love the freedom that writing a novel gives me. It is an unhindered experience. If I come after a bad day, I can decide that my protagonist will die on page 100 of my novel in a 350-page story.
Ashwin Sanghi
#31. It's the biggest economic influence in a woman's life whether she can decide when and whether to have children or not.
Gloria Steinem
#32. I need to be nothing for a very long time until I can decide what something I want to be.
Kiersten White
#33. In a network situation, a vice president, while he's shaving, can decide your history.
Phil Donahue
#34. You don't get to pick who you are in this life, but you can decide what you become.
Jodee Blanco
#35. You need to marry the qualitative with the quantitative. It better informs us so we can decide what to do. We can't be afraid of data and analysis. We have to use that lens.
Nathan Shedroff
#36. The goal of our actions is and will remain a sovereign and territorially intact Ukraine that can decide its own future.
Angela Merkel
#37. It is important to remember that a thought is harmless unless we believe them and act on them. As the subject, since thoughts are an object of your awareness, you have the power to challenge every thought. You can decide if you want to make that thought real.
Elizabeth Thornton
#38. 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
#39. you can't control the world; someone will always be there to wrong you. It's your choice to let it go. Only you can decide the woman you want to be." It's
Laura Thalassa
#40. What good is the legal process if people can decide their motives are bigger than the law?
Jodi Picoult
#41. You can decide to refuse to allow people who aim at hating you to achieve their aims.
Israelmore Ayivor
#42. One of the matters that must be addressed is that Rwanda and Uganda have to leave the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We're also supporting processes to ensure that the political dialogue among the Congolese themselves takes place so that the people there can decide their future.
Thabo Mbeki
#43. Get up every day and consider the stage you're on. Only you can decide whether it will be a tragedy, a comedy or a drama.
Maryln Schwartz
#44. We have to make a determination of what the minimum standards are for police, fire and emergency services in all of America's major cities. Once we determine that, then we can decide what the funding is.
Warren Rudman
#45. There is absolutely nothing in what Jesus himself or his early followers taught that suggests you can decide just to enjoy forgiveness at Jesus' expense and have nothing more to do with him.
Dallas Willard
#47. 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
#48. You can keep waiting for somebody else to define you, or give you your place in the world, or you can decide that you're not just somebody's broken puppet anymore. Choose.
David Fury
#49. We can't choose our lives, but we can decide what to do with the joys or griefs we're given.
Paulo Coelho
#50. If you can own property, how are you a slave?" asked Rigg. "Because your owner can move you to one place or another, can break up your marriage, can sell your children to some other owner, can decide how much education you'll receive, and what work you'll do, and what hours you'll keep.
Orson Scott Card
#51. Only you can decide what is most important in your life.
Jim Craig
#52. We don't escape our pasts, you know," Madd said. He sounded defeated. "Never. We can never escape what we are."
"Maybe not. But I think we can escape what other people try to make of us. We can decide our fate for ourselves.
Tali Spencer
#53. Anybody can decide if they have got the money to fight a case if they don't like a particular thing, and they complain to the watch committee, local council or whatever.
Timothy West
#54. I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.
(Popular misquote of "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.")
Maya Angelou
#55. (Thinking while being interrogated by the Germans) You big shots think you can decide on my life, but I have news for you: you can't touch a hair on my head without the will of God my Father, because He is on my side.
Diet Eman
#56. There are many ways to rule, many things required to be un hombre or to be una mujere, for each person can decide for himself. Sometimes you can even be both. Without having to choose one or the other
Mayra Santos-Febres
#57. We always have a choice. Only you can decide what you become.
Seth Adam Smith
#58. To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin ... and I've always known where it will end.
D.J. MacHale
#59. The world sometimes feels like an insane asylum. You can decide whether you want to be an inmate or pick up your visitor's badge. You can be in the world but not engage in the melodrama of it; you can become a spiritual being having a human experience thoroughly and fully.
Deepak Chopra
#60. Look at this thing. It's ruining my life. I'm trying to live a peaceful, meaningful existence, but I feel like I'm sitting on top of a volcano. At any moment this thing can decide to freak, close down, and fight with what's happening.
Michael A. Singer
#61. One of the chief purposes of emotions is to give us values, so we can decide what is important, what is expensive, what is pretty, and what is precious.
Anonymous
#62. At anytime you can decide to live a life that says " I love myself
Renae A. Sauter
#63. There was a willful calm and happiness. I think people can decide to be happy. Maybe that was it.
Robert Reeves
#64. So it is best for you to withdraw into the world of your portents, for there at least you can decide yourself how portentous they are.
Umberto Eco
#65. Perhaps the greatest thing one can discover is that you can decide who you are. You don't have to be whom the Ludlucks made you. You don't even have to be who you were before that. You can choose. We are all creatures of our own devising.
Robin Hobb
#66. You may not control what others do or say, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. Keep adding value to people around you and make your impact unstoppable.
Farshad Asl
#67. I don't think you can decide how famous or not you become.
Rupert Friend
#68. Personal transformation is an internal job.
No one can change you without you first wanting the change for yourself. The transformation starts in your thoughts! Only you can decide to change your thoughts and thus your behavior.
Michelle Word Hollis
#69. 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
#70. Designers can show us a better future, can present us with all kinds of new possibilities so that we can decide: Is this what we want? Before any of that can happen, though, the designer must first commit - by taking what is just a faint glimmer in the mind's eye and giving it shape and life.
Warren Berger
#71. Nobody can decide for himself whether he is going to be a human being. The only question open to him is whether he will be an ignorant undeveloped one or one who has sought to reach the highest point he is capable of attaining.
Robert Maynard Hutchins
#72. you can decide to get eggs from the refrigerator without craving them - and without getting upset if there are none left.
Rick Hanson
#73. Christian Louboutin - his shoes are classic and can be worn for any occasion. I love the feel of Prada shoes and the comfort of Fendi. I like Miu Miu and Nicholas Kirkwood. A shoe can decide how stylish you are.
Shilpa Shetty
#74. 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
#75. In foreign affairs we must make up our minds that, whether we wish it or not, we are a great people and must play a great part in the world. It is not open to us to choose whether we will play that great part or not. We have to play it. All we can decide is whether we shall play it well or ill.
Theodore Roosevelt
#76. It is helpful to know the proper way to behave, so one can decide whether or not to be proper.
Gail Carson Levine
#77. Feeling invisible means you can float. You can decide to travel without permission.
Amy Poehler
#78. The unknown is not what to be afraid of, it's only when the unknown becomes known that one can decide whether to be afraid or not.
Markus Peterson
#79. Aelin can decide what to tell you." "Such a good dog." Rowan
Sarah J. Maas
#80. I am the only one who can decide what will happen to me," Kaitlyn went on very quietly. "No one else. Me. And I've already made my decision. I'm going back to that place and I'm going to try to stop them any way I can. Whether you give me the shard or not is your decision, but I'm going back anyway.
L.J.Smith
#81. She'd been accepted to the one school she'd applied to, early, for no other reason than that she'd loved the oddball essay questions in the application. How such small things can decide one's fate.
Lauren Groff
#82. One minute can decide the outcome of the battle, one hour - the outcome of the campaign, and one day - the fate of the country.
Alexander Suvorov
#83. A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
#84. The woman can't decide whether or not she's a MILTF. Only guys can decide that. And they do.
Tassa Desalada
#85. For some reason, I feel the same way about you that I felt about my kids when they were small - that it wasn't their job to love me, it was my job to love them. You can decide to feel however you want to, but I love you and I will always love you.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#86. Life chucks a bunch of stuff at us, stuff we have no control over, but we can decide how to handle it all. We shape our lives with the choices we make.
Cathy Cassidy
#87. On this earth there are many roads to heaven; and each traveller supposes his own to be the best. But they must all unite in one road at the last. It is only Omniscience that can decide. And it will then be found that no sect is excluded because of its faith ...
Eliza Leslie
#88. Wanting to change your handwriting may be an indication that you are ready, or wanting, to change a whole lot of other things in your life as well. You alone can decide what you wish to change and why.
Rosemary Sassoon
#89. No genuine observer can decide otherwise than that the homes of a nation are the bulwarks of personal and national safety and thrift.
J.G. Holland
#90. The Chinese are more successful [in building infrastructure] because in their country, only three people make the decision ... In a country where only three people make the decision, they can decide where to put their rail line, get the money, and do it. We don't do it that way in America.
Ray LaHood
#91. I, alone, can decide what my relationship with Christ becomes.
Amy E. Tobin
#92. Science is not there for you to cherry pick ... You can decide whether or not to believe in it but that doesn't change the reality of an emergent scientific truth.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#93. The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide, and to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
Alan Kay
#95. The Voice
There is a voice inside of you
That whispers all day long,
"I feel this is right for me,
I know that this is wrong."
No teacher, preacher, parent, friend
Or wise man can decide
What's right for you
just listen to
The voice that speaks inside.
Shel Silverstein
#96. I can tell you, Jay, nothing that happens in this life is worth killing yourself over. Time passes, and you can decide to change your future. You don't let what some assholes say or do, direct you. In this life, it only matters what you do with it.
Nicole Reed
#97. We might not get to choose who we're born as or where we come from, but only you can decide what becomes of you.
Reilyn J. Hardy
#98. Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy.
Felix Frankfurter
#99. Happiness is a decision, not an experience. You can decide to be happy without what you thought you needed in order to be happy, and you will be. Your experience is the result of your decision, not the cause of it.
Neale Donald Walsch
#100. You take souls for vegetables ... The gardener can decide what will become of his carrots but no one can choose the good of others for them.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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