Top 100 Decide Yourself Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. If you are a superstar, or whatever you want to call yourself, a person who's had outrageous success, and you decide to go indie and tell the record companies to screw themselves? That takes a certain amount of courage. And bullheadedness, really.
Daryl Hall
#4. More you learn about yourself, more able you become to decide the better options for you, more aware you become of your inner infinite resources.
Deepak Burfiwala
#5. Don't deceive yourself. Everyone is guilty of something, and even the innocent can be a threat. Perhaps it takes small crimes to prevent bigger ones, Colonel West, but it's up to bigger men than us to decide.
Joe Abercrombie
#6. When you're stuck, and sure you've written absolutely garbage, force yourself to finish and then decide to fix or scrap it - or you will never know if you can.
Jodi Picoult
#7. 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
#8. IT'S NICE WHEN YOU DECIDE TO LIKE SOMEONE
AND, WITHOUT DECLARING YOURSELF,
DO WHAT'S POSSIBLE
TO FURTHER HIS HAPPINESS.
THIS CAN TAKE THE FORM OF GIFTS,
LOVELY FOOD, PUBLICITY, OR
ADVANCED WARNING.
Jenny Holzer
#9. Every day, you reinvent yourself. You're always in motion. But you decide every day: forward or backward.
James Altucher
#10. 'I need milk' and 'I need to decide whether to buy this company' both tie up space in psychic RAM. The solution is simple. Write it down. Look at it. Do it or say to yourself 'not now'.
David Allen
#11. Your entire life changes the day that you decide you will no longer accept mediocrity for yourself.
Hal Elrod
#12. You know, I've sung a lot of emotional songs in my life, but when you're writing it yourself, it's very difficult to decide what to reveal.
Diana Krall
#13. In the movie, you have to decide as an actor how you are going to give a character presence. You can't really move, walk, and talk like yourself. This creates something so you have to find something "other".
Mark Strong
#15. The stuff of life never ends. That is life. You will never clear your plate so you can finally allow yourself to get to the good stuff. So you have to decide. What do you want to accomplish in this life?
Brigid Schulte
#16. Once people decide they want you to do something, they don't really care what your qualifications are. However you describe yourself becomes proof that you're the ideal candidate. This is true in journalism, and in life.
Chuck Klosterman
#17. So you must simply pay attention, trust yourself, and decide.
Tamar Adler
#18. You must ask yourself this: Will you decide when love's going to work and when it isn't? You have been pronouncing too much and feeling too little.
David Levithan
#19. You need to decide what you want for yourself. You want to go home? There's a price. You want control over your life? There's a price. You want the freedom to say no? There's a price. There's always a price.
Patrick Rothfuss
#20. Stop, Gina. One thing you should already know about me is that I'll never allow you to speak negatively about yourself. You're a beautiful, intelligent, woman and if there is one gift I hope to give you, even if you decide not to stay, it's the ability to see yourself as you truly are.
Michelle Hughes
#21. You don't need fancy things to feel good. You can hug a puppy. You can buy a can of paint and surround yourself with color. You can plant a flower and watch it grow. You can decide to trust people - the right people. You can decide to start over and let other people start over too -Sugar Mae Cole
Joan Bauer
#22. How are your eyes?" she asked.
"Well, I've been told they're dreamy, but I'll let you decide for yourself.
Marissa Meyer
#23. If you take responsibility and blame yourself, you have the power to change things. But if you put responsibility on someone else, then you are giving them the power to decide your fate.
Deja King
#24. There are moments of frustration in life. You must build good relations to support you in these moments. You must also learn to encourage yourself and decide to stay determined in life.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#25. Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may.
Mark Twain
#26. In money, and in life, you are very often your own worst enemy. You promise yourself you're going to diet, then eat not one or two French fries but a whole plate. You decide to really commit to saving for retirement, only to wind up with a new pair of shoes in your closet.
Jean Chatzky
#27. I think that when you decide to dedicate yourself to creative endeavors and surround yourself with people who are creative, you very quickly learn how hard it is to survive doing those kinds of things, not to mention make a living at them.
Oscar Isaac
#28. 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
#29. Your past isn't there to decide who you are; it's there to guide you to a better version of yourself.
Toni Sorenson
#30. We achieve everything by our efforts alone. Our fate is not decided by an almighty God. We decide our own fate by our actions. You have to gain mystery over yourself. It is not a matter of sitting back and accepting.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#31. He and Onno had once come to the conclusion that you had to decide for yourself whether after your death you wanted to return to your father, then you must go into fire, because that was spirit, but your mother was of course the earth, the body.
Harry Mulisch
#32. I can't do it. It would be like, say, trying to fall in love with somebody, or trying to convince yourself that your favorite food is pancakes. You don't decide those things, they just happen to you. If God is real, He needs to happen to me.
Donald Miller
#33. If you decide to help someone
And you expect something in return
Don't fool yourself...
That's "business", not KINDNESS.
Jose N. Harris
#34. With yourself, I think you have to decide the kind of person that you really want to be, and for me, it's just a sweet girl.
Miley Cyrus
#35. Sometimes the way to do what you hope to do will be clear cut, and sometimes it will be almost impossible to decide whether or not you are doing the correct thing, because you'll have to balance your goals and hopes with feeding yourself, paying debts, finding work, settling for what you can get.
Neil Gaiman
#36. You're going to die. You're going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we're just going to be gone. The world's going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself.
Bob Dylan
#37. You tell yourself that you aren't something or that you can't be something, and you know what? It will become true. You have to decide who you are and what you can do and then go after what you want. Because believe me, no one is going to give it to you.
Elizabeth Scott
#38. 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
#39. Can you predict the future with absolute certainty? Your answer must be no. You have two options: You can either decide to accept yourself as an imperfect human being with limited knowledge and realize that you will at times make mistakes, or you can hate yourself for it.
David D. Burns
#40. As soon as I walk out that door, you're gonna decide you want me back. You might even tell yourself that you're in love with me. But you're not. You never will be.
Lauren Conrad
#42. 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
#43. To choose who to love, is a decision no one else can help you with -- you have to decide for yourself.
Auliq Ice
#44. Dedicate yourself to Love. Decide to let Love be your intention, your purpose, and your point. And then let Love inspire you, support you and guide you in every other dedication you make thereafter.
Robert Holden
#45. Decide for yourself what kind of works you want to create ... facts, essays, poems - do you want to speak or to sing?
Ernst Haas
#46. One needs to be on guard against expecting external powers to decide when you can take yourself seriously as an artist. It can be a long wait - and lead to endless appetite.
Alison Hawthorne Deming
#47. If you do ever decide to go on testosterone, build yourself into a good man. The last thing the world needs is another misogynist prick.
Ivan E. Coyote
#48. Just promise me, Mitch, whenever you decide to make the decision, you make it for you. And if you can't make the decision yourself, then you call me. Any time. Any place. I'll be there. No matter what. And we'll make it together. You think you can handle that?
River Savage
#49. Today, decide not to speak negatively about yourself. When you criticize yourself, you are criticizing God's very own creation.
Joel Osteen
#50. There will always be those who want to tell you who you are based on your name or the blood in your veins. Do not let other people decide who you are. Decide for yourself.
Cassandra Clare
#51. Kanye is going to have to decide early whether or not he's a Baby Bjorn guy, because the minute you put on that Baby Bjorn, there's no turning back. It's like buying a minivan. You lose a little piece of yourself when you get that Baby Bjorn.
Willie Geist
#52. Once you decide to work for yourself, you never go back to work for somebody else.
Alan Sugar
#53. But you can't get away from yourself. You can't decide not to see yourself anymore. You can't decide to turn off the noise in your head.
Jay Asher
#54. Then, things get hard, because once you know magic exists, you have to decide whether to be the bystander, or the magician ... and we were all born to be magicians.
Dianna Hardy
#55. Decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way you live.
Gianni Versace
#56. Give yourself fully to your endeavors. Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price of a worthy goal. The trials you encounter will introduce you to your strengths.
Epictetus
#57. I leave you free to be yourself: to think your thoughts, indulge your tastes, follow your inclinations, behave in ways that you decide are to your liking.
Anthony De Mello
#58. You are never freer than in that moment when you decide to expose yourself to sniper fire.
James Nachtwey
#59. That's something you'll have to decide for yourself.. I think you have a right to live however you want. Whether you're fifteen or fifty-one, what does it matter? But unfortunately society doesn't agree.
~Oshima, page 198
Haruki Murakami
#60. It's not your business to decide if a woman you love should, or should not, marry you. It's her business. Tell her all about yourself and leave the decision to her. God knows it's trouble enough having to make one's own decisions in life without having to make other people's too.
Elizabeth Goudge
#61. Remember, you are constantly in the act of creating yourself. You are in every moment deciding who and what you are. You decide this largely through the choices you make regarding who and what you feel passionate about.
Neale Donald Walsch
#62. Everything starts with yourself, with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life. I tell kids that it's a cruel world, and that the world will bend them either left or right, and it's up to them to decide which way to bend.
Tony Dorsett
#63. Honestly," continued Isaiah, watching Christian, "I can't decide which I want more: to kill you or have you join us. Either option offers its own amusements."
"Don't you ever get tired of hearing yourself talk?" asked Christian.
Richelle Mead
#64. I think every person should be able to enjoy life. Try to decide what you most enjoy doing, and then look around to see if there is a job for which you could prepare yourself that would enable you to continue having this sort of joy.
Linus Pauling
#65. Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.
Salman Rushdie
#66. Sometimes you want something so badly, you get caught up; you lose yourself in that hunger. But then, once it is gone, you have a chance to reassess -to decide what it is you're truly after. Half of the time, it's not what you originally thought it would be.
Jenna Moreci
#67. Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.
Coco Chanel
#68. You just need that opening, that moment, when you finally decide to give yourself permission to change.
Tosca Reno
#69. When you read a novel, it seems that everything is clear, trite and understandable. But when you yourself fall in love, you understand that nobody knows anything and everyone must decide for themselves.
Sarah Ruhl
#70. Decide what you want to be ...
Pay the Price ...
And be what you want to be.
John Andreas Widtsoe
#71. Mass Effect 3 is all about answering all the biggest questions in the
lore, learning about the mysteries and the Protheans and the Reapers,
being able to decide for yourself how all of these things come to an
end.
Casey Hudson
#72. War is when the government tells you who the bad guy is.
Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.
Benjamin Franklin
#73. Never make choices simply because someone told you what is right. Know yourself, know your situation, know God for yourself, and decide what is right for your life.
Dianna Anderson
#74. 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
#75. There is no correct path. We pave our own roads. Don't be afraid to find your own way.
... I hate to see people hung up on "what they're supposed to do". Decide for yourself. There is no other way
Alex Gaskarth
#76. Even though you would like to be able to decide for yourself how offended to be, or whether to be offended at all, you must nevertheless be very offended.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#77. Often wrong, but never in doubt. Once you decide what you need to do and how to go about it, you can't afford to second-guess yourself. You just do it." The
Ilona Andrews
#78. I think you can decide how much of yourself you're willing to make public.
Rupert Friend
#79. Trying too hard will detach you from yourself. Take sometime out, and let time decide for you!
Somya Kedia
#80. The great thing about falling apart, is that you get to decide how to put yourself back together. Make good choices.
Stacie Hammond
#81. You're so worried about what everybody else thinks you can't decide what you want for yourself.
Tracy Brogan
#82. Decide what you want. Declare it to the world. See yourself winning. And remember that if you are persistent as well as patient, you can get whatever you seek.
Misty Copeland
#83. The purpose of a relationship is to decide what part of yourself you'd like to see 'show up', not what part of another you can capture and hold.
Neale Donald Walsch
#84. ... The use of your gift for good is your responsibility. You must decide for yourself.
Thomas Sweeney
#85. It was weird that most people knew me as someone let go from 'SNL.' I had the best time there, and in retrospect, it was the perfect amount of time. The only thing that matters is what you do with yourself in that moment after. If you decide, 'I'm the girl who was fired from 'SNL,' you're just that.
Michaela Watkins
#86. You have two choices. you can keep running and hiding and blaming the world for your problems, or you can stand up for yourself and decide to be somebody important.
Sidney Sheldon
#87. Decide then as you set your jaw and clench your teeth that you will get rid of your boy. Promise yourself this. You will get rid of your boy as soon as the cocaine and money run out. Promise yourself. Try to remember the word. Promise. Swear.
Amanda Boyden
#88. And don't kid yourself; when you don't decide, that's a decision.
Anh Do
#89. If you decide that you cannot beat a temptation, what you are really doing is giving yourself permission to be irresponsible.
Gary Zukav
#90. Guilt is a poisonous illusion. Many languages don't even have a word for guilt. Sure, we all feel it. But we also get to decide if we're going to let guilt bring us down or not. Acknowledge the feelings, and then give yourself permission to let them go.
Kris Carr
#91. All great choices are made with great risks. You must decide for yourself if the consequences are worth the action you are willing to take.
Cathlin Shahriary
#92. 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
#93. Whatever vocation you decide on, track down the best people in the world at doing it and surround yourself with them.
Scott Weiss
#94. If you truly want to change, then decide today that you will not view yourself as a victim, you not allow yourself to be treated as a victim and you will not surround yourself with people who view themselves as victims.
Charles F. Glassman
#95. Be humble and set the balls of your dreams rolling till God himself decides what next! As for "pride", allow it to go as a lone ranger!
Israelmore Ayivor
#96. There comes a time when you just have to be willing to decide what is more important to you and leave behind the things that stand in your way or hold you back from being yourself.
Heather Linn
#97. It isn't other people who decide if you feel alone, it's yourself. Only I didn't know that yet.
Kai Meyer
#98. Make a better life for yourself and decide today that you will only accept perceptions that are authentic to you and which support your positive growth.
Donnalynn Civello
#99. That's good. You see, boxing and writing are very similar. You get in the guard position, you decide to throw yourself into battle, you lift your fists, and you hurl yourself at your opponent. A book is more or less the same. A book is a battle.
Joel Dicker
#100. Your life will always be filled with challenges. It's best to admit this to yourself and decide to be happy anyway.
Brian Dyson
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