Once You Decide Quotes

#1. There are so many ways to live, to define what living means for you and you alone. We are so narrow in our thinking, and once you understand that, once you decide to not abide by these artificial constraints, anything is possible and you are so liberated

Gayle Forman

#2. It was the damnedest thing, life. Once you decide exactly how things are going to go, something or someone comes along and messes it all up.

Jennifer Armintrout

#3. There are really only two options - you can feel things, or you can shut down. But, once you decide to feel things, you don't get to pick and choose what you feel.

Jim Palmer

#4. Once you decide to do right, life is easy, there are no distractions.

William Stafford

#5. Once you decide to gut a fish, there's no use waiting till it rots.

Robert Jordan

#6. Once you decide to do something, and you're pretty sure you're right, then you gotta go ahead and do it. Because if you piddle around, somebody else will beat you to it.

Ted Turner

#7. To know that once you decide to look at life outside of the narrow limits of just your world and start to understand that you can make a difference in very simple ways - in volunteering and all the way up to bigger world problems.

Susan Sarandon

#8. Weigh risk carefully, and once you decide a risk is manageable and necessary in the pursuit of your dreams, take it.

Adrian Ballinger

#9. Once you decide to grow out the roses from your heart, and let it spread the roots all over. you should also start to learn to handle the thorns that grow out of their stem.

Akshay Vasu

#10. Confidence is the key to virtually everything. It's just deciding that you're qualified because once you decide you're qualified, everything else becomes very easy.

Eugene Mirman

#11. I was so moved by music that I wanted to create it as well, but once you decide that's what you want to do with your life, to be successful, you have to be business-minded, too.

Lizzo

#12. Once you decide not to worry about that stuff anymore, dating and relationships and love and all that, it's like you're free to get on with real life.

David Nicholls

#13. She was very much familiar with the Confucian saying that you have to dig two graves once you decide to seek vengeance.

J.D. Stonebridge

#14. If you really do love her, don't look away, no matter what happens. No matter what you see, no matter what you learn about her, don't look away. Once you got her in your embrace, don't let go. Once you decide you love someone, that's your responsibility.

Ryohgo Narita

#15. Once you decide to work for yourself, you never go back to work for somebody else.

Alan Sugar

#16. The decide word is so powerful. It's amazing what you can do once you decide to do it.

Lorii Myers

#17. Happiness is attractive. Once you decide to be happy, you attract great things into your life.

Robert Holden

#18. Once you decide that it is the art that is important and not how popular and well received you are, you no longer have an albatross.

Stephen Stills

#19. I'm going to tell you a secret. Our lives are shaped by the future, not by the past. Once you decide how you want your life to be, all you need to do is live into that future.

Wendy Mass

#20. 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

#21. Serving the Lord is not always easy or popular. Folks may laugh at you on your job, mocking and making fun of your faith. But once you decide that there's no turning back, something in your heart rises up and says "no" to the devil and "yes" to the Lord.

T.D. Jakes

#22. Once you decide that mediocrity is unthinkable, your only choices are excellence and quitting.

Nick Murray

#23. Even when I retired, there was part of me that didn't want to retire. But once you decide it's time to move on then you have to stick with it.

John Elway

#24. You could feel things or you could find a way to shut down. But once you were feeling things, you couldn't decide exactly what to feel. That was the trouble with letting them in at all. They made a mess of the place.

Ann Brashares

#25. Writing a record is like dating a few men at once. You take them to the same restaurants to see if they measure up, and at some point you decide who you like best.

Lady Gaga

#26. I never even wanted to be an actress. I studied mass communication and wanted to study law in Newcastle, for which I even got a scholarship. But by then, I had started modelling. So, I took a year off to decide what to do. But once you are used to working, it's difficult to get back to studies.

Esha Gupta

#27. Ever since, I don't have to decide which Starr I have to be with him. He likes both. Well, the parts I've shown him. Some things I can't reveal, like Natasha. Once you've seen how broken someone is it's like seeing them naked - you can't look at them the same anymore. I

Angie Thomas

#28. A large part of choosing your path is figuring out which values will determine your worth. Once that's clear, it's much easier to decide if the work you're doing will increase or decrease your feelings of worth.

Paul Jarvis

#29. If you decide to focus on one thing at a time, instead of trying to solve everything at once, and just do that one thing, then you will feel a sudden decrease in stress.

Gudjon Bergmann

#30. 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

#31. Develop discipline of self so that you do not have to decide and re-decide what you will do when you are confronted with the same temptation time and time again. You need only decide some things once.

Spencer W. Kimball

#32. If you try once or twice to communicate and get pushed back, pretty soon you decide, To hell with it.

Richard Feynman

#33. Once I decide to do something, I can't have people telling me I can't. If there's a roadblock, you jump over it, walk around it, crawl under it.

Kitty Kelley

#34. Mean, if you start a book and a couple of chapters in you decide you just aren't into it that's one thing, but once you reach the halfway point, there's no turning back. You're obligated.

Kim Holden

#35. Decide that you will not try to do everything at once. That is why time is spread out.

Norman Vincent Peale

#36. You don't just decide to have sex because you feel like having sex. You decide to have sex once you realize you're in love with someone and want to express that love physically.

Sarah Mlynowski

#37. Every once in a while you just have to decide to do something very crazy and very right
just to dare yourself to live. I don't mean doing something stupid and destructive
just something fun and good and beautiful.

Regina Doman

#38. Failure is not falling to the ground; it is remaining there once you have fallen and the greatest failure is when you decide not to stand up again.

Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

#39. Once you have the vision and the passion to make it happen, you will achieve your dreams. It is up to you to decide when to make it happen; attitudes guide you to answer that!

Israelmore Ayivor

#40. It was you readers who really came through, proving once again that when the American people decide to "get involved" in a problem, it is best not to let them have any sharp implements.

Dave Barry

#41. You can have many different selection systems, but the bottom line has to be a system that, once the judge takes office that judge will feel that he or she is to decide the case without reference to the popular thing or the popular will of the moment.

Stephen Breyer

#42. Once you commit and decide that there is no turning back, you'll find the strength.

Marta Mrotek

#43. 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

#44. 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

#45. I drove five hours to see you once and I'll do it again and again and again if I have to. Just...I want to be with you. Wherever you decide to go, I'll come find you.

Dahlia Adler

#46. Doubt everything [ ... ]. Doubt everything at least once. What you decide to keep, you'll be able to be confident of. And what you decide to ditch, you will replace with what your instincts tell you is true.

Amy Plum

#47. And the problem is once you get into this campaign business and begin to have a lot of money, then the person on the bench begins to think - what's going to happen if I decide the case this way or that way?

Stephen Breyer

#48. 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

#49. I think that once you open the door and allow people in on a certain aspect, it's very hard to then control how far that ripple effect is. So I think that the person who is known or famous has the ability to decide what they do or don't want to share.

Rosie O'Donnell

#50. Will today be the day you decide once and for all to make your life consistent with the quality of your spirit? Then start by proclaiming, This is what I am. This is what my life is about. And this is what I'm going to do. Nothing will stop me from achieving my destiny. I will not be denied!

Tony Robbins

#51. 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

#52. You don't ever know how happy you are until you remember how sad you once were and vice versa. Nothing is anything until I decide to hold nothing next to something, and declare that I see a difference.

Andrea Seigel

#53. From today onwards, take complete control of your life. Decide, once and for all, to be the master of your fate. Run your own race. Discover your calling and you will start to experience the ecstasy of an inspired life.

Robin S. Sharma

#54. Once you accept your circumstances and decide to take action, you can welcome change. Change is an opportunity to form new habits and become who you are meant to be.

Farshad Asl

#55. If you once cede to the Court the power to decide elections, let alone even the power to halt counting of the votes, then you have ceded it everything.

Renata Adler

#56. I am a great believer in the OHIO principle: Only handle it once. When you read an e-mail, decide whether or not to reply to it, and, if you need to reply, do so right then and there. I have found that about 80 percent of all e-mails, whether internal or external, do not require a response.

Robert Pozen

#57. My friend Mrs. Maugery bought a pamphlet that once belonged to you, too. It is called 'Was There a Burning Bush? A Defense of Moses and the Ten Commandments'. She liked your margin note, "Word of God or crowd control???" Did you ever decide which?

Mary Ann Shaffer

#58. You have to decide who you are, little girl, she told me once. Once you know that, everyone else will too.

Megan Abbott

#59. 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

#60. Once you have mates who know you, right down under the this-and-that you decide people want to see today, then there's no room left for the someday person who'll magic you into being all your finest dreams. You've turned solid:you're the person your mates know, forever.

Tana French