Quotes About Painful Decisions

#1. Waiting hurts. Forgetting hurts. But not knowing which decision to take can sometimes be the most painful ...

Jose N. Harris

#2. I call that mind free which protects itself against the usurpations of society, and which does not cower to human opinion: Which refuses to be the slave or tool of the many or of the few, and guards its empire over itself as nobler than the empire of the world.

William Ellery Channing

#3. When I get into a bad mood, I do sports and then everything's OK. And then I go and make decisions, however painful they may be.

Dmitry Medvedev

#4. But when you're in second grade, you don't yet know the meaning of impossible

Adina Rishe Gewirtz

#5. To love light, you have to love dark. I'm not trying to be profound, I know you'll understand. I don't mean that you have to hate to love, or that you have to die to live.
I mean that sometimes, you turn out the lights just to turn them back on.

Alaya Dawn Johnson

#6. Intuition is neither the ability to engage prophecy
nor a means of avoiding financial loss or painful relationships.
It is actually the ability to use energy data
to make decisions in the immediate moment.

Caroline Myss

#7. I shall not wholly die and a great part of me will escape the grave

Horace

#8. I have never seen an angel. Show me an angel, and I'll paint one.

Gustave Courbet

#9. It's painful and it's messy. But sometimes you just have to make the break and start again.

Tony Parsons

#10. As Jews, we are commanded to give tzedakah - an act of justice, not charity - because it is the righteous thing to do.

Lynn Schusterman

#11. No one was ever the better for advice: in general, what we called giving advice was properly taking an occasion to show our own wisdom at another's expense; and to receive advice was little better than tamely to another the occasion of raising himself a character from our defects.

Anthony Ashley Cooper

#12. Business is the marketplace of ideas.

Mark Cuban

#13. ideas are the new currency

Claudia Azula Altucher

#14. I was obliged to take tough, painful and bold decisions to ensure a manageable tomorrow.

Nicos Anastasiades

#15. Poqerty is the worst form of violence

Mahatma Gandhi

#16. That had always been my way, though. Making decisions was the painful part for me, the part I agonized over. But once the decision was made, I just followed through - relieved that the choice was made.

Stephenie Meyer

#17. I must never equate the degree of pain as evidencing the incorrectness of a decision, for if I do I will default on some of the most critical decisions I should have ever made.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#18. I stopped going to mass, and boy, it was painful for me, and it was certainly painful for my family, but I just couldn't ratify their behavior and their decisions anymore by showing up on Sundays.

Anna Quindlen

#19. Practicing zazen is like gradually (or maybe not so gradually) getting your sight back.

Brad Warner

#20. If Abe Lincoln took part in the Republican debates, he would look out of place with his intelligence, compassion and gaping head wound.

Dana Gould

#21. I wish the choice I have to make today was so simple. I realise I have the choice to believe in two terrible things. Either Damian is a murderer or Beckett arrested an innocent man.
Just thinking about it is making my head hurt.
Well then forget your head, listen to your heart.

Richard Castle