Top 100 We Decide Quotes
#1. Molecule Trustees: The sun and all of us are molecule trustees, administering the molecules entrusted to us until they are passed on. Like any trustee, we do not own the property, nor do we decide who will receive what we stewarded. It might be somebody grumpy like Xanthippe.
Amy Leach
#2. In Parliament we debate on and we decide the laws that are going to govern the country.
Diane Abbott
#3. I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.
Tony Robbins
#4. In the universities, we teach you what we decide you need to know. And the employers find out when they hire people that students didn't learn what we needed them to learn. Online learning offerings, like the University of Phoenix, have relationships with employers and teach what you need to know.
Clayton M Christensen
#5. We confidently say that it's not worth trying to reach any conclusions merely because we decide to stop halfway along the path that would lead us straight to them.
Jose Saramago
#6. Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law. Understand that we are you. Understand that if we decide to have sex whether safe, safer, or unsafe, it is our decision and you have no rights in our lovemaking.
Derek Jarman
#7. All humans realize they are loved when witnessing the dawn; early morning is the triumph of good over evil. Absolved by light we decide to go on.
Rufus Wainwright
#8. I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned.
Rita Dove
#9. Every life, no matter how isolated, touches hundred of others. It's up to us to decide if those micro connections are positive or negative. But whichever we decide, it does impact the ones we deal with.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#10. in an individual sense, we are to be continual worshipers and praisers. Worship and praise is not something we decide to do for a few minutes a day or once a week, but it is who we are. Our attitude should always be that of a worshiper.
Ronald Sawka
#11. Whatever we decide we don't want in life (whether it's dating, houses, neighborhoods, jobs, partners, or dogs), the fates usually intervene to open our eyes and prove us wrong.
Danielle Steel
#12. When we decide to do something, we do it quickly.
Carlos Slim
#13. Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because we are driven into a corner and must say something.
Frank Crane
#14. Instead of hoping that some day the boys' club will open its doors, we can form our own clubs, define 'worthy' our own way, and celebrate the books and voices that we decide deserve celebration.
Jennifer Weiner
#15. The questions we ask ourselves, in our head, determine where we focus, how we think, how we feel, and what we decide and do.
Maddy Malhotra
#16. When we decide to take back our own power, we discover that the true solver of problems is intuition, not reason.
Deepak Chopra
#17. Slavery is a sin when whites were put to the yoke, but not the African. All men are created equal, unless we decide you are not a man.
Colson Whitehead
#18. Leah taught me that the greatest secret of life is that we find exactly what we're looking for. In spite of what happens to us, ultimately we decide whether our lives are good or bad, ugly or beautiful.
Richard Paul Evans
#19. If loving other people is a bit of heaven then certainly isolation is a bit of hell, and to that degree, here on earth, we decide in which state we would like to live.
Donald Miller
#20. We decide where the time goes. There's so much freedom in that, and so much responsibility.
Shauna Niequist
#21. We determine how much influence we'll have, when we decide how available we'll be.
Bob Goff
#22. We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.
Stephen Covey
#23. We definitely have our finger on the pulse. You have to keep up. We decide what to watch by what's funny.
Shawn Wayans
#24. I dont think any kind of love is without some kind of hurt along the way. It's how we get to know each other better, how we decide what's for real ... what's the eternal stuff, what is going to push us closer together and seal the bond between us.
Rachel Higginson
#25. We decide based on how people look; we decide based on how people sound; we decide based on how people are dressed. We decide based on their passion.
Frank Luntz
#26. I believe we decide our own fate. No one has the right to dictate who we are or what we become.
Kathryn Purdie
#27. Just because your mind tells you that something is awful or evil or unplanned or otherwise negative doesn't mean you have to agree. Just because other people say that something is hopeless or crazy or broken to pieces doesn't mean it is. We decide what story to tell ourselves.
Ryan Holiday
#28. When we decide to embark in the service of God, great things begin to happen in our life and the lives of people around us. We learn of Him. We come unto Him.
Neill F. Marriott
#29. There are moments in life that define us, set us on a new course that we had never even dreamed of. Sometimes those moments begin when an unexpected person finds their voice. Sometimes it begins when we decide to listen." (Chapter 1 of Without a Voice)
Chris Pepple
#30. Every time we decide to use our power to influence others, particularly if we're gleeful and hasty, we damage the relationship. We move from enjoying a healthy partnership based on trust and mutual respect to establishing a police state that requires constant monitoring.
Kerry Patterson
#31. I'm not going to let you get away from me until we decide if we're right for each other.
Dorothy Garlock
#32. The more I worked on 'Half Brother,' the more it seemed to me the story was really about love in all its possible forms - how and why we decide to bestow it, or withdraw it; how we decide what is more worthy of being loved, and what is less. We are masters of conditional love.
Kenneth Oppel
#33. We assume that we have free will and that we make decisions, but we don't. Neurons do. We decide that this sum total driving us is a decision we have made for ourselves. But it is not.
Rodolfo Llinas
#34. We say something every morning when we decide how to dress.
Alison Lurie
#35. Unhappiness comes when we feel helpless. Hope comes the minute we decide we are not.
Toni Sorenson
#36. Convinced that we're living the whole time that we're dying.
We decide to go out walking the whole time that you're talking.
Convinced that you're living whole time that I'm dying.
Tegan Quin
#37. We all have light and dark inside us, what matters is the path we decide to take.
Stephenie Meyer
#38. Life is always trying to love us, but we need to be open if we are to see it. Fear shows us one world; and love shows us another world. We decide which world is real. And we decide which world we want to live in.
Louise Hay
#39. When we have the ability to save someone's life, and we decide they aren't worthy of being saved - isn't that playing God as well?
Diana Peterfreund
#40. 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
#41. What we decide does not mean will always happen, so be content with what you are
Sadashivan Nair
#42. We'll look at a bunch of deals that are being offered to us, and we decide where to go and continue on I guess. It's not too early to start considering our options with other labels.
Josh Silver
#43. I get up around 6:30. I work from about 8:00 to 1:00, take a break for lunch, work again until about 5:00, and then go for a long walk and have dinner. Then, if my wife and I have no previous plans, we decide what to do for the evening.
Chaim Potok
#44. Jesus does not allow us to be neutral about Him. Jesus demands that we decide about Him.
Billy Graham
#45. What we decide to do in the face of adversity is perhaps the truest measure of character.
Ian Usher
#46. Perhaps we can bring the day when children will learn from their earliest days that being fully man and fully woman means to give one's life to the liberation of the brother [and sister] who suffers. It is up to each one of us. It won't happen unless we decide to use our lives to show the way.
Cesar Chavez
#47. The giant stop in the walk of faith is the one we take when we decide God no longer is a part of our life.
Beth Moore
#48. We believe that we decide. We do make decisions. But the deeper decisions come from another part of our being that we're not particularly aware of yet.
Frederick Lenz
#49. The road of life is filled with sunshine and clouds, black and white, triumphs and tragedies. As we continue down the road, we decide which things we bring with us, and which we leave in the rear-view mirror.
Julie-Anne
#50. Sometimes I feel weird about time. Sometimes I feel that it doesn't go in the order we perceive it. There are ... repetitions that maybe we decide not to notice because it is simpler. I like to pick up on those moments.
Helen Oyeyemi
#52. The course of our lives is determined by how we react
what we decide and what we do
at the darkest of times. The nature of that response determines a person's true worth and greatness.
Daisaku Ikeda
#53. Get up in the morning and we decide to be either bitter about the past or happy
Carolyn Brown
#54. Concern for Others Loophole: We tell ourselves that we're acting out of consideration for others and making generous, unselfish decisions. Or we decide we must do something in order to fit into a social situation.
Gretchen Rubin
#55. We all see a lot when we decide to truly look.
L. H. Cosway
#56. We must choose this, if we have the debt to pay. Murder in one life, and be murdered in the next. Rape in one, be raped in another. We decide if we pay now or later; balancing all that is in the great wheel of life.
Don Bradley
#57. Sometimes in life we can't choose the path we walk, the path we travel on, but we can choose how we decide to walk our path in life.
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#58. Unless we decide to reduce greenhouse gas emissions within just a few years from now, our destinies will already be chosen and our path towards hell unalterable as the carbon cycle feedbacks ... kick in one after another.
Mark Lynas
#59. We will wait to see if it is a doozy before we decide how to cover it, and what it all means.
Gwen Ifill
#60. Christmas Eve is my favorite ... I think the anticipation is more fun than anything else. I kind of lost that. The idea that something - food, traditions, an arbitrary date on the calendar - can be special because we decide it should be. We make it special. Not just for ourselves, but for others.
Kiersten White
#61. It's right to say that people fall in love. We don't glide, slip, or stumble into it. Instead we tumble head first from the moment we decide to step off the edge of a cliff with someone and see whether we'll fly together. Love might be irrational, but we make the choice to risk everything.
Martin Pistorius
#62. Hope is only an extension of time granted to us until we decide to give up.
Michael Mintz
#63. We are made up of nothing. There is no self. We are whatever we decide we are.
Frederick Lenz
#64. Our flesh takes over when we decide to be self-centered instead of self-sacrificing. Then there is Satan. God
Stormie O'martian
#65. We are not the person other people wish we were. We are who we decide to be.
Paulo Coelho
#66. Life begins when we decide it's going to begin for us.
Shahrukh Khan
#67. It is only when we decide that 'ordinary' is an insult, that we become the exquisite miracles we were born to be.
Tyler Knott Gregson
#68. The bad thing is that most people don't decide to react before experiencing pain, because options still exist. Only when life deprives us of options do we decide to conquer those unimaginable things.
Sasha Tenodi
#69. If we don't think about our death until we die, how can we decide how we want to live?
Jennifer Ryan
#70. It's the way we respond to such gifts that is up to us. We decide if our past hurts and pains are going to overshadow what is occurring right this moment.
Lorena Bathey
#71. There is no ocean big enough to protect us from the Lord's judgment when we decide to hammer our plowshares into swords and our pruning hooks into spears, in contempt of the will and the grace of God.
Marilynne Robinson
#72. One day after many, many lifetimes, we get wise. We decide that the fun in life is to give.
Frederick Lenz
#73. The spiritual meaning of every situation [is] not what happens to us, but what we do with what happens to us and who we decide to become because of what happens to us. The only real failure is the failure to grow from what we go through.
Marianne Williamson
#74. The time we decide humans are beyond, is the time we lose our humanity.
Nicholas Grant
#76. they knew what we're doing for them, they'd kiss our feet. But mentally they are closer to the crocodile and the hippopotamus than to you or me. That's why we decide what is good for them and have them sign those contracts.
Mario Vargas-Llosa
#77. Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have.
Richard S. Salant
#78. We interact with others and we decide who we are. Are we reclusive? Are we outgoing? Are we successful? Are we going to be a failure? We cast a role for ourselves and we step into it.
Frederick Lenz
#79. The moment we decide to throw more energy into fighting for our mate than with him, the crack of a fist on the enemy's jaw splits the ears of angels.
Beth Moore
#80. Each and every one of us holds the amazing power to modify our life at any time we decide to do so.
J. Michael Bailey
#81. The question that arises as we use all these adjectives and adverbs to describe our physicians as we approach a Supreme Court nominee is where are we in America when we decide that it's legal to kill our unborn children?
Tom Coburn
#82. We decide to start with the best-known sight of all, the one that, more than any other, exemplifies what the Big Apple is all about: the Islip Garbage Barge.
Dave Barry
#83. The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first.
Blaise Pascal
#84. Commitment to a plan or thought carries with it a force that can influence the unconscious mind and bring about the desired effect. In other words, once we decide to have something, the mind unconsciously begins to create the reality necessary to bring to pass what we desire.
Richard Paul Evans
#85. I just want to be clear before we decide to do this together: I'm gay. My music is gay. My show is gay. And I love that it's gay. And I love my gay fans, and they're all going to be coming to our show. And it's going to remain gay.
Lady Gaga
#86. Little by little people are understanding that we need to change, but whatever we decide to do in next 10 to 15 years will decide the future of biodiversity on Earth.
Anthony D. Barnosky
#87. Our creative dreams are subject to grudge-holding when we decide that other people somehow have made their dreams real and we have not.
SARK
#88. I think there's a reason that horror appeals to teens. There's a lot of useful lessons to take away from reading horror. We get to be scared in the comfort and safety of our own homes. We can put the book down if we get too scared, and no one will ever know if we decide not to pick it up again.
Holly Black
#89. Love is only a word, until we decide to let it possess us with all its force.
Love is only a word, until someone arrives to give it meaning.
Don't give up. Remember, it's always the last key on the key ring that opens the door.
Paulo Coelho
#90. I think by shattering it we can create a new form, a new way to look at what is valuable - how we decide what is valuable.
Ai Weiwei
#91. Only ideas keep ideas flowing. When we close our minds to what is new, simply because we decide not to bother with it, we close our minds to our responsibility to ourselves - and to others - to keep on growing.
Joan D. Chittister
#92. God leaves to our conscience the choice of the road we decide to follow, and the liberty of yielding to one or another of the opposing influences that act upon us.
Allan Kardec
#93. English poetry begins whenever we decide to say the modern English language begins, and it extends as far as we decide to say that the English language extends.
James Fenton
#94. There's a common saying that everybody deep at heart loves their mother, except sometimes we decide our actual mothers don't measure up. And so we look for a replacement.
Peter Sagal
#95. Time is powerless. An instant could be enough for us and eternity could be too short. We, and only we, decide what time is for us.
Rom Amor
#96. Are we Darwinists - where we live and let live? Or are we nurturing as a society? There has to be a standard of living that we decide to support.
Mario Batali
#97. THE GIANT STEP IN THE WALK OF FAITH IS THE ONE WE TAKE WHEN WE DECIDE GOD NO LONGER IS A PART OF OUR LIVES. HE IS OUR LIFE.
Beth Moore
#98. Life is but a moment to moment heartbeat intertwined with the feelings of existence in a physical body. With each breathe we take we renew our commitment to stay in life. With each thought we think ... ... ... we decide what kind of life we will live.
L.G. Space
#99. Change doesn't begin when we get knocked on our ass. It begins the moment we decide to get back up on our own feet
Dwayne Johnson
#100. Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell, no!
John Belushi
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