Top 100 When You Decide Quotes
#1. When you decide to be the immovable object standing in front of the unstoppable force, you'd better pray that you're right about being immovable, and they're wrong about being unstoppable.' 'Otherwise, you'll wind up like a bug on a windshield.
Seanan McGuire
#2. When you decide to find that shriveled little heart of yours and inflate it back to an acceptable human-size, then we can talk.
Jessica Gadziala
#3. When a man asks your advice, he usually tells you just how he expects you to decide.
E.W. Howe
#4. When you decide you want to be with someone forever, you want forever to start right now.
Alexandra Potter
#5. It's for you to decide whether change is right for you right now. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. But either way keep the growth mindset in your thoughts then when you bump up against obstacles you can turn to it, it will always be there for you showing you a path into the future.
Carol S. Dweck
#6. When you decide to follow a certain path, you should follow it to the end and not be diverted from it for personal reasons.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#7. I love you like a brother, Stryder, but I swear there are times when I could strangle the very life out of you. (Zenobia)
'Tis a good thing you care for me then. Given my treatment, I shudder at what you would do to me should you decide to hate me. (Stryder)
Kinley MacGregor
#8. When you have learned how to decide with God all decisions become as easy and as right as breathing. There is no effort and you will be led as gently as if you were being carried down a quiet path in summer.
Helen Schucman
#9. When you decide clearly and definitely what you want, then no sacrifice is too great as you put all of your powers into astounding results.
Charles L. Allen
#10. Hmm, that's not sexual harassment, baby. When I decide to get sexual, trust me, you'll know it.
~ Braden ~
Lora Leigh
#11. Ruby: Oh, you know ... you wait and wait for years for him until you finally give up and move on with your life. You eventually decide to marry Greg and weeks later, Alex splits up with Sally. You know, you two have the worst timing ever. When will you ever learn to catch up with each other?
Cecelia Ahern
#12. When I'm in the middle of fucking you with my mouth, you don't interrupt. You can have my cock, but it'll be when I decide it's time. Do you understand?
Nina Levine
#13. 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
#14. You may feel overwhelmed by your own poverty and the labors of the day. But if you decide not to wait until you have more strength and more money, and if you pray for the Holy Spirit as you go, you will, when you arrive, know what to do and how to help someone even poorer than you are.
Henry B. Eyring
#15. If you are still in school, do not neglect your grades. Internships and other activities are fine, but when legal employers have to decide who to interview, grades play a big role in determining who makes that cut and who doesn't.
Grover Cleveland
#16. Try to find pleasure in the speed that you're not used to. Changing the way you do routine things allows a new person to grow inside of you. But when all is said and done, you're the one who must decide how you handle it.
Paulo Coelho
#17. When you decide to meet - in person - someone that you met online, would you then be taking your relationship to the 'previous' level?
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#18. True art is creation, and creation is beyond all theories. That is why I say to any beginner: Learn your theories as well as you can, but put them aside when you touch the miracle of the living soul. Not theories but your own creative individuality alone must decide.
Carl Jung
#19. When you are generalizing, and when your goal is to malign and to say things about an entire group - there are tens of millions of Scientologists in the world - when you decide to blanket statement that 'Scientology is evil,' you are my enemy.
Kirstie Alley
#20. Your knowledge is not a substitute for your passion. No matter how knowledgeable you are, when laziness takes the lead in your daily decisions, your knowledge becomes valueless!
Israelmore Ayivor
#21. When you decide you want to become a television writer, you naively assume it's going to be like the writers on the old 'Dick Van Dyke Show.' You'll write something and they'll just put it on TV. But what you quickly discover is that American network television is television by committee.
Jeffrey Klarik
#22. And don't kid yourself; when you don't decide, that's a decision.
Anh Do
#23. I decide what character I am. I allow myself to become another person. Because if I'm just Stephanie, I'm not comfortable. When I have to jump and do all these things, I feel so silly, but if you become someone else, it's okay.
Stephanie Seymour
#24. Some people are like drums, Ranga. They are only heard when you strike them. Do not be like a drum, Ranga, be heard when thou has something to say, and let the world decide.
Ian B.G. Burns
#25. I couldn't decide if the dream was a good dream or a bad dream. Maybe a good dream because when I woke I wasn't sad. Maybe that's how you measured whether a dream was good or bad. By the way it made you feel.
Anonymous
#26. You have to decide what's important to you and work it out. When I'm with my family, I try to concentrate on my family and when I'm at work, I try to concentrate on my work.
JJ Ramberg
#27. When under attack, it is necessary to evaluate the situation and to decide instantly upon a proper course of action, to be carried out immediately with all the force you can bring to bear. He who hesitates is indeed lost. Do not soliloquize. Do not delay. Be decisive.
Jeff Cooper
#28. Don't forget, when you refuse to make right choices, you have already chosen to live the wrong way! Indecision is a decision to live wrongly!
Israelmore Ayivor
#29. While technology empowers us to remain connected all the time, it's up to us as people to decide when is it not appropriate to be connected ... to opt out when you need to.
Padmasree Warrior
#30. I don't know if I've got swept up. It's so shocking when you hear that Calvin Klein wants you for their new campaign. You're like, 'who me?'. I guess you have to decide where you draw the line between you saying, this is fun, pretty and fabulous, and being over-exposed.
Scarlett Johansson
#31. Decide to be HAPPY when you start your day.React with JOY whatever comes your way.You may be hurt by what people say ,but don't let anyone spoil your day.-RVM
R.v.m.
#32. When people decide that a certain way of faith is destined and inevitable, hatred and intolerance follow. Instead of saying, 'The Light is within you, choose the Light,' the message becomes 'Agree with our version of history or we'll kill you.
John Twelve Hawks
#33. When tragedy comes like this, at first it is complete. You do not need to think it over, or decide what it means. For it is far ahead of you, and the very act of acknowledging it means letting it go. But then it comes round again - and it goes through you and is worse than before.
Benjamin Lytal
#34. Let me get this straight. First you decide I'm a demon because of a power I didn't ask for and don't even understand. Then when that falls through you label me a fallen sybil and a ho. Am I missing something or do you just not like me
Karen Chance
#35. When you are scanning for lies and you can't decide if a person is telling the truth or lying, it's in your best interests to always go with your gut feeling.
Brian Night
#36. Only you get to decide how you stand, what you stand for, and when you do it.
Penny Reid
#37. It might not be distance or time that takes you away from people. Maybe you decide when you let them go. But I can't let go yet.
Cecilia Vinesse
#38. There was a certain point in my life where I had to decide that I was going to take my future and Nicole's and not wallow in what happened to me because when you do that, you just keep repeating what's been happening and at some point you have to make a choice.
Boris Kodjoe
#39. When you don't change, history repeats itself. Then you have to decide if changing is for the best, or you keep seeing repeats because you're doing something right.
Rebecca McKinsey
#40. It's the most damaging consequence associated with sociopaths. You love the person they want you to love, and then you're left with the aftermath when they finally decide to show their true colors.
Fisher Amelie
#41. Don't promise when you're happy, Don't reply when you're angry, and don't decide when you're sad.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#42. Life is at its best when everything has fallen out of place, and you decide that you're going to fight to get them right, not when everything is going your way and everyone is praising you.
Thisuri Wanniarachchi
#43. When people ask me about my dialogue, I say, 'Don't you hear people talking?' That's all I do. I hear a certain type of individual, I decide this is what he should be, whatever it is, and then I hear him. Well, I don't hear anybody that I can't make talk.
Elmore Leonard
#44. There is a major turning point in life when you have to decide: shall I grow old gracefully or shall I try everything to stem the tide? For me, that point came in 2001, when I stopped dyeing my hair.
Nik Kershaw
#45. 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
#46. The only time you have no opportunities is when you decide to stop taking them.
Danny Wallace
#47. When you are entrusted with all the information, you have to decide how much other people should know,
Veronica Roth
#48. When people say they love you, you just have to decide to believe them, because you'll never know for sure.
Ellen Wittlinger
#49. When you finally decide to face all your fears, then be assured that success is knocking at your door.
Jacinta Mpalyenkana
#50. And you know what? You don't get to say it's not a big thing. This is a big fucking thing, okay? This was supposed to be - this is mine. I'm supposed to decide when and where and who knows and how I want to say it.
Becky Albertalli
#51. 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
#52. You don't understand their mentality. They won't accept your resignation because they don't think you have the right to quit. They are the ones who decide how long you should stay and when you should be dispensed with. More than anything else, it was this arbitrariness that had become unbearable.
Azar Nafisi
#53. She (my mom) said that when you need courage the most is when you realize what's happened in your life and you decide to get up the next morning anyway.
Karen Pavlicin
#54. No, you become a man when you first decide to put away the things of childhood, the talk of childhood, and the thoughts of childhood. You decide because you cannot be treated as both a man and a boy. Because you are either one or the other, but you are not both ...
Carew Papritz
#56. When you decide to do this kind of music then you just accept the facts.
Gary Numan
#57. When you meet failure, do you decide on backing up or backing out?. If you decide to fly, you have to back up. You have to rise up when you fall down!
Israelmore Ayivor
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. It's the kind of smile you smile when you're thinking someone over and trying to decide how you feel about them.
Jennifer Niven
#61. 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
#62. When they give you a choice, it's a selection of handpicked possibilities they have prescreened. No matter what you decide, the core choice has already been made, and you weren't involved in it.
Ilona Andrews
#63. Life is all about that one day, when you finally decide to step up and do something which makes you happy, again.
Sarvesh Jain
#64. Things are always given to us when we need them ... You just have to decide if you're strong enough, brave enough, to seize it and make it
yours. (Acheron)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#65. When you're put in a position where you're having to decide, Is this a good decision? Is this the right decision for everybody involved? - it makes me feel a little unsteady, unsure.
Tyler Blackburn
#66. Ending a series is a difficult one ... where should a story that you have followed for so long end? When do you step away from the characters and let the readers decide their fate from there? When they can stand on their own is my only answer for that.
Shandy L. Kurth
#67. When a person tells you that you hurt them, you don't get to decide that you didn't.
Louis C.K.
#68. People really do not like it when you decide to step off the road and climb the mountain instead. It seems to make even the people who mean well nervous.
Shonda Rhimes
#69. I should let people I meet do the work of piecing me together until they can complete, or mostly complete, the puzzle. And when they're finished they can look at the picture that they've managed to piece together and decide whether they like it or not. On their own time. Let them discover you.
Carrie Fisher
#70. When you decide to live a totally surrendered life, that decision will be tested. Sometimes it will mean doing inconvenient, unpopular, costly, or seemingly impossible tasks. It will often mean doing the opposite of what you feel like doing.
Rick Warren
#71. Miles of junk to throw out
how do you decide what to keep when everything is sentiment.
Staceyann Chin
#72. When you reach your sixties, you have to decide whether you're going to be a sot or an ascetic. In other words if you want to go on working after you're sixty, some degree of asceticism is inevitable.
Malcolm Muggeridge
#74. during conversation faces are so expressive that they distract individuals with ASC. So people with ASC have to decide, Do I watch or listen? This is why those of us with ASC so often don't look at you when we're speaking or being spoken to. We can only do one thing at a time.
Wenn Lawson
#75. everything is interim. Every season that I thought was stable and would be just how it was for a long time ended up being a preparation or a path to the next thing. When you decide to be on this journey with God, everything is interim.
Shauna Niequist
#76. Decide what you want and don't think of the intermediary conditions. When Nature works for us we should want what we want and Nature will work it out for us.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#77. Calendar does not decide when you are going to change your life for the better. You do.
Ika Natassa
#78. Kyubey: When you decide to die for the good of the universe, call me anytime. I'll be waiting.
Magica Quartet
#79. Decide the type of person you want to be, and when others aren't looking, unique up on them.
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#80. There isn't one kind of happiness, there's all kinds. Decision is torment for anyone with imagination. When you decide, you multiply the things you might have done and now never can.
Penelope Fitzgerald
#81. When you decide to make a film, it's imperative that it's a story you just have to tell ... no matter what. If so, then dive in. It won't be 'work' ... it will be a thrilling, deeply satisfying experience.
Dori Berinstein
#82. When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities.
Robin Hobb
#83. You have to make a choice when you start to sing and decide whether you want to service the music, and be at the top of your art, or if you want to be a very popular tenor.
Alfredo Kraus
#84. When you come to 'Shark Tank,' the only person you should listen to is me, because you know you're getting the truth. I'll decide if it's worth it, and after I'm finished, the rest of the people can look into it.
Kevin O'Leary
#85. The way you live your life, the perspective you select, is a choice you make every single day when you wake up. It's yours to decide.
Lance Armstrong
#86. It's when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that's the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
#87. Decide where and when you want to write. I like space, and silence is an inspiration to me.
Cecelia Ahern
#88. Money flows in from multiple sources, when you are truly focused on feeling good about what you are doing and living the present moment fully. If you think it has to be hard, then it is hard; if you decide it can be easy, natural, and flowing- you have opened the door.
Sheri Kaye Hoff
#89. When someone is trapped in a burning building, you don't try to work out what caused the fire and then decide whether the people inside get your sympathy. When people are in danger of burning up, you rush to save them. Especially if you remember how much it hurts to be burned.
Christine Caine
#90. Champions are an example of what happens when you decide to leave the plane of average thinking, where you dare to dream and you dare to go after that dream, and you make these thoughts and ideas become more than something than just a dream. They actually become a vision.
Kai Greene
#91. You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.
Joan Baez
#92. 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
#93. Its a toss-up when you decide to leave the beaten track. Many are called, few are chosen.
W. Somerset Maugham
#94. You don't get to decide," she said, "where I go, or when."
"I know." His voice was ragged. "I've always known that about you. I don't know why I had to fall in love with someone who's more stubborn than I am.
Cassandra Clare
#95. When you decide to go after a new dream, you need to give less to your current reality and more to your desired reality ... Take your energy out of what you don't want to be doing anymore so you can put it in what you really want to be doing.
Danielle LaPorte
#96. When people say "What do you want people to get from this movie?" I say, "Well, it depends on what they bring to it." I don't try to decide what people should get from it or why. I don't do a part for those kinds of reasons.
Denzel Washington
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. Everything's possible when you're seven years old." She sighed. "But then you hit an age where you decide it's cooler not to believe in anything at all. [ ... ] It's called being grown-up.
Allan Frewin Jones
