Decide Upon Quotes

• Whatever you do, you need courage.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Courage, Criticism, Needs

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• There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Courage, Believe

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• To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Courage, Soldier, Needs

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• Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Life, Courage

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• Decide upon your major definite purpose in life and then organize all your activities around it.

  Brian Tracy

  Sports, Choices, Focus

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• Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Courage, Peace, Men

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• Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Confidence, Wisdom

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• If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

  Brian Tracy

  Children, Live Life, Inspiration

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from May 15, 2014

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• I've never been impulsive. It's always been in my nature to consider things carefully and then decide upon the best solution. Except, sometimes the circumstances change. Sometimes things get so complicated and so bad that your nature just doesn't matter anymore.

  Brenna Yovanoff

  Matter, Sometimes, Complicated

  Brenna Yovanoff (2012). “Smoulder”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• Each time thou wishest to decide upon performing some enterprise, raise the eyes to heaven, pray God to bless thy project; if thou canst make that prayer, accomplish thy work.

  Leopold Schefer

  Prayer, Eye, Heaven

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• Even in the life of a Christian, faith rises and falls like the tides of an invisible sea. It's there, even when he can't see it or feel it, if he wants it to be there. You realize, I think, that it is more valuable, more mysterious, altogether more immense than anything you can learn or decide upon It will keep you free - not free to do anything you please, but free to be formed by something larger than your own intellect or the intellects around you.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Christian, Fall, Thinking

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• Ministers should be Bible students. They should thoroughly furnish themselves with the evidences of our faith and hope, and then, with full control of the voice and their feelings, present these evidences in such a manner that the people can calmly weigh them, and decide upon the evidences presented.

  Ellen G. White

  Voice, People, Feelings

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• The specific course you decide upon is, within certain parameters, less important than the vigor with which you execute it.

  Jeff Cooper

  Important, Vigor, Self Defense

  Jeff Cooper (2006). “Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition”, p.20, Paladin Press

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• There is no luck in literary reputation. They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and noisy readers of the hour when it appears; but a court as of angels, a public not to be bribed, not to be entreated, and not to be overawed, decides upon every man's title to fame.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Book, Writing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.50, Penguin

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• ....the globalization that characterizes today's economics goes beyond or eludes the sovereignty of individual states, and thus the power of their rulers. It is not they, but rather financial groups in control of vast amounts of capital, who decide upon their vertiginous passage through nations, without taking into account the serious crises they might generate.

  Patricio Aylwin

  Might, Today, Elude

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• We have at most ten years - not ten years to decide upon action, but ten years to alter fundamentally the trajectory of global greenhouse emissions... We are near a tipping point, a point of no return, beyond which the built in momentum and feedbacks will carry us to levels of climate change with staggering consequences for humanity and all of the residents of this planet.

  James Hansen

  Years, Humanity, Climate

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• The [President's] Nomination, of Course, brings the Subject fully under the Consideration of the Senate; who have then a Right to decide upon its Propriety or Impropriety.

  George Mason

  President, Nominations, Consideration

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• To decide upon the answer is not scientific. In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar ajar only.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Science, Doors, Order

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• Nations decide upon their own destinies, and those choices are not the business of the United States if they do not threaten the United States.

  Pat Buchanan

  Destiny, Choices, United States

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Every artist knows that there is no such thing as "freedom" in art. The first thing an artist does when he begins a new work is to lay down the barriers and limitations; he decides upon a certain composition, a certain key, a certain relation of creatures or objects to each other. He is never free, and the more splendid his imagination, the more intense his feeling, the farther he goes from general truth and general emotion.

  Willa Cather

  Art, Keys, Imagination

  Willa Cather (1988). “Willa Cather on Writing: Critical Studies on Writing as an Art”, p.123, U of Nebraska Press

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• Believing in God is as much like falling in love as it is making a decision. Love is both something that happens to you and something you decide upon.

  Donald Miller

  Falling In Love, Believe, Love Is

  Donald Miller (2012). “Blue Like Jazz: Movie Edition: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality”, p.104, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• We have at most ten years—not ten years to decide upon action, but ten years to alter fundamentally the trajectory of global greenhouse emissions.

  James Hansen

  Years, Action, Greenhouses

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• You mean I'm going to have to do a spell in front of a bunch of toffs?" Kim said, outraged that no one had mentioned this before she had agreed to this come-out. "Yes, exactly", Lady Wendall said serenely. "You and Richard have plenty of time to design something that will reflect your unique background, as well as demonstrating your abilities as a wizard. I am looking forward to seeing what you decide upon." "I could pick everyone's pockets at once with magic, "Kim said, still disgruntled. "That'd 'reflect my unique background', all right".

  Patricia C. Wrede

  Mean, Unique, Design

  Patricia C. Wrede (2010). “A Matter of Magic: Mairelon and The Magician's Ward”, p.305, Macmillan

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• I believe in monogamy if that's what a couple decides upon together, but it all depends on the personal history and culture of the two involved.

  K. D. Lang

  Couple, Believe, Two

  "What I know about women". Interview with Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2009.

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• The most important key to achieving great success is to decide upon your goal and launch, get started, take action, move.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Motivational Sports, Moving

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