“The hard thing when you get old is to keep your horizons open. The first part of your life everything is in front of you, all your potential and promise. But over the years, you make decisions; you carve yourself into a given shape. Then the challenge is to keep discovering the green growing edge.” YearsFirstsHardGivenChallengesDecisionGrowingFrontsPromiseShapesGreenEdgesHorizonDiscoveringHard Things Author:Howard Thurman
“Faith is lifeless unless you act on it. T.L. Osbourne says: “When the promises of God are believed and acted upon they become the power of God”. We can do all the things we have previously talked about about: desire, decision, prayer, speaking faith, seeing the answer, but if we don’t act our faith it is all to no avail.” IfsDesireCan DoPrayerDecisionAnswersSeeingPromisePower Of GodLifeless Author:Phil Pringle
“Never make a decision in anger and never make a promise in happiness.” HappinessDecisionPromiseAnger Author:Ali ibn Abi Talib
“I am so thankful I had the strength and promises of a loving God to guide my choices and decisions, and to uphold me through the unbelievably dark days and times of overwhelming sorrow.” ChoicesDarkDecisionSorrowPromiseGuidesOverwhelmingLoving GodDark DaysChoices And Decisions Author:Zig Ziglar
“The promise of equal educational opportunity envisioned by the Brown decision remains unfulfilled.” OpportunityDecisionPromiseEqualRemainsEducationalBrown Author:Bobby Scott
“But the best thing Washington can do for education is realize that our role is limited. Washington must keep its promises, but let those who know our childrens' names- parents, teachers and school board members- make education decisions.” KnowsSchoolNamesParentCan DoRealizingDecisionRolesTeacherPromiseMembersOur ChildrenBest ThingsBoardsBest TeacherSchool BoardBoard Members Author:Mark Kennedy
“Second chances, miracles, angels, faith and religion all promise us a way of doing things better to smooth over the regrets and hope we make better decisions in the future. We all want to become better than who we are now, and we're all continuing to know ourselves better.” KnowsWayWantChanceDecisionRegretPromiseAngelMiracleWho We AreContinuingSmoothSecond Chance Author:Laura San Giacomo
“Many people expect, just as they did then, "those at the top" to make all their decisions for them: Please get us work, and take care of our rent. These people vote for those who shout the loudest and deliver promises that are ultimately impossible to fulfill.” PeopleCareDecisionImpossiblePleasePromiseVoteTake Care Author:Wladyslaw Bartoszewski
“Love is an unconditional commitment to an imperfect person. To love somebody isn`t just a strong feeling. It is a decision, a judgment, and a promise.” PersonsFeelingsStrongDecisionLove IsPromiseJudgmentCommitmentUnconditional LoveImperfectUnconditionalStrong FeelingImperfect Person Author:Paulo Coelho
“I think the President's decision to withdraw the United States, to keep a campaign promise in Iraq, without leaving a stay-behind force was a mistake, and I hear that from veterans in Wyoming and from parents who lost children fighting in Iraq. We're seeing it, though, around the world. When we, the United States leads a vacuum anywhere, that emboldens others to go in, when there is no sense of deterrence by the United States that lets bad actors move and fill the void.” ThinkingWorldChildrenMovingFightingParentDecisionMistakePromiseLeavingVeteran Author:John Barrasso
“Early on in my career, when I was working at an advertising agency, I went to a very senior-level meeting and I distinctly remember the inside of the boardroom: every single seat was occupied by a man. In that moment, I made a private promise to myself that I would do everything in my power to bring more diversity to these rooms where leaders gathered and decisions were made. As my career unfolded and I worked on a wide range of clients and gained experience across lots of different industries, the businesses I enjoyed the most where those that focused on women.” MenDifferentMomentsRememberDecisionLeaderPromiseDiversityMeetingsFocusedAdvertising Author:Laurel J. Richie
“We're not like robots. God promises to guide us through the Holy Spirit, but He gives us the freedom to make our own decisions.” GivingSpiritDecisionHolyPromiseGuidesHoly SpiritRobotsGod Promises Author:Joyce Meyer
“Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision.” IfsLoveMayDoeFeelingsWould BeDecisionLove IsForeverJudgingPromiseJudgmentRomanticBasesLost LoveRomantic LoveLove Each OtherArt Of Loving Book:THE ART OF LOVING Source: THE ART OF LOVING
“The way of trust is a movement into obscurity, into the undefined, into ambiguity, not into some predetermined, clearly delineated plan for the future. The next step discloses itself only out of a discernment of God acting in the desert of the present moment. The reality of naked trust is the life of the pilgrim who leaves what is nailed down, obvious, and secure, and walks into the unknown without any rational explanation to justify the decision or guarantee the future. Why? Because God has signaled the movement and offered it his presence and his promise.” WayMomentsRealityNextDecisionWalksActingStepsPlansMovementPromiseObviousNakedRationalSecureDesertExplanationGuaranteesJustifyPresent MomentDiscernmentAmbiguityObscurityPilgrimNext StepsPredeterminedUndefined Author:Brennan Manning
“Kitten, you need to make a decision. Either we stay here and behave or we leave now and I promise you”—his voice dipped lower and the words fell against my lips—“if we leave, I won’t behave.” IfsNeedsVoiceDecisionPromiseLipsBehaveI PromiseKitten Author:Jeaniene Frost
“There is a time in our lives, usually in mid-life, when a woman has to make a decision - possibly the most important psychic decision of her future life - and that is, whether to be bitter or not. Women often come to this in their late thirties or early forties. They are at the point where they are full up to their ears with everything and they've "had it" and "the last straw has broken the camel's back" and they're "pissed off and pooped out." Their dreams of their twenties may be lying in a crumple. There may be broken hearts, broken marriages, broken promises.” HeartMayImportantDreamLastsLyingDecisionOur LivesBrokenPromiseLateEarsTwentiesBitterFortyPsychicsStrawsCamelsPissed OffBroken PromisesFuture LifeBroken Marriage Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes