moment of decision Quotes

He had the vague sense of standing on a threshold, the crossing of which would change everything.

Who cannot but see oftentimes how strange the threads of our destiny run? Oft it is only for a moment the favorable instant is presented. We miss it, and months and years are lost.

It's funny, but thinking back on it now, I realize that this particular point in time, as I stood there blinking in the deserted hall, was the one point at which I might have chosen to do something very much different from what I actually did. But of course I didn't see this crucial moment for what it actually was; I suppose we never do. Instead, I only yawned, and shook myself from the momentary daze that had come upon me, and went on my way down the stairs.

I stand here waiting. To disappear or sing.

Everything that's happened has brought me here, to this place, with this knife in my hand, and something worth saving.

You can't explain success in retrospect. The moment you leap into the void, that moment is impossible to negate, after success.

At every single moment, we are given the opportunity to choose our future. What we do today will determine what we face next week, next month, or next year. It is at the moment of a particular occurrence that we are called upon to make a choice: Will I do it the way I've always done it, or will I do it a different way.

There is a time in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.