Quotes about decisions

"The refusal to choose is a form of choice; disbelief is a form of belief."

Barron, Frank on decisions
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"Decisiveness is often the art of timely cruelty."

Becquerel, Henri on decisions   

"When you come to a fork in the road, take it."

Berra, Yogi on decisions
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"Where there is no counsel, the people perish; but in the multitude of counselors there is safety. [Proverbs 29:18; 11:14]"

Bible on decisions
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"Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on decisions
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"We are given one life, and the decision is our whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind or whether to act and, in acting, to live."

Bradley, Omar Nelson on decisions
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"Most of our executives make very sound decisions. The trouble is many of them have turned out not to have been right."

Bullock, Donald on decisions   

"Shelving hard decisions is the least ethical course."

Cadbury, Adrian on decisions   

"Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions."

Callaghan, James on decisions
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"Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?"

Canetti, Elias on decisions
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"Indecision and delays are the parents of failure."

Canning, George on decisions
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"The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong."

Carlyle, Thomas on decisions
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"They are decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent."

Churchill, Winston on decisions
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"Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness or oppose with firmness."

Colton, Charles Caleb on decisions
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"In addition to self-awareness, imagination and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment-independent will-that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day."

Covey, Stephen R. on decisions
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"Every decision you make is a mistake."

Dahlberg, Edward on decisions   

"Everything starts with yourself -- with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life. I tell kids that it's a cruel world, and that the world will bend them either left or right, and it's up to them to decide which way to bend."

Dorsett, Tony on decisions   

"Decision making is the specific executive task."

Drucker, Peter F. on decisions   

"Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance."

Dryden, John on decisions   

"Once -- many, many years ago -- I thought I made a wrong decision. Of course, it turned out that I had been right all along. But I was wrong to have thought that I was wrong."

Dulles, John Foster on decisions   

"Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made."

Dyer, Wayne on decisions
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"The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!"

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on decisions
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"How could a man be satisfied with a decision between such alternatives and under such circumstances? No more than he can be satisfied with his hat, which he's chosen from among such shapes as the resources of the age offer him, wearing it at best with a resignation which is chiefly supported by comparison."

Eliot, George on decisions   

"Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on decisions
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"Business leaders often get credit for the successful decisions that were forced on them."

Fick, Oliver A. on decisions   

"A man without decision can never be said to belong to himself."

Foster, John W. on decisions
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"I hate to see things done by halves. If it be right, do it boldly, if it be wrong leave it undone."

Gilpin, Bernard on decisions   

"Make decisions from the heart and use your head to make it work out."

Girad, Sir on decisions
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"When possible make the decisions now, even if action is in the future. A reviewed decision usually is better than one reached at the last moment."

Given, William B. on decisions   

"The person who in shaky times also wavers only increases the evil, but the person of firm decision fashions the universe."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on decisions
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"Decision is a sharp knife that cuts or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was clean and straight; indecision, a dull one that hacks and tears and leaves ragged edges behind it."

Graham, Gordon on decisions   

"Indecision is the seedling of fear."

Hill, Napoleon on decisions
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"It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide what to do."

Hubbard, Elbert on decisions
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"The lives of the best of us are spent in choosing between evils."

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"A decision without the pressure of consequence is hardly a decision at all."

Langmuir., Eric on decisions   

"I determined never to stop until I had come to the end and achieved my purpose."

Livingstone, David on decisions
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"Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide; In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side."

Lowell, James Russell on decisions
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"In making our decisions, we must use the brains that God has given us. But we must also use our hearts which He also gave us. A man who has not learned to say, No --who is not resolved that he will take God's way, in spite of every dog that can bay or bark at him, in spite of every silvery choice that woos him aside--will be a weak and a wretched man till he dies."

Maclaren, Alexander on decisions
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"Decide promptly, but never give any reasons. Your decisions may be right, but your reasons are sure to be wrong."

Mansfield, Lord on decisions
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"Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the Ready- Aim-Aim-Aim Syndrome. You must be willing to fire."

Pickens, T. Boone on decisions