Quotes about decision can provide guidance and motivation in making choices. They can offer insight and help clarify thoughts when faced with difficult decisions. These quotes can inspire individuals to trust their instincts and make firm decisions, even in uncertain times. They also remind us that decisions are a part of life and are essential for progress and personal growth. Quotes about decision highlight the importance of taking responsibility for our choices and embracing the consequences that come with them. These quotes can encourage individuals to be confident in their decision-making abilities and to learn from both successful and unsuccessful decisions.
Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free. — Paul Tillich
The one word that makes a good manager -- decisiveness. — Lee Iacocca
The one word that makes a good manager - decisiveness. — Lee Iacocca
Be decisive. A wrong decision is generally less disastrous than indecision. — Bernhard Langer
... anything is better than indecision. We must decide. If I am wrong, we shall soon find out and can do the other thing. But not to decide wastes both time and money and may ruin everything. — Ulysses S. Grant
Each day is a day of decision, and our decisions determine our destiny. — Russell M. Nelson
Keep focused on the substantive issues. To make a decision means having to go through one door and closing all others. — Abraham Zaleznik
Decisions are a way of defining ourselves. There comes a time in life when there is nothing else to do but go your own way. Where you are headed there are no trails, no paths, just your own instincts. — Sergio Bambaren
The best decision is the right decision. The next best decision is the wrong decision. The worst decision is no decision. — Scott Mcnealy
A decision is made with the brain. A commitment is made with the heart. Therefore, a commitment is much deeper and more binding than a decision — Nido R Qubein
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped. — Tony Robbins
The most difficult thing is the decision to act! — Amelia Earhart
If I had to sum up in a word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act. — Lee Iacocca
There is a time when we must firmly choose the course we will follow, or the relentless drift of events will make the decision for us. — Herbert V. Prochnow
Decisiveness is often the art of timely cruelty. — Henry Becque
Short Decision Quotes
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. — Stephen Covey
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
It is decisive to completely destroy Warsaw. — Heinz Guderian
I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. — Leonardo da Vinci
Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level. — Peter Drucker
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage - pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically - to say NO to other things. And the way to do that is by having a bigger YES burning inside.
As a man thinketh, so is he, and as a man chooseth, so is he. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever. — Keri Russell
Intelligent people make decisions based on opportunity costs. — Charlie Munger
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.
Hard Decision Quotes
It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong. — Thomas Sowell
If I had to choose between dribbling past 5 players and scoring from 40 yards at Anfield or shagging miss world, it'd be a hard choice. Thankfully, i've done both — George Best
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. — Howard Thurman
Don't make a permanent decision for a temporary circumstance.
You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It wont happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, ‘I don’t care how hard this is, I don’t care how disappointed I am, I’m not going to let this get the best of me. I’m moving on with my life. — Joel Osteen
We all have an internal life clock. Each day, we make decisions that cause the clock to tick over much faster or slower, depending on when & how much we eat, sleep & exercise. It's hard to be perfect but it helps to ask: What would my future self want me to do today? — David Sinclair
Becoming a monk was a hard decision. Leaving being a monk was harder, but it's given me so much faith in my ability to transition, and that what I learned as a monk can still serve me. — Jay Shetty
You only lose what you cling to.
We can do things the cheap way, the simple way, for the short-term and without regard for the future. Or, we can make the extra effort, do the hard work, absorb the criticism and make decisions that will cause a better future. — Mike Rounds
Concentrate your resources on a small number of high-conviction bets; this is easy to say but evidently hard to do. You can delete more stuff than you think. — Sam Altman
You cannot make progress without making decisions. — Jim Rohn
It is hard to describe how much you learn by actually doing — by carefully considering all factors, making a decision, and then taking responsibility for the outcome. Unlocks wisdom that cannot be arrived at any other way. — Greg Brockman
One Wrong Decision Quotes
No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be? — George Orwell
Make your own decision, based on your deepest intuitive wisdom and knowledge. You may make the right decision or the wrong one, but whatever happens, it is your best shot, and you will strengthen your capacity for future action. — David Deida
And having once chosen, never to seek to return to the crossroads of that decision-for even if one chooses wrongly, the choice cannot be unmade. — Jacqueline Carey
May we ever choose the harder right, instead of the easier wrong.
It’s better to make a decision, even the wrong one, than to be in limbo. — Seth
There's right and there's wrong. You got to do one or the other. You do the one and you're living. You do the other and you may be walking around, but you're dead as a beaver hat. — John Wayne
One person making a wrong decision affects the whole country. — Jared Diamond
Wrong is wrong, even if everyone is doing it. Right is right, even if no on is doing it.
So much of what I've learned, so much of what's good in my life, was learned because something bad happened, or from making the wrong decision. Through bad decisions I learned how to find the ways to make the right ones. — Cheryl Strayed
Maybe we will get to this point and reach a decision one way or the other with 'Human cloning is acceptable,' but I doubt that it is ever going to happen for 'It is morally permissible to eat shrimp' or with the general formula 'Adultery is wrong,' whose intended extension is again very unclear. — Catherine Wilson
I think the worst decision is usually no decision. If you make the wrong decision you can usually course-correct, but if you don't make it, you've already made it, and it's usually the bad one. — Roger Ailes
A government decision that slashes spending at the wrong time and sends a weak economy into a tailspin can be just as undisciplined as one that unleashes a wasteful spending spree in an overheated environment. — Peter Blair Henry
Big Decision Quotes
I think people in Montreal smoke a lot, and I used to smoke when I was 17-18, and just picked it up when I was playing juniors. But I think I stopped when I was 22, which was a big decision in my life. — Mario Lemieux
I'm a big fan of intention. That's because I have learned first-hand the power of setting my intention on my goal and making all decisions based off of that intention. — Lewis Howes
You don't want to make big decisions in a rush. — Jay Shetty
Decide what you want, and then act as if it were impossible to fail.
It is the worst way that big power could act, it is arrogance, it is proudness, it is measuring of one's decision in accordance to his bigness, unfortunately, therefore lack of any wisdom. — Siad Barre
We never feel completely ready for life's big decisions; but in taking the leap, we push ourselves to the next level. — Patrick Bet-David
One of my big goals professionally is to get more leaders to stop acting on intuition and experience and instead be data-driven. — Adam Grant
High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly, make big decisions quickly and move into action immediately. Follow these principles and you can make your dreams come true. — Robert H. Schuller
David Lynch was a big influence in how when you watch Twin Peaks or many of his films, one of the things I love is that he empowers the viewer to make their own decision about what's happening. — Duncan Trussell
In life you make the small decisions with your head and the big decisions with your heart. — Omid Kordestani
Never make a big decision without sleeping on it. — Martha Stewart
Difficult Decision Quotes
It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors. — Jimmy Carter
The absolute worst part of my job is having to cut people. I have to cut people after every show, that's just how it goes. But I don't judge you on wins and losses. What I do care about is a great fight. — Dana White
Men - the colour of their tie is the most difficult decision they have to make every day. — Nicola Sturgeon
The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision. — Robyn Davidson
What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties. — Elia Kazan
If we're going to preach about democracy we're going to have to make difficult decisions. We're not going to sell our values out for basing rights, particularly when (Defense) Secretary (Donald) Rumsfeld himself noted that there were options to the base in Uzbekistan — Bill Delahunt
Well, we've faced very difficult decisions and challenges in our country, every one of us have, as we - since September 11th, as we fought the war on terror, all of those decisions that the President had to make to put young men and women in harm's way. — Laura Bush
When you’re taking the country through difficult times and difficult decisions you’ve got to take the country with you. That means permanently trying to make the argument that what you’re doing is fair and seen to be fair. — David Cameron
Someone once said anyone can be great under rosy circumstances, but the true test of character is measured by how well a person makes decisions during difficult times. — Jack Gantos
There may be some difficulties during a period of adjustment. Specifically, picking up their life again and making their own truly independent decisions. — Rick Ross
When children are allowed to help make family decisions, they tend to be much more supportive and happier with family life. Also when allowed to help make rules, they will follow them much closer than if rules are forced on them. All these add up to a happier home for all. — Sayings
Life is a sum of all your choices". So, what are you doing today? — Albert Camus
I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is. — B. F. Skinner
Black Power simply means: Look at me, I'm here. I have dignity. I have pride. I have roots. I insist, I demand that I participate in those decisions that affect my life and the lives of my children. It means that I am somebody. — Whitney M. Young
You cannot live your life to please others. The choice must be yours. — Anne Hathaway
Do not let either the medical authorities or the politicians mislead you. Find out what the facts are, and make your own decisions about how to live a happy life and how to work for a better world. — Linus Pauling
Make a firm decision: 'Whatever happens, I will be happy. I will be strong. God is always with me.' — Mata Amritanandamayi
The decision to go into debt alters the course and condition of your life. You no longer own it. You are owned. — Dave Ramsey
I think that every decision I make in my life is based off of an emotion - and it definitely hurts me in some situations, and helps in some situations, like obviously writing and stuff is my favourite thing to do because I get to use all of my emotions and express them in that way. — Melanie Martinez
Right Decision Quotes
What is the secret of success? Right decisions. How do you make right decisions? Experience. How do you gain experience? Wrong decisions. — Abdul Kalam
While transparency reduces corruption, good governance goes beyond transparency in achieving openness. Openness means involving the stakeholders in decision-making process. Transparency is the right to information while openness is the right to participation. — Narendra Modi
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. — Theodore Roosevelt
The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge right or make good decision. — Alexander Hamilton
Not making a decision is the worst thing you can do. So long as you feel you made the right decision based on the information you had at that time, there's no need to fret about it. If it fails, you'll know what to do next time. — Bo Schembechler
A people inspired by democracy, human rights and economic opportunity will turn their back decisively against extremism. — Benazir Bhutto
The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face. — Napoleon Hill
The right decision is the wrong decision if it's made too late. — Lee Iacocca
Making The Right Decision Quotes
We define ourselves far too often by our past failures. That’s not you. You are this person right now. You’re the person who has learned from those failures. Build confidence and momentum with each good decision you make from here on out and choose to be inspired. — Joe Rogan
If you have a 2 or 3 year old who is not talking, you must start an early intervention program. The worst thing you can do with an autistic 3 year old is to do nothing. — Temple Grandin
Our companies communities and countries don’t necessarily suffer from a shortage of novel ideas. They’re constrained by a shortage of people who excel at choosing the right novel ideas. — Adam Grant
A man's judgment is best when he can forget himself and any reputation he may have acquired and can concentrate wholly on making the right decisions. — Raymond A. Spruance
Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit. — William Pollard
My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are cheap; you make them because they're right. — Theodore Hesburgh
If you support Ukraine joining NATO then you support the US fighting a hot war with Russia right now. I don’t care what your reasoning is. If you support that, you are a dangerously insane person who should never be allowed to make these decisions. — Dave Smith
A man's judgment is best when he can forget himself and any reputation he may have acquired and can concentrate wholly on making the right decisions. — Raymond Spruance
We have the duty of formulating, of summarizing, and of communicating our conclusions, in intelligible form, in recognition of the right of other free minds to utilize them in making their own decisions. — Ronald Fisher
Courage is a decision you make to act in a way that works through your own fear for the greater good as opposed to pure self-interest. Courage means putting at risk your immediate self-interest for what you believe is right. — Derrick Bell
Make The Right Decision Quotes
If you always make the right decision, the safe decision, the one most people make, you will be the same as everyone else. — Paul Arden
I wont ever put myself in a bad position so that people can say bad things about me. I make smart decisions, and my friends and my family, they are all there for the right reason. — Derrick Rose
The idea that you will make the right decision every time is very unlikely. — Dan Ariely
You can't be 100% perfect, but try to evaluate things and do what's right. If you just make every effort to do the right thing, you'll come out ok. It comes down to priorities and making good decisions. — Archie Manning
It's easy to judge, to think we know for certain the right thing to do. Sometimes, it just isn't so clear. — Jessica Lange
You have the right to your own ideas and opinions, to make your own decisions, and to have things go your way at times. Stand up for those rights. — Beverly Engel
Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision. — Tony Robbins
Mama was a stickler on keeping your word. That's helped me to make the right decisions in so many situations. Because of that, I also think really hard before I make a decision because I know I'm going to have to see it through. — Reba McEntire
This administration is doing everything we can to end the stalemate in an efficient way. We're making the right decisions to bring the solution to an end. — George W. Bush
Sometimes you make the right decision, sometimes you make the decision right. — Phil McGraw
Wrong Decision Quotes
You can be angry and pissed off at the coach and put your head down and pout. Or you can rise above it, respect the decision, but also know that you're going to go and work that much harder and prove everybody wrong. And that's the road that I chose. — Carli Lloyd
We lose the fear of making decisions, great and small; as we realize that should our choice prove wrong we can, if we will, learn from the experience. — Bill W.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone. — Naval Ravikant
The best thing you can do is follow your dreams — The Rev
Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not. — Phil Crosby
A decision made from fear is always the wrong decision. — Tony Robbins
Any time you find yourself making life decisions to satisfy someone else's expectations, you are probably doing it for the wrong reasons. The least regrettable way to live is on your own terms in your own way and for your own cause. — Steven Bartlett
It doesn’t matter if it is quick if it’s the wrong answer. — Michael Saylor
Love Decision Quotes
I know for certain that we never lose the people we love, even to death. They continue to participate in every act, thought and decision we make. Their love leaves an indelible imprint in our memories. We find comfort in knowing that our lives have been enriched by having shared their love. — Leo Buscaglia
Children learn how to make good decisions by making decisions, not by following directions. — Alfie Kohn
If you commit to yourself... if you commit to love yourself, despite everything that's happened to you, despite everything you've done, your life can be beautiful, but it starts with a decision to move forward. — Tom Bilyeu
To love somebody is not just a strong feeling - it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. — Erich Fromm
Most of our decisions are driven by either love or fear. Figure out who's doing the talking, then decide what you'll do. — Bob Goff
all the time something within her was crying for a decision. She wanted her life shaped now, immediately — and the decision must be made by some force — of love, of money, of unquestionable practicality — that was close at hand — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved,it would be much simpler, but much less magical — Trey Parker
When there a difficult decisions appear in my life, there are difficult questions to answer… I consult loved ones. — Khabib Nurmagomedov
We all lose sometimes. We fail to get what we want. Friends and loved ones leave. We make a decision we regret. We try our hardest and come up short. It's not the losing that defines us. It's how we lose. It's what we do afterward. — Scott Jurek
Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music. — Kingsley Amis
Take responsibility for your last bad decision, and then let it go. Don't blame others or make excuses for yourself. — Deepak Chopra
No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair. — George S. Patton
I felt bad, yet I knew I’d made the right choice. I was following my heart. — Rich Roll
Power doesn't corrupt. It's neutral. Someone always wants to corrupt power. It's the way a shotgun is not a deadly weapon until someone chooses to use it irrationally. — Steve Ditko
You want people with different life experiences as a backstop against bad decisions. — Tucker Carlson
Every bad decision I've made has been based on money. I grew up in the projects and you don't turn down money there. You take it, because you never know when it's all going to end. I made Cop III because they offered me $15 million. That $15 million was worth having Roger Ebert's thumb up my ass. — Eddie Murphy
you never make the same mistake twice. the second time you make it, it is no longer a mistake. it is a choice — Lauren Conrad
Having a financial adviser enables the investor to carry a psychological call option. If the investment decision turns out well, the investor takes the credit, and if it turns out badly, the regret can be lowered by blaming the adviser. — Hersh Shefrin
Bangkok, like Las Vegas, sounds like a place where you make bad decisions. — Todd Phillips
Decision Making Process Quotes
Regardless of the nature of their crime or any rehabilitation that may have occurred, these ex-felons cannot participate in the decision-making process of this great Nation. — Charles Rangel
Ten years ago in Nairobi we said that the participation of women in the decision-making and appraisal processes of the United Nations was essential if the organization was to effectively serve women's interests. — Jenny Shipley
The biggest thing I learned from being in the special forces is the decision-making process and also the willingness not to give up. You need to have a certain mindset. I call it a positive mindset. — Nirmal Purja
Hindsight is of little value in the decision-making process. It distorts our memory for events that occurred at the time of the decision so that the actual consequence seems to have been a "foregone conclusion." Thus, it may be difficult to learn from our mistakes. — Diane F. Halpern
Nothing creates more self-respect among employees than being included in the process of making decisions. — Judith M Bardwick
Let us acknowledge and celebrate what youth can do to build a safer, more just world. Let us strengthen our efforts to include young people in policies, programmes and decision-making processes that benefit their futures and ours. — Ban Ki-moon
Any situation in which some men prevent others from engaging in the process of inquiry is one of violence;… to alienate humans from their own decision making is to change them into objects. — Paulo Freire
We need to empower women. Give women a voice in the decision-making process. Give women a political voice where they can champion, for their own welfare. And, of course, for us. United Nations - organizations, agencies - we need to do our part. — Margaret Chan
Years ago a statistician might have claimed that statistics deals with the processing of data. . . to-days statistician will be more likely to say that statistics is concerned with decision making in the face of uncertainty. — Herman Chernoff
The real process of making decisions, of gathering support, of developing opinions, happens before the meeting or after. — Terrence Deal
Wise Decision Quotes
A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. — Grantland Rice
Follow your pain as if it were a candle in the night, leading you to a place of decision. — Caroline Myss
You have two choices: You can make a living, or you can design a life. — Jim Rohn
The starting point for building great relationships is making wise decisions about who we allow close to us. We need people who will build us up and take us forward, and good friends will do just that. — Brian Houston
People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures. — F. Matthias Alexander
Statistics may be defined as "a body of methods for making wise decisions in the face of uncertainty. — W. Allen Wallis
Our future experiences will be colored by the choices we make in the present. — Noah Levine
Satan has no power over us except what we allow. Moment by moment, decision by decision, step by step - will we operate in God's all powerful Truth or allow Satan to entangle us in his lies? — Lysa TerKeurst
Make a decision. It doesn't have to be a wise decision or a perfect one. Just make one. — Seth Godin
The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small. — Witter Bynner
Decisions made in Washington are more important to us than those made here in Dar es-Salaam. So, maybe my people should be allowed to vote in American presidential elections. — Julius Nyerere
When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there. — Zig Ziglar
It doesn't matter how strong your opinions are. If you don't use your power for positive change, you are, indeed, part of the problem. — Coretta Scott King
Never make a permanent decision based on a temporary storm.. No matter how raging the billows are today, remind yourself: "This too shall pass!" — T. D. Jakes
Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters. — Abraham Lincoln
To those of you with your years of service still ahead, the challenge is yours. Stop doubting yourselves. Have the courage to make up your minds and hold your decisions. Refuse to be BOUGHT for a nickel, or a million dollars, or a job! — Mary Mcleod Bethune
It is unfortunate when final decisions are made by chieftains headquartered miles away from the front, where they can only guess at conditions and potentialities known only to the captain of the battlefield. — Attila the Hun
The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood. — Otto von Bismarck
Don?t make decisions in anger or humiliate an enemy after defeating him. — Saddam Hussein
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