At crucial junctures, every individual makes decisions and ... every decision is individual. — Raul Hilberg
The best decision is the right decision. The next best decision is the wrong decision. The worst decision is no decision. — Scott Mcnealy
The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way. — Alice Waters
You cannot make progress without making decisions. — Jim Rohn
Not all decisions are reversible, but most of them are. — Sahil Bloom
We can't retract the decisions we've made, we can only affect the decisions we're going to make from here. — Jamie Foxx
The decisions you make today will determine the stories you tell tomorrow. — Craig Groeschel
I don't take right decisions, I take decisions and make them right — Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Each day is a day of decision, and our decisions determine our destiny. — Russell M. Nelson
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
Leaders make decisions that create the future they desire. — Mike Murdock
... 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
Three decisions that we all control each moment of our lives: what to focus on, what things mean, and what to do in spite of the challenges that may appear. — Tony Robbins
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
The most important decisions you make are not the things you do, but the things you decide not to do. — Steve Jobs
Short Decisions 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.
I've Made Bad Decisions Quotes
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
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
Every bad decision I've made has been based on money. — Eddie Murphy
Don't make a permanent decision for a temporary circumstance.
When I look at my life now and all the mistakes I've made, all the bad decisions I've made, all the things I could have done differently or done more in, I don't think I would have changed anything. — Apolo Ohno
I've made more bad decisions at 3 in the morning than I can list! — Tim Gunn
I stand by every decision I've made throughout my career and my life, good or bad, up or down. — David Coverdale
You only lose what you cling to.
We all make mistakes. Sometimes I think the only point of our miserable lives is simply to learn how to live with the consequences of the bad decisions we´ve made. — Sherrilyn Kenyon
When You Make Decision Quotes
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
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come. — Robert H. Schuller
Make the decision and say, "I'm not letting that worry in. I'm done being upset when my plans don't work out. I'm not letting that stress in." Negative thoughts will still come to your mind, but you don't have to let them into your spirit. — Joel Osteen
May we ever choose the harder right, instead of the easier wrong.
Don’t worry about where to start. Remember, it’s the decisions you make, it’s the decision to get started it’s the decision to face possible failure, it’s the decision to get up once you’ve failed and it’s the decision of what to learn when you fail. — Tom Bilyeu
When you preserve a person’s autonomy by clearly giving them permission to say 'No' to your ideas, the emotions calm, the effectiveness of the decisions go up, and the other party can really look at your proposal. — Chris Voss
When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take choose the bolder. — William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim
Wrong is wrong, even if everyone is doing it. Right is right, even if no on is doing it.
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
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
When you're feeling lost, take heart. It's just your brain gathering the information it needs to make good decisions. — Josh Kaufman
When you get to that level, it's not a matter of talent anymore - because all the players are so talented - it's about preparation, about playing smart and making good decisions. — Hakeem Olajuwon
Decisions You Make Quotes
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
What is the secret of success? Right decisions. How do you make right decisions? Experience. How do you gain experience? Wrong decisions. — Abdul Kalam
Decide what you want, and then act as if it were impossible to fail.
After you have made a decision that is pleasing to God, the Devil may try to make you have second thoughts. Intensify your prayer time, meditation, and good deeds. For if Satan's temptations merely cause you to increase your efforts to grow in holiness, he'll have an incentive to leave you alone. — Ignatius of Loyola
Life is a sum of all your choices". So, what are you doing today? — Albert Camus
You can't make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen. — Michelle Obama
You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation. — Bette Davis
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
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
Decisions We Make 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
The most important decision I've made in business? The choices of people I have around me. When I first started I brought everybody with me, my homies from the neighborhood, criminals. I just said, 'Come on everybody, we made it.' Then I had to realize we didn't make it. I made it. — Snoop Dogg
To those of us who often procrastinate on the decision we feel intimidated by lack of education or any area of weakness. I relieve you with this statement: It is not how much you know that arms you with the tools of great decision making, but rather how much you ask. Ask questions. — T. D. Jakes
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.
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
You have to start with the truth. The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere. Because any decision-making that is based upon lies or ignorance can't lead to a good conclusion. — Julian Assange
My concern is that I know that there are risks. But we don't have access to the data and the data haven't been captured rigorously enough so that we can accurately assess those risks. And therefore we don't really have the information that we need to make a reasonable decision. — Robert W. Malone
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
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live. — Omar N. Bradley
Business comes and goes and we make a strategic decision that could lead you to a whole new place. — Jensen Huang
Choices Made Quotes
Every time there are losses, there are choices to be made. You choose to live your losses as passages to anger, blame, hatred, depression and resentment, or you choose to let these losses be passages to something new, something wider, and deeper. — Henri Nouwen
A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance. — Hunter S. Thompson
Quantum science suggests the existence of many possible futures for each moment of our lives. Each future lies in a state of rest until it is awakened by choices made in the present. — Gregg Braden
Every artist, every scientist, every writer must decide now where he stands. The artist must take sides. He must elect to fight for freedom or for slavery. I have made my choice. I had no alternative. — Paul Robeson
Mindfulness gives you time. Time gives you choices. Choices, skillfully made, lead to freedom. You don't have to be swept away by your feeling. You can respond with wisdom and kindness rather than habit and reactivity. — Henepola Gunaratana
Heaven on Earth is a choice you must make, not a place you must find. — Wayne Dyer
The only way I made progress - the only choice I had - was to start small. — James Clear
Every minute that you sit around trying to figure out what to do, someone else is already doing it. Make a choice or a choice will be made for you. — Tim Grover
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. — Neil Peart
I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday. — Eleanor Roosevelt
Political Decisions Quotes
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
By the power elite, we refer to those political, economic, and military circles which as an intricate set of overlapping cliques share decisions having at least national consequences. In so far as national events are decided, the power elite are those who decide them. — C. Wright Mills
I'm not going to do anything that heralds in a Tory government. — Nicola Sturgeon
It is our great collective misfortune that the scientific community made its decisive diagnosis of the climate threat at the precise moment when an elite minority was enjoying more unfettered political, cultural, and intellectual power than at any point since the 1920s. — Naomi Klein
But particularly when the media profess to strive toward objectivity, gatekeepers play a crucial role in helping people navigate the news to make educated political decisions. — Eric Alterman
Well, I wouldn't say that this experience had any influence on my decision to do this film about Andy, because Andy was apolitical. Andy was never political. — Milos Forman
No matter what name we give it or how we judge it, a candidate's character is central to political reporting because it is central to a citizen's decision in voting. — Roger Mudd
President Obama has a strong record of doing what is best for America and Florida, and he built it by spending more time worrying about what his decisions would mean for the people than for his political fortunes. — Charlie Crist
When women turn on women, and take cheap shots at their decisions purely to score political points it serves as proof that feminism, as a movement, is dead and no longer relevant or credible. — S. E. Cupp
People often say that, in a democracy, decisions are made by a majority of the people. Of course, that is not true. Decisions are made by a majority of those who make themselves heard and who vote - a very different thing. — Walter Judd
Important Decisions Quotes
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
I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude. It is more important than my past, my education, my bankroll, my successes or failures, fame or pain, what other people think of me or say about me, my circumstances, or my position. — Charles R. Swindoll
We have a demon, we have an angel inside, within our souls, and you just play with it, and sometimes the evil part of you wins the battle, in a very important decision, or in a bedtime, with your lover. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. — Demian Bichir
No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently. — Agnes De Mille
Picking the direction is far more important than what force you apply. — Naval Ravikant
One of the most important things that I have learned in my 57 years is that life is all about choices. On every journey you take, you face choices. At every fork in the road, you make a choice. And it is those decisions that shape our lives. — Mike DeWine
I think what's important for kids to know is that your decisions here on earth matter, your behavior matters and how you treat other people matters. — Matt Damon
While microeconomics has focused on transactions between individuals, and macroeconomics on the role of government in the economy, the reality is that the most important economic decisions to any individual’s well-being are the ones they conduct in their trade-offs with their future self. — Saifedean Ammous
Refusing to gossip is a beautiful decision to make. It not only creates richer friendships but, more importantly, it makes our relationship with the Lord more authentic and believable. We honor God when we honor each other. — Lysa TerKeurst
In an age of infinite leverage, judgement is the most important skill. — Naval Ravikant
Personal Decisions Quotes
I can’t hate people for making judgment on me, or making a decision of liking me or not liking me. All I can do is try to better as a person. And I’m good with knowing everything isn’t always going to be perfect. — Chris Brown
To the Muslim woman, the hijab provides a sense of empowerment. It is a personal decision to dress modestly according to the command of a genderless Creator; to assert pride in self, and embrace one's faith openly, with independence and courageous conviction. — Randa Abdel-Fattah
Take responsibility for your last bad decision, and then let it go. Don't blame others or make excuses for yourself. — Deepak Chopra
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
Forgiveness is above all a personal choice, a decision of the heart to go against the natural instinct to pay back evil with evil. — Pope John Paul II
Your life can be beautiful, but it starts with a decision to move forward. — Tom Bilyeu
Never blame another person for your personal choices - you are still the one who must live out the consequences of your choices. — Caroline Myss
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
I think that everyone has an equal right to play and I think we've been supportive of that. With the Olympics and the controversy around that I think those decisions and those laws aren't necessarily something that I agree with personally ... their laws and their views. — Sidney Crosby
If we look on idly, heaven and earth will never be joined. To join heaven and earth, some decisive deed of purity is necessary. To accomplish so resolute an action, you have to stake your life, giving no thought to personal gain or loss. — Yukio Mishima
Big Decisions 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
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
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
One of the big lessons from behavioral economics is that we make decisions as a function of the environment that we're in. — Dan Ariely
No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair. — George S. Patton
Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline. — James C. Collins
Among the social networks, LinkedIn can be one of the most useful when it comes to cultivating critical, lucrative business opportunities, since it has a high concentration of business decision-makers. — Lewis Howes
The advantages of having decisions made by groups are often lost because of powerful psychological pressures that arise when the members work closely together, share the same set of values and, above all, face a crisis situation that puts everyone under intense stress — Irving Janis
A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them. — Henry Kravis
Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently. — William Arthur Ward
Watch the costs and the profits will take care of themselves. — Andrew Carnegie
Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things. — Miyamoto Musashi
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
Choices And Decisions Quotes
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
Everything you do is based on the choices you make. It's not your parents, your past relationships, your job, the economy, the weather, an argument or your age that is to blame. You and only you are responsible for every decision and choice you make. Period. — Wayne Dyer
When I don't make a decision, it's not that I don't think about it. I think about it and make a decision not to make a decision. — P. V. Narasimha Rao
When we repeat 1 percent errors, day after day, by replicating poor decisions, duplicating tiny mistakes, and rationalizing little excuses, our small choices compound into toxic results. — James Clear
The best thing you can do is follow your dreams — The Rev
Each day you're presented with a choice. You can either keep your greatness hidden under a pile of fears, regrets, and excuses, or you can let it out. So the best way to begin unlocking inner greatness is to make a conscious choice to live out the rest of today, with the best you. — Lewis Howes
Too much choice has many underappreciated downsides that affect our health and happiness. Every choice you make requires cognitive effort, takes time and can potentially add to your stress load. Eliminating unnecessary choice from your life can be transformative. — Rangan Chatterjee
Every second we choose to nourish ourselves in a way that supports or depletes our lives, and to think and speak about other people in a way that is honoring or dishonoring. What choice are you going to make today. — Gregg Braden
We would very much like to see Iran take a position as a responsible leader that doesn't intimidate or threaten or scare its neighbors and others. But the choice is really up to Iran and we're going to keep working to try to come out with the right decision. — Hillary Clinton
Migration - whether emigration or return - at the micro level is an individual choice, and government both at the Centre and the states have role only to facilitate the decision of the individuals. — Vayalar Ravi
Quick Decisions Quotes
Those who play badminton well take decisions quickly. — Dmitry Medvedev
We weren’t afraid to make changes. We weren’t afraid to fail. We tried to do things very cheaply, very quickly. And if it wasn’t working, we would kill it quickly. It meant making quick decisions, fixing things that were broken and scaling things that worked. — Jared Kushner
Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly. — Napoleon Hill
It doesn’t matter if it is quick if it’s the wrong answer. — Michael Saylor
The percentage of mistakes in quick decisions is no greater than in long-drawn-out vacillations, and the effect of decisiveness itself makes things go and creates confidence. — Anne O'Hare McCormick
To put your life in danger from time to time... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities. — Nevil Shute
We have been quick to assume rights to use water but slow to recognize obligations to preserve and protect it... In short, we need a water ethic-a guide to right conduct in the face of complex decisions about natural systems we do not and cannot fully understand. — Sandra Postel
We associate leadership with decisiveness. That perception of leadership pushes people to make decisions fairly quickly, lest they be seen as dithering and indecisive. — Daniel Kahneman
Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. — Robert H. Schuller
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
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
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
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
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
A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. — Grantland Rice
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