Decision Quotes
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Many of life's circumstances are created by three basic choices: the disciplines you choose to keep, the people you chose to be with, and the laws you choose to obey. (Quote by - Charles Millhuff)
It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves. (Quote by - Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)
The soul of dispatch is decision. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
Rules of society are nothing; one's conscience is the umpire. (Quote by - Madame Dudevant)
You must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. (Quote by - Ursula K. LeGuin)
You've got a lot of choices. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you're not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice. (Quote by - Steven D. Woodhull)
Often greater risk is involved in postponement than in making a wrong decision. (Quote by - Harry A. Hopf)
If you do everything you should do, and do not do anything you should not do, you will, according to the best available statistics, live exactly eighteen hours longer than you would otherwise. (Quote by - Dr. Logain Clendening)
Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will. (Quote by - Jawaharlal Nehru)
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. (Quote by - Bill W.)
One must either accept some theory or else believe one's own instinct or follow the world's opinion. (Quote by - Gertrude Stein)
The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's own appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship. (Quote by - Amelia Earhart)
Decisions, particularly important ones, have always made me sleepy, perhaps because I know that I will have to make them by instinct, and thinking things out is only what other people tell me I should do. (Quote by - Lillian Hellman)
Between two stools one sits on the ground. (Quote by - French proverb)
In the three years I played ball, we won six, lost seventeen and tied two. Some statistician ... calculated that we won 75 percent of the games we didn't lose. (Quote by - Roger M. Blough)
No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time. (Quote by - Henry Kissinger)
Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it. (Quote by - Pat Riley)
Nothing at all will be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
No man who has not sat in the assemblies of men can know the light, odd and uncertain ways in which decisions are often arrived at. (Quote by - Sir Arthur Helps)
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last. (Quote by - Marcel Proust)
Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth. (Quote by - Gene Fowler)
Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
It is the heart always that sees before the head can see. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
A decision is an action you must take when you have information so incomplete that the answer does not suggest itself. (Quote by - Arthur Radford)
If you think too long, you think wrong. (Quote by - Jim Kaat)
A wiser rule would be to make up your mind soberly what you want, peace or war, and then to get ready for what you want; for what we prepare for is what we shall get. (Quote by - William Graham Sumner)
Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct. (Quote by - Jane Austen)
Everything is something you decide to do, and there is nothing you have to do. (Quote by - Denis Waitley )
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor the best opportunities; they will never come. (Quote by - Janet Erskine Stuart)
In case of doubt, decide in favor of what is correct. (Quote by - Karl Kraus)
Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide ... And the choice goes by forever t'wixt that darkness and that light. (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)
In a minute there is time for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. (Quote by - T.S. Eliot)
I get a little angry about this highhanded scrapping of the look of things. What else have we to go by? How else can the average person form an opinion of a girl's sense of values or even of her chastity except by the looks of her conduct? (Quote by - Margaret Culkin Banning)
Some persons are very decisive when it comes to avoiding decisions. (Quote by - Brendan Francis)
There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return. (Quote by - Dag Hammarskjold)
You are the one who must choose your place. (Quote by - James Lane Allen)
I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side. (Quote by - Katharine Butler Hathaway)
A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anybody to serve on a committee. (Quote by - Fletcher Knebel)
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable, in retrospect. (Quote by - Robert Louis Stevenson)
The last, if not the greatest, of the human freedoms: to choose their own attitude in any given circumstance. (Quote by - Bruno Bettelheim)
In forty hours I shall be in battle, with little information, and on the spur of the moment will have to make the most momentous decisions. But I believe that one's spirit enlarges with responsibility and that, with God's help, I shall make them, and make them right. (Quote by - General George S. Patton)
The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life. (Quote by - George Eliot)
We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves. (Quote by - Thomas Merton)
Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision. (Quote by - Anthony Robbins)
Once the "what" is decided, the "how" always follows. We must not make the "how" an excuse for not facing and accepting the "what." (Quote by - Pearl S. Buck)
Optimism is an intellectual choice. (Quote by - Diana Schneider)
There is only one answer to destruc-tiveness and that is creativity. (Quote by - Sylvia Ashton-Warner)
I hate to see things done by halves. If it be right, do it boldly,--if it be wrong leave it undone. (Quote by - Bernard Gilpin)
Decide which is the line of conduct that presents the fewest drawbacks and then follow it out as being the best one, because one never finds anything perfectly pure and unmixed, or exempt from danger. (Quote by - Niccolo Machiavelli)
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. (Quote by - Anne O'Hare McCormick)
A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. (Quote by - Chinese Proverb)
The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes a wrong one ... the more active and swift the latter is, the further he will go astray. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously. (Quote by - Henry Kissinger)
A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of sudden impulse and accident than of that reason of which we so much boast. (Quote by - Peter Cooper)
Wisdom consists in being able to distinguish among dangers and make a choice of the least harmful. (Quote by - Niccolo Machiavelli)
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. (Quote by - George Eliot)
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are. (Quote by - Roy Disney)
If decisions were a choice between alternatives, decisions would come easy. Decision is the selection and formulation of alternatives. (Quote by - Kenneth Burke)
He who has a choice has trouble. (Quote by - Dutch proverb)
When possible make the decisions now, even if action is in the future. A revised decision usually is better than one reached at the last moment. (Quote by - William B. Given)
We spend our days in deliberating, and we end them without coming to any resolve. (Quote by - L'Estrange)
Form the habit of making decisions when your spirit is fresh ... to let dark moods lead is like choosing cowards to command armies. (Quote by - Charles Horton Cooley)
No one knows what he can to do until he tries. (Quote by - Publilius Syrus)
To know just what has do be done, then to do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life. (Quote by - Sir William Osier)
I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk. (Quote by - Dr. Joyce Brothers)
Somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision. (Quote by - Eleanor Roosevelt)
The mania of thinking renders one unfit for every activity. (Quote by - Anatole France)
We have a choice: to plow new ground or let the weeds grow. (Quote by - Jonathan Westover)
No matter how lovesick a woman is, she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along. (Quote by - Dr. Joyce Brothers)
When you cannot make up your mind between two evenly balanced courses of action, choose the bolder. (Quote by - W. J. Slim)
As a man thinketh, so is he, and as a man chooseth, so is he. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Of two evils, choose the prettier. (Quote by - Carolyn Wells)
The tendency of modern science is to reduce proof to absurdity by continually reducing absurdity to proof. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do. (Quote by - Jose Ortega)
We don't have enough time to premeditate all our actions. (Quote by - Vauvenargues)
The last of the human freedoms: to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. (Quote by - Viktor Frankl)
You wouldn't want to be caught wearing cheap perfume, would you? Then why do you want to wear cheap perfume on your conduct? (Quote by - Margaret Culkin Banning)
Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it. (Quote by - George Eliot)
A man without decision can never be said to belong to himself; he is as a wave of the sea, or a feather in the air which every breeze blows about. (Quote by - John Foster)
Once a decision was made, I did not worry about it afterward. (Quote by - Harry S. Truman)
She knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit, rather than the brain, was a fatal flaw, the seed of death. (Quote by - Anne Perry)
Deliberation often loses a good chance. (Quote by - Latin proverb)
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please-you can never have both. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
It is always thus, impaled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, that we make our irrevocable decisions. (Quote by - Marcel Proust)
Men and women everywhere must exercise deliberate selection to live wisely. (Quote by - Robert Grant)
The roads we take are more important than the goals we announce. Decisions determine destiny. (Quote by - Frederick Speakman)
Here's a rule I recommend. Never practice two vices at once. (Quote by - Tallulah Bankhead)
Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing. (Quote by - William Feather)
Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the percentage people, you would be perfectly comfortable. (Quote by - Bobby Bragan)
Consider what you think justice requires, and decide accordingly. But never give your reasons; for your judgment will probably be right, but your reasons will certainly be wrong. (Quote by - Lord Mansfield)
Of all paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do. To find this path, and walk in it, is the one thing needful for him. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
Many persons of high intelligence have notoriously poor judgement. (Quote by - Sydney J. Harris)
How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt? (Quote by - Harry S. Truman)
Both choices are painful, but only one is therapeutic. (Quote by - Albert M. Wells)
After a battle is over people talk a lot about how decisions were methodically reached, but actually there's always a hell of a lot of groping around. (Quote by - Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher)
He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses. (Quote by - Horace)
I learn by going where I have to go. (Quote by - Theodore Roethke)
We have resolved to endure the unendurable and suffer what is insufferable. (Quote by - Emperor Hirohito)
A power greater than any human being helped make this decision. (Quote by - Herbert J. Steifel)
Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)
Continually one faces the horrible matter of making decisions. The solution ... is, as far as possible, to avoid conscious rational decisions and choices; simply to do what you find yourself doing; to float in the great current of life with as little friction as possible; to allow things to settle themselves, as indeed they do with the most infallible certainty. (Quote by - Christopher Morley)
Imagination took the reins, and Reason, slow-paced, though surefooted, was unequal to a race with so eccentric and flighty a companion. (Quote by - Fanny Burney)
No answer is also an answer. (Quote by - German Proverb)
Life is the sum of all your choices. (Quote by - Albert Camus)
Time has told me less than I need to know. (Quote by - Gwen Harwood)
Better to be without logic than without feeling. (Quote by - Charlotte Bronte)
Statistics are no substitute for judgement. (Quote by - Henry Clay)
What I emphasize is for people to make choices based not on fear, but on what really gives them a sense of fulfillment. (Quote by - Pauline Rose Chance)
Decision is a sharp knife that cuts clean and straight; indecision, a dull one that hacks and tears and leaves ragged edges behind it. (Quote by - Gordon Graham)
Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are. (Quote by - George Eliot)
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. (Quote by - Herbert B. Prochnow)
Choice of attention ... is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be. (Quote by - W. H. Auden)
Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence. (Quote by - John Henry Cardinal Newman)
We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours. (Quote by - Dag Hammarskjold)
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. (Quote by - William Jennings Bryan)
Logic pervades the world; the limits of the world are also the limits of logic. (Quote by - Ludwig Wittgenstein)
The difficulty of life is in the choice. (Quote by - George Moore)
Decisions are the endless uncertainties of life that we'll not know if theyre right until the very end, so do the best you can and hope its right. (Quote by - Lily Collins)
History is a stern judge. (Quote by - Svetlana Alliluyeva)
You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now. (Quote by - Joan Baez)
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. (Quote by - William James)
Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be; custom will soon render it easy and agreeable. (Quote by - Pythagoras)
You can only predict things after they've happened. (Quote by - Eugene Ionesco)
Man does not simply exist, but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment. (Quote by - Viktor Frankl)
How dangerous can false reasoning prove! (Quote by - Sophocles)
A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved. (Quote by - Dorothea Brande)
Alternatives, and particularly desirable alternatives, grow only on imaginary trees. (Quote by - Saul Bellow)
If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street. (Quote by - Ben Nicholas)
Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success. (Quote by - B. C. Forbes)
I couldn't claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil, but when you descend into hell you have to be very careful. (Quote by - Kathleen Raine)
Decisions determine destiny. (Quote by - Frederick Speakman)
Not all of your decisions will be correct. None of us is perfect. But if you get into the habit of making decisions, experience will develop your judgment to a point where more and more of your decisions will be right. After all, it is better to be right 51 percent of the time and get something done, than it is to get nothing done because you fear to reach a decision. (Quote by - H. W. Andrews)
One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do. (Quote by - Arthur Christopher Benson)
Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
You cannot serve God and Mammon. (Quote by - Bible)
Each person has a literature inside them. But when people lose language, when they have to experiment with putting their thoughts together on the spot-that's what I love most. That's where character lives. (Quote by - Anna Deavere Smith)
There is no data on the future. (Quote by - Laurel Cutler)
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than to polish. (Quote by - Anne Bradstreet)
Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable. (Quote by - Laurence J. Peter)
Reconsider, v. To seek a justification for a decision already made. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
The most important fact about Spaceship Earth: an instruction book didn't come with it. (Quote by - R. Buckminster Fuller)
Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence. (Quote by - Joseph Wood Krutch)
No question is ever settled until it is settled right. (Quote by - Ella Wheeler Wilcox)
Although every man believes that his decisions and resolutions involve the most multifarious factors, in reality they are mere oscillation between flight and longing. (Quote by - Herman Broch)
Full maturity ... is achieved by realizing that you have choices to make. (Quote by - Angela Barron McBride)
In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relation of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
What must be, shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles is little more than choice to him that is willing. (Quote by - Marcus Annaeus Seneca)
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. (Quote by - Jonathan Kozel)
When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice. (Quote by - William James)
The refusal to choose is a form of choice; disbelief is a form of belief. (Quote by - Frank Barron)
A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one. (Quote by - Rita Mae Brown)
In not making the decision, you've made one. Not doing something is the same as doing it. (Quote by - Ivan Bloch)
Necessity relieves us from the embarrassment of choice. (Quote by - Vauvenargues)
It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)
No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently. (Quote by - Agnes de Mille)
The opportunity is often lost by deliberating. (Quote by - Publilius Syrus)
It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe. (Quote by - Anne Bronte)
When faith is supported by facts or by logic it ceases to be faith. (Quote by - Edith Hamilton)
Decisions become easier when your will to please God outweighs your will to please the world. (Quote by - Anso Coetzer)
The Pilgrims didn't have any experience when they landed here. Hell, if experience was that important, we'd never have anybody walking on the moon. (Quote by - Doug Rader)
Man is a reasoning, rather than a reasonable, animal. (Quote by - Alexander Hamilton)
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide. (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)
The moment a question comes to your mind, see yourself mentally taking hold of it and disposing of it. In that moment... you learn to become the decider and not the vacillator. Thus you build character. (Quote by - H. Van Anderson)
Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them, and then make our plans with confidence. (Quote by - Henry Ford)
When confronted with two courses of action I jot down on a piece of paper all the arguments in favor of each one, then on the opposite side I write the arguments against each one. Then by weighing the arguments pro and con and cancelling them out, one against the other, I take the course indicated by what remains. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
The will to be totally rational is the will to be made out of glass and steel: and to use others as if they were glass and steel. (Quote by - Marge Piercy)
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. (Quote by - Edith Wharton)
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? (Quote by - Elias Canetti)
One faces the future with one's past. (Quote by - Pearl S. Buck)
Decision and determination are the engineer and fireman of our train to opportunity and success. (Quote by - Burt Lawlor)
The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn. (Quote by - David Russell)
He who reflects too much will achieve little. (Quote by - J. C. F. von Schiller)
False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse. (Quote by - Horace Mann)
Life is just a series of trying to make up your mind. (Quote by - Timothy Fuller)
Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for the training of a mere beginner. (Quote by - Lewis Mumford)
Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them. (Quote by - Laurence J. Peter)
Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant. (Quote by - Anthony Robbins)
The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
Guess if you can, choose if you dare. (Quote by - Pierre Corneille)
A decision made at night may be changed in the morning. (Quote by - Samoan Proverb)
Not to decide is to decide. (Quote by - Harvey Cox)
The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live. (Quote by - Flora Whittemore)
Reason, with most people, means their own opinions. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision. (Quote by - Peter Drucker)
A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards. (Quote by - Karl Kraus)
The difference between weakness and wickedness is much less than people suppose; and the consequences are nearly always the same. (Quote by - Lady Marguerite Blessington)
Our danger is not too few, but too many options ... to be puzzled by innumerable alternatives. (Quote by - Sir Richard Livingstone)
A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied. (Quote by - Henri Frederic Amiel)
Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature. (Quote by - Sigmund Freud)
You decide you'll wait for your pitch. Then as the ball starts toward the plate, you think about your stance. And then you think about your swing. And then you realize that the ball that went past you for a strike was your pitch. (Quote by - Bobby Murcer)
There is one quality more important than know-how.... This is know-how by which we determine not only how to accomplish our purposes, but what our purposes are to be. (Quote by - Norbert Weiner)
Choices are the hinges of destiny. (Quote by - Edwin Markham)
