Decisions Quotes

Life is made up of chances to make choices, decisions of what you wish to do; the accumulated result of those choices is what you call your life.

Steven Redhead

If we actually thought about every decision we made, we'd be paralyzed ... You have to decide which decisions you're actually going to make, and then you have to let the rest of them go.

David Levithan

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness or oppose with firmness.

Charles Caleb Colton

Decision making is the specific executive task.

Peter Drucker

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.

T. Boone Pickens

Sometimes the fullness of life comes in doing things that are only understood by you, God, and the special people God has put in your life that truly love your for you not for what you do, but for who you are.

Lacey Sturm

The answer is that there is no good answer. So as parents, as doctors, as judges, and as a society, we fumble through and make decisions that allow us to sleep at night--because morals are more important than ethics, and love is more important than law.

Jodi Picoult

The aspirations of democracy are based on the notion of an informed citizenry, capable of making wise decisions. The choices we are asked to make become increasingly complex. They require the longer-term thinking and greater tolerance for ambiguity that science fosters. The new economy is predicated on a continuous pipeline of scientific and technological innovation. It can not exist without workers and consumers who are mathematically and scientifically literate.

Ann Druyan

Before you decide if someone is beautiful close your eyes and listen.

Evette Carter

With the need for the self in the time of another / I left my seaport grim and dear / knowing good work could be made / in the state governed by both Hope and Despair.

Roman Payne

Most of life's actions are within our reach, but decisions take willpower.

Robert McKee

Every day you face two important decisions: what effect you want your speech and actions to have on the world around you, and what impressions and vibrations you want to be receptive to.

Kalashatra Govinda

In my dream I drove an RV off a cliff, because rather than hit the brakes or steer to safety, I was more concerned with either changing the radio station or turning the volume all the way down. They were playing Lady Gaga.?

Jarod Kintz

Crying is all right in its own way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.

C.S. Lewis

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?

Elias Canetti

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement; and it is better to be driven out of your senses with thinking which of two things you ought to do than to do nothing whatever, and be utterly uninteresting to all the world.

Margaret Oliphant

The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.

Maimonides

We have a choice: to plow new ground or let the weeds grow.

Jonathan Westover

When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.

Edith Wharton