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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.
James Russell Lowell
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.
John Foster Dulles
Business leaders often get credit for the successful decisions that were forced on them.
Oliver A. Fick
Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.
Thomas Henry Huxley
He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship.
Kenneth Baker
The great decisions of human life usually have far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness. The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no universal recipe for living. Each of us carries his own life-form within him--an irrational form which no other can outbid.
Carl Gustav Jung, The Aims of Ps
In a minute there is time for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot
I determined never to stop until I had come to the end and achieved my purpose.
David Livingstone
A decision without the pressure of consequence is hardly a decision at all.
Eric Langmuir.
Making a decision to have a child -- it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.
Elizabeth Stone
Shelving hard decisions is the least ethical course.
Adrian Cadbury
I also remember the moment my life changed, the moment I finally said, I've had it! I know I'm much more than I'm demonstrating mentally, emotionally, and physically in my life. I made a decision in that moment which was to alter my life forever. I decided to change virtually every aspect of my life. I decided I would never again settle for less than I can be.
Anthony Robbins
You must know that in any moment a decision you make can change the course of your life forever: the very next person stand behind in line or sit next to on an airplane, the very next phone call you make or receive, the very next movie you see or book you read or page you turn could be the one single thing that causes the floodgates to open, and all of the things that you've been waiting for to fall into place.
Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision.
Impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, we make our irrevocable decisions.
Marcel Proust
Don't stand shivering upon the bank; plunge in at once, and have it over.
Sam Slick
Do not choose to be wrong for the sake of being different.
Lord Samuel
You need an infinite stretch of time ahead of you to start to think, infinite energy to make the smallest decision. The world is getting denser. The immense number of useless projects is bewildering. Too many things have to be put in to balance up an uncertain scale. You can't disappear anymore. You die in a state of total indecision.
Jean Baudrillard
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for whom the lighting of every cigar, the drinking of every cup, the time of rising and going to bed every day, and the beginning of every bit of work, are subjects of express volitional deliberation.
William James
What are the convulsions of a city in comparison with the insurrections of the soul? Man is a depth still greater than the people. Jean Valjean at that very moment was the prey of a terrible upheaval. Every sort of gulf had opened again within him. He als
Victor Hugo
