Decisions Quotes

When I face an issue of great import that cleaves both constituents and colleagues, I always take the same approach. I engage in deep deliberation and quiet contemplation. I wait to the last available minute and then I always vote with the losers. Because, my friend, the winners never remember and the losers never forget.

Thomas H. Kean

It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

Jim Rohn

I hate to see things done by halves. If it be right, do it boldly, if it be wrong leave it undone.

Bernard Gilpin

If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, then what am I? And if not now, when?

Rabbi Hillel, recorded in Pirkei

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!

Dwight D Eisenhower

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

Aneurin Bevan

Indecision is like a stepchild: if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water.

African Proverb

I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I --I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost, Road Not Taken, Th

Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because we are driven into a corner and must say something.

Frank Crane, Essays

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

A. C. Benson

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.

Sigmund Freud

Once you have made up your mind, stick to it; there is no longer any 'if' or 'but'.

Napoleon Bonaparte

He felt that he was still groping in the dark; he had chosen his path but kept looking back, wondering whether he had misread the signs, whether he should not have taken the other way.

J.K. Rowling

In addition to self-awareness, imagination and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment-independent will-that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.

Stephen Covey

It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.

Marianne Moore

The native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought; and enterprises of great pitch and moment, With this regard, their currents turn awry, and lose the name of action.

William Shakespeare

Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions.

James Callaghan

...you must be careful never to allow doubt to paralyze you. always take the decisions you need to take, even if you're not sure you're doing the right thing. You'll never go wrong if, when you make a decision, you keep in mind an old German proverb: 'The devil is in the detail.' Remember that proverb and you'll always be able to turn a wrong decision into a right one.

Paulo Coelho

To do nothing is also a good remedy.

Hippocrates

People don't want to know that as a woman, I made my own decision as a woman to leave, It has to be I was so burnt out or in love. On her decision to quit E.R.

Sherry Stringfield