Quote: Decisiveness is often the art of timely cruelty. Author: Henri Becquerel 1852-1908, French Physicist
Quote: When you come to a fork in the road, take it. Author: Yogi Berra 1925-, American Baseball Player
Quote: Where there is no counsel, the people perish; but in the multitude of counselors there is safety. [Proverbs 29:18; 11:14] Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Quote: Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide. Author: Napoleon Bonaparte 1769-1821, French General, Emperor
Quote: We are given one life, and the decision is our whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live. Author: Omar Nelson Bradley 1893-1981, American General
Quote: Most of our executives make very sound decisions. The trouble is many of them have turned out not to have been right. Author: Donald Bullock American Business Trainer
Quote: Shelving hard decisions is the least ethical course. Author: Adrian Cadbury American Business Executive
Quote: Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions. Author: James Callaghan British Prime Minister
Quote: 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? Author: Elias Canetti 1905-, Austrian Novelist, Philosopher
Quote: Indecision and delays are the parents of failure. Author: George Canning 1770-1827, British Statesman
Quote: The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong. Author: Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author
Quote: They are decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent. Author: Winston Churchill 1874-1965, British Statesman, Prime Minister
Quote: Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness or oppose with firmness. Author: Charles Caleb Colton 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer
Quote: 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. Author: Stephen R. Covey American Speaker, Trainer, Author of ''The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People''
Quote: Every decision you make is a mistake. Author: Edward Dahlberg 1900-1977, American Author, Critic
Quote: Everything starts with yourself -- with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life. I tell kids that it's a cruel world, and that the world will bend them either left or right, and it's up to them to decide which way to bend. Author: Tony Dorsett 1954-, American Football Player
Quote: Decision making is the specific executive task. Author: Peter F. Drucker 1909-, American Management Consultant, Author
Quote: Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance. Author: John Dryden 1631-1700, British Poet, Dramatist, Critic
Quote: 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. Author: John Foster Dulles 1888-1959, American Republican Secretary of State
Quote: Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made. Author: Wayne Dyer 1940-, American Psychotherapist, Author, Lecturer
Quote: The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice! Author: Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890-1969, Thirty-fourth President of the USA
Quote: How could a man be satisfied with a decision between such alternatives and under such circumstances? No more than he can be satisfied with his hat, which he's chosen from among such shapes as the resources of the age offer him, wearing it at best with a resignation which is chiefly supported by comparison. Author: George Eliot 1819-1880, British Novelist
Quote: Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: Business leaders often get credit for the successful decisions that were forced on them. Author: Oliver A. Fick American Environmental Service Manager
Quote: A man without decision can never be said to belong to himself. Author: John W. Foster 1770-1843, British Clergyman, Essayist
Quote: I hate to see things done by halves. If it be right, do it boldly, if it be wrong leave it undone. Author: Bernard Gilpin
Quote: Make decisions from the heart and use your head to make it work out. Author: Sir Girad
Quote: When possible make the decisions now, even if action is in the future. A reviewed decision usually is better than one reached at the last moment. Author: William B. Given
Quote: The person who in shaky times also wavers only increases the evil, but the person of firm decision fashions the universe. Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
Quote: Decision is a sharp knife that cuts or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was clean and straight; indecision, a dull one that hacks and tears and leaves ragged edges behind it. Author: Gordon Graham
Quote: Indecision is the seedling of fear. Author: Napoleon Hill 1883-1970, American Speaker, Motivational Writer, ''Think and Grow Rich''
Quote: It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide what to do. Author: Elbert Hubbard 1859-1915, American Author, Publisher
Quote: The lives of the best of us are spent in choosing between evils. Author: Junius 1769-1771, Anonymous British Letter Writer
Quote: A decision without the pressure of consequence is hardly a decision at all. Author: Eric Langmuir.
Quote: I determined never to stop until I had come to the end and achieved my purpose. Author: David Livingstone 1813-1873, British Missionary, Explorer
Quote: Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side. Author: James Russell Lowell 1819-1891, American Poet, Critic, Editor
Quote: In making our decisions, we must use the brains that God has given us. But we must also use our hearts which He also gave us. A man who has not learned to say, ''No'' --who is not resolved that he will take God's way, in spite of every dog that can bay or bark at him, in spite of every silvery choice that woos him aside--will be a weak and a wretched man till he dies. Author: Alexander Maclaren 1826-1910, British Preacher
Quote: Decide promptly, but never give any reasons. Your decisions may be right, but your reasons are sure to be wrong. Author: Lord Mansfield 1867-1915, British Artist, Author
Quote: 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. Author: T. Boone Pickens American Businessman, Chairman of Mesa Petroleum
Quote: All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last. Author: Marcel Proust 1871-1922, French Novelist
Quote: Impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, we make our irrevocable decisions Author: Marcel Proust 1871-1922, French Novelist
Quote: A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. Author: Chinese Proverb Sayings of Chinese Origin
Quote: The difference is wide that sheets will not decide. Author: English Proverb Sayings of British Origin
Quote: No answer is also an answer. Author: German Proverb Sayings of German Origin
Quote: 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. Author: Anthony Robbins 1960-, American Author, Speaker, Peak Performance Expert / Consultant
Quote: It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped. Author: Anthony Robbins 1960-, American Author, Speaker, Peak Performance Expert / Consultant
Quote: 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. Author: Anthony Robbins 1960-, American Author, Speaker, Peak Performance Expert / Consultant
Quote: Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision. Author: Anthony Robbins 1960-, American Author, Speaker, Peak Performance Expert / Consultant
Quote: You've got to know when to hold em, know when to fold em know when to walk away, know when to run. Author: Kenny Rogers American Country Singer, Actor
Quote: 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. Author: Jim Rohn American Businessman, Author, Speaker, Philosopher
Quote: Somewhere along the line of development we discover what we really are, and then we make our real decision for which we are responsible. Make that decision primarily for yourself because you can never really live anyone else's life, not even your own child's. Author: Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962, American First Lady, Columnist, Lecturer, Humanitarian
Quote: In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. Author: Theodore Roosevelt 1858-1919, Twenty-sixth President of the USA
Quote: Do not choose to be wrong for the sake of being different. Author: Lord Samuel
Quote: It is only in our decisions that we are important. Author: Jean-Paul Sartre 1905-1980, French Writer, Philosopher
Quote: The roads we take are more important than the goals we announce. Decisions determine destiny. Author: Frederick Speakman
Quote: The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want. Author: Ben Stein American Professor, Writer
Quote: 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. Author: Elizabeth Stone
Quote: 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.] Author: Sherry Stringfield 1967-, American Actress
Quote: The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim. Author: Sun Tzu c 400-430 bc, Chinese Military Strategist, Author of ''Art of War''
Quote: That should be considered long which can be decided but once. Author: Publilius Syrus 1st Century BC, Roman Writer
Quote: Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all. Author: Brian Tracy American Trainer, Speaker, Author, Businessman
Quote: Whenever I make a bum decision, I go out and make another one. Author: Harry S. Truman 1884-1972, Thirty-third President of the USA
Quote: If you've made up your mind you can do something, you're absolutely right. If you've made up your mind you can't do something, you're absolutely right. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: If you're already in a hole, it's no use to continue digging. Author: Roy W. Walters
Quote: We have a choice: to plow new ground or let the weeds grow. Author: Jonathan Westover
Quote: 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. Author: Edith Wharton 1862-1937, American Author