Decisions Quotes

It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

A person has three choices in life. You can swim against the tide and get exhausted, or you can tread water and let the tide sweep you away, or you can swim with the tide, and let it take you where it wants you to go.

A pessimist, confronted with two bad choices, chooses both.

Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.

Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains.

Our choices add up; each one influences others, and cumulatively a series of delightful short-term choices can leave us much worse off in the long run.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Check your ego at the door and check your gut instead. Every right decision I have ever made has come from my gut. Every wrong decision I've made was the result of me not listening to the greater voice of myself

If it doesn't feel right, don't do it. That's the lesson. That lesson alone, will save you a lot of grief. Even doubt means don't.

When you don't know what to do, get still. Get very still until you do know what to do.

When yu' can't have why you choose, yu' just choose what you have.

When I make up my mind to do a thing it stays made up.

When it is not necessary to make a decision, it is necessary not to make a decision.

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.

We must give lengthy deliberation to what has to be decided once and for all.

Give no decision till both sides thou'st heard.

A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.

The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.

When we are debating an issue, loyalty means giving me your honest opinion, whether you think I'll like it or not. Disagreement, at this stage, stimulates me. But once a decision has been made, the debate ends. From that point on, loyalty means executing the decision as if it were your own.

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead.

Ever notice that 'what the hell' is always the right decision?

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.

Decisions are made by those who show up.

Every great decision creates ripples - like a huge boulder dropped in a lake. The ripples merge, rebound off the banks in unforseeable ways. The heavier the decision, the larger the waves, the more uncertain the consequences.

It is always thus, impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, that we make our irrevocable decisions.