As per a subscriber request, here’s a few good quotes about decisions.
1) Quick decisions are unsafe decisions. -Sophocles
2) The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you cannot accept regret. -Henri Frederic Amiel
3) When, against one’s will, one is high pressured into making a hurried decision, the best answer is always No, because No is more easily changed to Yes, than Yes is changed to No. -Charles E. Nielson
4) Nothing can be more destructive to vigor of action than protracted, anxious fluctuation, through resolutions adopted, rejected, resumed, and suspended, and nothing causes a greater expense of feeling. A man without decision can never be said to belong to himself; he is as a wave of the sea, or a feather in the air which every breeze blows about as it listeth. -John Foster
5) The percentage of mistakes in quick decisions is no greater than in long-drawn-out vacillations, and the effect of decisiveness itself makes things go and creates confidence. -Anne O’Hare McCormick
6) I have to be wrong a certain number of times in order to be right a certain number of times. However, in order to be either, I must first make a decision. -Frank N. Giampietro
7) Decision is a sharp knife that cuts clean and straight; indecision, a dull one that hacks and tears and leaves ragged edges behind it. -Gordon Graham
8) I hate to see things done by halves. If it be right, do it boldly; if it be wrong leave it undone. -Gilpin
9) The roads we take are more important than the goals we announce. Decisions determine destiny. -Frederick Speakman
10) Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide. -Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
11) To know just what has do be done, then to do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life. -Sir William Osler (1849-1919)
12) Indecision and delays are the parents of failure. -George Canning (1770-1827)
13) Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength. -Chinese Proverb
14) I determined never to stop until I had come to the end and achieved my purpose. -David Livingstone (1813-1873)
15) Form the habit of making decisions when your spirit is fresh…to let dark moods lead is like choosing cowards to command armies. -Charles Horton Cooley (1864-1929)
16) We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves. -Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
17) There is a time when we must firmly choose the course we will follow, or the relentless drift of events will make the decision for us. -Herbert Prochnow
18) It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide what to do. -Elbert Hubbard (1859-1915)
19) No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently. -Agnes De Mille (1905-1993)
20) Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing. -William Feather
21) Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision. -Anthony Robbins
22) Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
There you have it. Hope these “decisions quotes” help make your day brighter. 🙂
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