Decision Quotes

I've learned that no matter what happens, or how bad itseems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow. I've learned thatyou can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things:a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights. I've learned thatregardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they'regone from your life. I've learned that making a living is not the same thing asmaking a life. I've learned that life sometimes gives you a second chance. I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on bothhands; you need to be able to throw some things back. I've learned that wheneverI decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. I'velearned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one. I've learned thatevery day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, orjust a friendly pat on the back. I've learned that I still have a lot to learn. I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what youdid, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

When the light turns green, you go. When the light turns red, you stop. But what do you do when the light turns blue with orange and lavender spots?

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions. Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men's actions.

The problems we face, did not come down from the heavens. They are made, they are made by bad human decisions, and good human decisions can change them.

There is no means of testing which decision is better, because there is no basis for comparison. We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always like a sketch. No, "sketch" is not quite a word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch for nothing, an outline with no picture.

I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.

Making the decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body

Never make a decision when you need to pee.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

When you come to a fork in the road, take it.

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.

In a world where death is the hunter, my friend, there is no time for regrets or doubts. There is only time for decisions.

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

We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

I determined never to stop until I had come to the end and achieved my purpose.

The government is merely a servant"•merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision

If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - not to be solved, but to be coped with over time.

Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment.

It's in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.

As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.

To spend time is to pass it in a specified manner. To waste time is to expend it thoughtlessly or carelessly. We all have time to either spend or waste and it is our decision what to do with it. But once passed, it is gone forever.

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.

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.

Father, make of me a crisis man. Bring those I contact to decision. Let me not be a milepost on a single road; make me a fork, that men must turn one way or another on facing Christ in me.

Today, you've got a decision to make. You're gonna get better or you're gonna get worse, but you're not gonna stay the same. Which will it be?

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.

Trying to please everybody is impossible - if you did that, you'd end up in the middle with nobody liking you. You've just got to make the decision about what you think is your best, and do it.

Children learn how to make good decisions by making decisions, not by following directions.

All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.

Not making a decision is the worst thing you can do. So long as you feel you made the right decision based on the information you had at that time, there's no need to fret about it. If it fails, you'll know what to do next time.

You are free to choose, but you are not free to alter the consequences of your decisions.

As a bio major, I figured "free will" meant chemicals in your brain telling you what to do, the molecules bouncing around in a way that felt like choosing but was actually the dance of little gears—neurons and hormones bubbling up into decisions like clockwork. You don't use your body; it uses you.

One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. Which road do I take? she asked. Where do you want to go? was his response. I don't know, Alice answered. Then, said the cat, it doesn't matter.

Happiness is not a destination or an experience. It's a decision.

Venture capitalists are like lemmings jumping on the software bandwagon.

Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.

Afraid of decision, I buried my finer feelings in the depths of my heart and they died there.

The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender; because this kiss already has within it that surrender.

I thought about how one tiny decision can change a life. A decision that takes only a split second to make.

We're strongly in favor of the U.N. plan for a solution to the Cyprus conflict. Hopefully a solution can be found before the end of this summit, but we cannot and will not let it block our decisions on enlargement.

That was the only decision there was once upon a time: what to do with the night.

I make all my decisions on intuition. But then, I must know why I made that decision. I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.

On an important decision one rarely has 100% of the information needed for a good decision no matter how much one spends or how long one waits. And, if one waits too long, he has a different problem and has to start all over. This is the terrible dilemma of the hesitant decision maker.

He who can not support himself, can not take his own decision.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved,it would be much simpler, but much less magical

Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance.

In the midst of our lives, of our freedom and our struggles, we have to make a radical, absolute decision. And we never know when lightening will strike us out of the blue. It may be when we least expect to be asked whether we have the absolute faith and trust to say yes

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

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?

Big decisions in my life have always come easy and are made without hesitation. It is easier for me to make a life-changing decision than to decide what to get for dessert.

Everyone has the right to make his own decisions, but none has the right to force his decision on others.

Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.

Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good.

To believe that will has power over potentiality, that the passage to actuality is the result of a decision that puts an end to the ambiguity of potentiality (which is always potentiality to do and not to do) "” this is the perpetual illusion of morality.

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

In such seconds of decision entire futures are made.

Everyone has to make their own decisions. I still believe in that. You just have to be able to accept the consequences without complaining.

We all lose sometimes. We fail to get what we want. Friends and loved ones leave. We make a decision we regret. We try our hardest and come up short. It's not the losing that defines us. It's how we lose. It's what we do afterward.

An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.

The aspirations of democracy are based on the notion of an informed citizenry, capable of making wise decisions. The choices we are asked to make become increasingly complex. They require the longer-term thinking and greater tolerance for ambiguity that science fosters. The new economy is predicated on a continuous pipeline of scientific and technological innovation. It can not exist without workers and consumers who are mathematically and scientifically literate.

You have to understand that in a person's life there are a few precious moments in which decisions, choices that you make now, will affect you for the rest of your life.

If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough.

Life is too short to make just one decision, music is too loud for just one station, love is too big for just one nation, and God is too big for just one religion!

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

When I left Barcelona, staying in Spain was an important factor in my decision to join Madrid. I did not have to change country or learn a new language, adopt a different sort of lifestyle, and so on.

The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.

It just happened. As though a moment comes when it's both necessary and natural to make a decision that has long since been made.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.

Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.

You tell them - you tell them there's a cost.....Every decision we make in life, there's always a cost.

Choices are the hinges of destiny.

The truth of the matter is that there's nothing you can't accomplish if: (1) You clearly decide what it is that you're absolutely committed to achieving, (2) You're willing to take massive action, (3) You notice what's working or not, and (4) You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want, using whatever life gives you along the way.

Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

Guard yourself and your conscience no one else will and know that a bad decision at the right time can destroy you far more surely than any bullet!

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.

The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.

Bullying wasn't okay in elementary school and it isn't okay now, especially when it comes in the form of a U.S. Supreme Court decision.

My desire to exit the game is greater than my desire to remain in it. I have searched my heart through and through and feel comfortable with this decision.

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.

Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides. And the history of the future will differ according to the decision which we make.

In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country.

If we are all in agreement on the decision - then I propose we postpone further discussion of this matter until our next meeting to give ourselves time to develop disagreement and perhaps gain some understanding of what the decision is all about.

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

I made a decision back in 1978 that, in a trade off for money when I directed Halloween, I would have my name above the title in order to basically brand these movies my own.

Without knowledge and understanding, one tends to become a passive spectator rather than an active participant in the great decisions of our time.

There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with the existential decision before God, according to the Bible.

The explanations for the things we do in life are many and complex. Supposedly mature adults should live by logic, listen to their reason. Think things out before they act. But maybe they never heard what Dr. London told me one, Freud said that for the little things in life we should react according to our reason. But for really big decisions, we should heed what our unconscious tells us.

Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.

In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.

What you always do before you make a decision is consult. The best public policy is made when you are listening to people who are going to be impacted. Then, once policy is determined, you call on them to help you sell it.

I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.