Decision Quotes

Every decision you make, makes you. Never let other people choose who you’re going to be.

~ Cassandra Clare

It's a good idea always to do something relaxing prior to making an important decision in your life.

~ Paulo Coelho

Seize what's been handed you. Make smart decisions. Make decisions because life is a temporary situation.

~ James Patterson

Don't beg a man to keep you. If he isn't sure you are the right one make the decision for yourself. You deserve better than maybe.

~ Paula Heller Garland

I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.

~ J. Michael Straczynski

It is often said that a wrong decision taken at the right time is better than a right decision taken at the wrong time.

~ Pearl Zhu

If you’re always asking what if you made another decision, you will never be happy with the decisions you have made. Every decision in your life has been the right one at the time to allow you to get to this point in your life. The only decisions you can change are your decisions in the future.

~ Avina Celeste

The hardest decision of the day is always the first decision you must make. It's the choice you make to TRY.

~ Toni Sorenson

And so I would ask you if you would do me the honor of becoming my wife? As he spoke, she saw him glance over her shoulder, looking at the clock that stood in the corner. As though he had another appointment after this one. The one where he decided her fate.Unless she decided it for herself. The emotion she'd felt on recognizing Lord Alexander in that ballroom rushed over her, the unfamiliar feelings of want and dissatisfaction and wishing she could just be herself, just do something that wasn't related to who she was- she wanted to stand up and demand that Lord Carson, that anyone see her as Eleanor, the pun-loving, adventurous woman who adored Italian.Not a female to be bartered from one family to another.

~ Megan Frampton

When you've made up your mind to marry, take the first respectable body that comes to hand- she's as good as any other; they'll be all alike in the groundwork; 'tis only in the flourishes there's a difference.

~ Thomas Hardy

The decision can’t alone be mine,While the chalice is still full of wine

~ Rahim Haider

Where was Sam?It hit her full force then, the shocking realization. Was this how Sam felt? Was this how he’d been feeling since the beginning? All eyes on him? Everyone waiting for a decision? Even as people doubted and criticized and attacked?She wanted to be sick. She had been there for so much of it. But she hadn’t been the one. She hadn’t been the one making those choices.And now…she was.“I don’t know what to do,” Astrid said. “I don’t know.

~ Michael Grant

Decision making is an art only until the person understands the science.

~ Pearl Zhu

The art of decision making includes the art of questioning.

~ Pearl Zhu

Both the art of intuition and the science of analytics have the role to play in making wise decisions.

~ Pearl Zhu

Decision maturity is to ensure the right decisions have been made by the right people at the right time to solve the right problems.

~ Pearl Zhu

No decision in the world outlives the time, place, and person’s constituents on the basis of which it was made.

~ Pearl Zhu

When one is not able to take a decision out of many alternatives, the mind unconsciouslydivides into many parts – sometimes as many as the alternatives.

~ Girdhar Joshi

So you've made a few bad decisions. So have I. So has Elias. So has everyone attempting to do something difficult. That doesn't mean that you give up, you fool. Do you understand?

~ Sabaa Tahir

I shake my head. “I know,” I reply. “You are searching for her too.”We stand for a moment, staring out at the stars mirrored in the calm seas. I know why Magiano doesn’t look at me. I remind him too much of her.“I’m sorry,” I whisper, after a long pause.“Don’t be.” A small, sad smile touches his lips. “She chose it.

~ Marie Lu

All our finite decisions are taken in a very transient emotional stage.

~ Pearl Zhu

Decisions are always characterized by the lack of information and knowledge.

~ Pearl Zhu

Serpentining means trying to control a situation, backing out of it, pretending it's not happening, or maybe even pretending that you don't care. We use it to dodge conflict, discomfort, possible confrontation, the potential for shame or hurt, and/or criticism (self- or other-inflicted). Serpentining can lead to hiding out, pretending, avoidance, procrastination, rationalizing, blaming, and lying.I have a tendency to want to serpentine when I feel vulnerable. If I have to make a difficult call, I'll try to script both sides of it. I'll convince myself that I should wait, I'll draft an e-mail while telling myself that it's better in writing, and I'll think of a million other things to do. I'll emotionally run back and forth until I'm exhausted.

~ Brené Brown

It is not other people who make them to smoke, it is mostly a voluntary decision.

~ Sunday Adelaja

But if she is alone now, it is because she chose to be alone, not someone decree if for her. Her life is hers to live, not yours to repair.

~ Robin Hobb

I prefer to be a sad screwed stupid bitch, than a fucking liar, fake and pretender that has to put different masks per day.

~ Sara Keddar

The trouble with making an important decision was that you never had enough information to do it without hesitating. And it’s the hesitation that gnawed at you and never helped you to make the decision.

~ Kenneth Eade

You know there's always things in life that you have to do despite the fact that you know for certain the outcome is going to be messy, painful, humiliating, or all three.

~ Ben Aaronovitch

Everything wrong I've ever done has always seemed like the right thing to do at the time.

~ Judith Mcnaught

Love is a choice. It's a decision.' She told us, 'It flows into, through, and out of each person like a river. If you try to stop it, it'll sneak around until It finds another heart and breaks through.

~ Charles Martin

Following your heart is the best decision you will ever make.

~ Jennifer Lovering

Don't waste your time to appease people who have already stumbled in you because of what you stand for. Respect their decision & move on...

~ Assegid Habtewold

Following your heart is the best decision you will ever make.

~ Jennifer Lovering

Confusion, when embraced, is the starting point for discovery, direction and decision.

~ Richie Norton

I watch her with loving sadness as she dulls her shine to please others. Will this butterfly ever soar? Will she continue to pretend she can’t fly? Her greatest life awaits this decision.

~ Steve Maraboli

He did not want to fail, when the Bee Master had trusted him with the home and the possessions and the occupation that were all he had of his very own, and he did not know that as the storm drew nearer, as the clouds grew blacker, as the heat waves resolved themselves into definite flashes of lightning, as the night closed down black as velvet around him, he did not realize that his moral and mental forces were rising with the tide of the storm, that all the remnants of manhood left in his shaken body were gathering together for some sort of culmination, just as presently the storm would reach its height and then subside.

~ Gene Stratton-Porter

You’ve got this job offer in Charlotte. I know. But if you want, that’s something we can figure out together. I made a commitment to Cameron, so I need to stay in Chicago until she’s back from maternity leave. But after that, I can—” “I didn’t take the job in Charlotte.” “Oh. Right.” He exhaled, trying to catch up to speed. “Well. You should know that I had at least two minutes left on that speech. Really quality stuff.” “Sorry. I just thought this might be a good time to mention that I love you, too.” She made a rolling gesture. “But, please—carry on.” He grinned. Sassy as ever.

~ Julie James

There's a thin line between an uncertain 'Yes' and a certain 'No' known as 'lame indecisiveness'.

~ Aniruddha Sastikar

Perhaps, it is better to be decided than undecided. But it is certainly the best to stay decidedly undecided.

~ Raheel Farooq

People who wear G-strings suffer from indecision.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana