Decisions Quotes

We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes–understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success.

~ Arianna Huffington

It takes ten good decisions to make up for one disastrous one. This is why it is better not to make nine good decisions than to make one bad one—which is what happens most of the time.

~ Neel Burton

Ian pretended that not knowing what to do was the hard part when, somewhere inside, I think he knew that making a choice about something is when the real uncertainty begins. The more terrifying uncertainty is wanting something and not knowing how to get it. It is working toward something even though there is no sure thing. When we make choices, we open ourselves up to hard work and failure and heartbreak, so sometimes it feels easier not to know, not to choose, and not to do.

~ Meg Jay

And so back to Cassie: who was she? Part of the deception, just a friend or something else…perhaps it was time to find out.

~ Melanie Cusick-Jones

Cyber bullying occurs online daily. Most don't consider their actions or words to be bullying. Here's a few clues that you're a cyber bully.(1) You post information about someone in order to ruin their character.(2) You post threats to someone.(3) You tag someone in vulgar degrading posts.(4) You post any information intended to harm or shame another individual seeking to gain attention.Then, you are a cyber bully and need to get some help.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Be careful who's advice you heed to! It is better to listen to your heart.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You will know it is love when the need can't be met by yourself or God.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Do not make promises when you are happy, either way never make decisions when you are angry. Stay calm.

~ David Esabwa

In the darkness time, let your passion and spirit lead you to make a better decision.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Success, just like poverty is a state of mind. You can become successful instantly with a simple decision and commitment. Long lasting and pronounced success comes to those who renew their commitment to a mindset of abundance every minute, hour and day.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Sometimes, the only cost to experience an ecstatic moment is a decision

~ Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana

Sometimes, the most graceful way to handle something is to be decidedly ungraceful.

~ Kristi Ling

The meaning of life. The wasted years of life. The poor choices of life. God answers the mess of life with one word: 'grace.

~ Max Lucado

Even if the decisions one made on a given day seemed crazy, it helped to think that all things happened for a mysterious reason.

~ Lorna Jane Cook

... life is a series of tiny, unavoidable decisions.

~ Steven Galloway

You are the only author of the story of your life. 'Fate' is just an excuse for all of your wrong decisions.

~ Adwitiya Borah

Sometimes, I am my own worst enemy.

~ Tim Mcgraw

The cool thing about getting older, is that you have so much to look back on. If you take the time to reflect on your life journey to where you are now, you will be amazed at how many times “fate” caused you to make great decisions that lead you to where you are now.

~ Beth Ramsay

It is strange how intricately life hangs in the scales, and how unrelated events and single decisions alter the outcomes. Some remote land ten thousand miles from me, some land unfamiliar to me, held the key to my future.

~ Sara Niles

There’s no such thing as fate. It’s just the word men give to decisions which have worked out badly.

~ Kim Wright

A lot of things should have been, Zigmund, but they aren’t. Are you going to be miserable about the things you cannot change, or do something about the things you can?

~ Melika Dannese Lux

Reject evil. Choose the good.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It is important to know what you don't want.

~ Amitav Chowdhury

Most of life's actions are within our reach, but decisions take willpower.

~ Robert Mckee

…There are times when something is asked of us, and we find we must do it. There is no calculation involved, no measure of the necessity of the thing itself, the action that must be performed. There is simply an acknowledgment that we will do the thing in question, and then the thing is done, often at considerable personal cost. What goes into these decisions? What tiny factors, invisible, in the jutting edges of personality and circumstance, contribute to this inevitability?

~ Jesse Ball

You are not who you say you are but rather what you do. Look at what it is that you do. If you don't like what you see: decide what you would like to see instead. Make those changes. Realize your potential. Harness your power. Seize every opportunity and do what it is that allows you to be true to yourself. Don't deny yourself your path. Only you can decide. Only you have that power. Only you are living your life.

~ Akiroq Brost

Freedom comes with the decision: it does not wait for the act.

~ William Faulkner

Your decisions are the A.I.R. (Action, Impact, and Result) or the breath of life you take each day to live. Each decision is made from your action, the impact of the action, and the results of that action.

~ Thomas Narofsky

You will find that people will always have opinions about your decisions. Don’t take it personally, it’s simply because they're not courageous enough to take action in their own lives. Be a leader in your life and pay no mind to those who lack the courage to do the same in theirs.

~ Steve Maraboli

The Scorpion?The Grasshopper?Which way will she go?

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

There are moments when you stand on the brink of a new experience and understand that you have no choice about it. Either you walk into the experience or you turn away from it, but you know that no matter what you choose, you will have altered your life in a permanent way. Either way, there will be consequences.

~ Dennis Covington

You will learn to make better decisions in life with experience and time.

~ Robert Tew

The measure of a man comes down to moments, spread out like dots of pain on the canvas on life. Everything you were, everything you'll someday be, resides in the small, seemingly ordinary choices of everyday life.....Each decision seems as insignificant as a left turn on an unfamiliar road when you have no destination in mind. But the decisions accumulate until you realize one day that they've made you the man that you are.

~ Kristin Hannah

I find the rational part of my mind curled up in a corner of my head and convince it to talk to me.

~ Tony Talbot

A choice of pains. That's what living was all about.

~ Audre Lorde

Quick decisions made in anger, usually end in regret.

~ Elizabeth Bourgeret

If two people truly have feelings for one another then they don’t have an affair. They get a divorce and they sort out their feelings. You are accountable for the people you hold hostage in a marriage when your mind and heart refuse to fully commit to them.

~ Shannon L. Alder

The measure of a man lies not in his lengthy accomplishments, but in his decisions when he is faced with the certain, indisputable knowledge that he is going to die.

~ Mitch Rowland

When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.

~ Horace Walpole

There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it.

~ Alain De Botton