Decisions Quotes

It's painful and it's messy. But sometimes you just have to make the break and start again.

~ Tony Parsons

If you want to trust yourself, make decisions that aregrounded in your authentic principles. Don’t lie. Don’tcheat. Don’t push others down to obtain success.

~ Richie Norton

He knew, perhaps better than anyone, that we don't get to choose what is true. We only get to choose what we do about it.

~ Kami Garcia

Little decisions over time make a big impact on our lives.

~ Eric Samuel Timm

It's hard to do that, to decide to believe one thing over another.

~ Carol Rifka Brunt

Now, he realized, he simply had to take what he wanted. He had to control the winds, not the other way around (p. 434).

~ Rick Riordan

I’d rather go and make my own way than have it decided for me.

~ Laura Lam

So what are you going to do? Let your future be shaped by the injustices and cruelties of the past, or do you shape your own future? Do you walk down those mean streets without becoming mean yourself, or do you lie down and whimper? Victim of everyone, or the hero of your own story – those are your only choices.

~ Ralph E. Vaughan

A number of small decisions, each appearing insignificant in the moment and made in isolation of one another, can result in a negative outcome.

~ Vince Molinaro

I do not know your situation. But I know the easy answer is almost always the wrong one. Search your heart. Where is your fear driving you?

~ Aaron Pogue

That our intuition could lead us astray is troubling in direct proportion to the degree of trust we place in it. The solution would seem to be: Don’t be overly trusting. Mix in a healthy dose of skepticism. But suppose we don’t have a say in the matter? Suppose we’re hardwired to trust—to believe in—our instincts, regardless of whether they’re right? Suddenly the problem of not knowing becomes a lot more complicated.

~ Leah Hager Cohen

If you let fear make decisions for you, fear will make good decisions - but only for its own sake, not yours. p. 161

~ Bridget Asher

When you have to made a decision, there's no return, keep this in your mind.

~ Al-Hanouf Halawi

Everything is a tool - a boot, a sled, a dog - and a hand, an arm, even a man! If it breaks down you throw it away and you march on! It's brutal, yes! And it's ugly. But anything else is sentiment and it will kill you.

~ Ted Tally

Observation is the telescope of human nature. It is the tele of watching distantly. But taking an action is the result of Self-regulation and interference. It is going beyond boundaries in aiming to achieve a considerable ambitions.

~ Mohammed Rasmi

The ignoramus crow of love it or leave it omits other viable options, such as staying and changing it.

~ Bryant Mcgill

I had reclusive tendencies for a reason, I couldn’t be trusted to live in the world and make decisions on my own.

~ Penny Reid

We wind our way up the spiral staircase and then down the long hallway that leads to his room. I feel almost like I’m watching the scene unfold from outside my body. My fingers are interlocked with his as he pulls me toward a moment that’s going to change everything. We are ten steps away. Five steps. I can’t decide. But then I do.

~ Paula Stokes

You'll wake up one day and find you're almost forty, and you haven't done any of the things you wanted. That you let in so many voices when you were trying to make decisions, instead of listening to the One voice that mattered, that you never decided anything at all.

~ Stephanie Morrill

Time...give us enough time and our best-supported decisions will seem wobbly, our certainties whimsical.

~ Julian Barnes

I wouldn't want to live that life. I choose the pain. I chose the pain.

~ Suzanne Palmieri

If the breadth of perspectives is wide enough to represent the fullest range of views, consensus is unlikely. If consensus is swiftly achieved, it probably means too few voices have been heard.

~ Ron Suskind

We are very quiet there, but it is the quiet of a storm centre. .

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

My bad luck got tangled up with my bad decisions, and I'm paying for it.

~ Patrick Rothfuss

The only good thing about having your back to the wall is that it makes it really easy to choose which way you're going to go.

~ Jim Butcher

I realize that the decision might be simple. It will require a great act of selflessness to choose Abnegation, or a great act of courage to choose Dauntless, and maybe just choosing one over the other will prove that I belong.

~ Veronica Roth

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.

~ Bo Schembechler

For what do you hunger, Lord?” Moneo ventured.“For a humankind which can make truly long-term decisions. Do you know the key to that ability, Moneo?”“You have said it many times, Lord. It is the ability to change your mind.

~ Frank Herbert

Many people fail in their career, business and relationship, and others get stuck because of their inability to make quality decisions.

~ Nkem Paul

The reason I like the game chess is because each move has countless repercussions, but you're in charge of them. And it's your ability to see into the future and the effects of the decisions you've made that males you either a good or not a good chess player. It's not luck.

~ Bono

-Elves never make any major decision until they have thought the matter over for at least a year or two, gone round to all their friends and relatives and discussed the problem, done research, read tomes, consulted the sages.-And what happens then?- By then they've usually forgotten what it was they meant to do in the first place.

~ Margaret Weis

You can't make the right decision, but you can always make the dicision right.

~ Thomas Murdock

Don’t think about it. Don’t think about what could have been. It’s too unbearable.

~ Sophie Kinsella

I had made a decision, although I hardly knew it yet. It's often that way with decisions, they're made in some hidden part of us and the awareness secretes itself slowly into that conscious part of us that imagines it decides.

~ Neil Jordan

I know when something is too important to be decided by logic.

~ Lisa Kleypas

Miles added it to his life's lessons list. Call it Rule 27B. Never make key tactical decisions while having electro-convulsive seizures.

~ Lois Mcmaster Bujold

Jesus told us to make disciples, not decisions.

~ John Pereira

It's like picking the place you're going to live for the next fifty years by using a wall map, a blindfold, and what you really, truly, deeply believe is your lucky dart.' Sullenly Judith said, `I don't believe I have a lucky dart,' and her mother cast an unhappy smile her way and said, `You will, though.

~ Tom Mcneal

We lose the fear of making decisions great and small as we realize that should our choice prove wrong we can if we will learn from the experience.

~ Bill W.

Your mindset matters. It affects everything - from the business and investment decisions you make, to the way you raise your children, to your stress levels and overall well-being.

~ Peter Diamandis