“Impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, we make our irrevocable decisions”
“The roads we take are more important than the goals we announce. Decisions determine destiny.”
“It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide what to do.”
“I hate to see things done by halves. If it be right, do it boldly, if it be wrong leave it undone.”
“You've got to know when to hold em, know when to fold em know when to walk away, know when to run.”
“Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness or oppose with firmness.”
“The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.”
“Decide promptly, but never give any reasons. Your decisions may be right, but your reasons are sure to be wrong.”
“The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.”
“Most of our executives make very sound decisions. The trouble is many of them have turned out not to have been right.”
“The person who in shaky times also wavers only increases the evil, but the person of firm decision fashions the universe.”
“Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.”
“Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.”
“Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions.”
“Making a decision to have a child -- it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.”
“They are decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.”
“We are given one life, and the decision is our whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.”
“When possible make the decisions now, even if action is in the future. A reviewed decision usually is better than one reached at the last moment.”
“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?”
“It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.”
“People don't want to know that as a woman, I made my own decision as a woman to leave, It has to be I was so burnt out or in love. [On her decision to quit E.R.]”
“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.”
“Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the Ready- Aim-Aim-Aim Syndrome. You must be willing to fire.”
“Decision is a sharp knife that cuts or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was clean and straight; indecision, a dull one that hacks and tears and leaves ragged edges behind it.”
“Everything starts with yourself -- with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life. I tell kids that it's a cruel world, and that the world will bend them either left or right, and it's up to them to decide which way to bend.”
“Somewhere along the line of development we discover what we really are, and then we make our real decision for which we are responsible. Make that decision primarily for yourself because you can never really live anyone else's life, not even your own child's.”
“How could a man be satisfied with a decision between such alternatives and under such circumstances? No more than he can be satisfied with his hat, which he's chosen from among such shapes as the resources of the age offer him, wearing it at best with a resignation which is chiefly supported by comparison.”
“I also remember the moment my life changed, the moment I finally said, ''I've had it! I know I'm much more than I'm demonstrating mentally, emotionally, and physically in my life.'' I made a decision in that moment which was to alter my life forever. I decided to change virtually every aspect of my life. I decided I would never again settle for less than I can be.”
“In making our decisions, we must use the brains that God has given us. But we must also use our hearts which He also gave us. A man who has not learned to say, ''No'' --who is not resolved that he will take God's way, in spite of every dog that can bay or bark at him, in spite of every silvery choice that woos him aside--will be a weak and a wretched man till he dies.”
“You must know that in any moment a decision you make can change the course of your life forever: the very next person stand behind in line or sit next to on an airplane, the very next phone call you make or receive, the very next movie you see or book you read or page you turn could be the one single thing that causes the floodgates to open, and all of the things that you've been waiting for to fall into place.”