Quotes about Decisions

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

"Quick decisions are unsafe decisions."
-Sophocles

"The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action."
-John Dewey

"We must give lengthy deliberation to what has to be decided once and for all."
-Publilius Syrus

"The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice."
-George Eliot

"Give no decision till both sides thou'st heard."
-Phocylides

"You can't build a strong corporation with a lot of committees and a board that has to be consulted every turn. You have to be able to make decisions on your own."
-Rupert Murdoch

"An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides."
-John H. Patterson

"If someone tells you he is going to make "a realistic decision", you immediately understand that he is going to do something bad."
-Mary Mccarthy

"Decisions, particularly important ones, have always made me sleepy, perhaps because I know that I will have to make them by instinct, and thinking things out is only what other people tell me I should do."
-Lillian Hellman

"Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free."
-Paul Tillich

"Before a person makes a decision or gets involved he should form the habit of asking himself a simple but important question: "How will this affect my life, and others?" Alfred A."
-Alfred A. Montapert

"A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards."
-Karl Kraus

"It is not always what we know or analyzed before we make a decision that makes it a great decision. It is what we do after we make the decision to implement and execute it that makes it a good decision."
-William Pollard

"If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise."
-Robert Fritz

"Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not."
-Philip Crosby

"When it is not necessary to make a decision, it is necessary not to make a decision."
-Lord Falkland

"The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice."
-Abbe' D'Allanival

"My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are easy; you don't make them because they are cheap; you don't make them because they're popular; you make them because they're right."
-Theodore Hesburgh

"I just decided I wanted to become someone else... So I became someone else."
-Dusty Springfield

"We should choose the right because it is right, and leave consequences with God."
-Ellen G. White

"I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again."
-Elie Wiesel

"Decisions are made by people who have time, not people who have talent."
-Scott Adams

"When we empower nurses, they make excellent decisions."
-Barbara Blakeney

"We are disappointed in those decisions. I think their choice to arrest us reflects on them."
-Jacob Reitan

"The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose."
-Thornton Wilder

"May 1 is the day we will make decisions as to which sites will remain open."
-Donna Rippley

"It really has no bearing on any decisions. Coaching and playing is all we can do."
-Joe Augustine