Quotes and Sayings on Decisions and Making Decisions

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.
Elbert Hubbard

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

As a man thinketh, so is he, and as a man chooseth, so is he.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - choose the bolder.
William Joseph Slim

High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly, make big decisions quickly and move into action immediately. Follow these principles and you can make your dreams come true.
Robert H. Schuller

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.
Keri Russell

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward.
Amelia Earhart

Vacillating people seldom succeed. Successful men and women are very careful in reaching their decisions, and very persistent and determined in action thereafter.
L. G. Elliott

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

It's in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
Anthony Robbins

An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.
Edward de Bono

Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
Peter Drucker

The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them, and then make our plans with confidence.
Henry Ford

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When possible make the decisions now, even if action is in the future. A revised decision usually is better than one reached at the last moment.
William B. Given

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
A. C. Benson

The moment a question comes to your mind, see yourself mentally taking hold of it and disposing of it. In that moment... you learn to become the decider and not the vacillator. Thus you build character.
H. Van Anderson

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.
William James

There is a time when we must firmly choose the course we will follow, or the relentless drift of events will make the decision for us.
Herbert B. Prochnow

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.
Jim Rohn