Decision making is the process of identifying and choosing alternatives based on the values, preferences and beliefs of the decision-maker. Profoundly inspirational decision making quotes will challenge the way you think, and help guide you through any life experience.
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Famous Decision Making Quotes
The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people. — Randy Pausch
The key to making healthy decisions is to respect your future self. Honor him or her, treat him or her like you would treat a friend or a loved one. A Stanford study showed that those who saw a photo of their future self made smarter financial decisions. — A.J. Jacobs
Life is filled with difficult decisions, and winners are those who make them. — Dan Brown
The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all. — Niccolo Machiavelli
Every decision brings with it some good, some bad, some lessons, and some luck. The only thing that’s for sure is that indecision steals many years from many people who wind up wishing they’d just had the courage to leap. — Doe Zantamata
The only certainty is uncertainty — Pliny the Elder
In the final analysis there is no other solution to man’s progress but the day’s honest work, the day’s honest decision, the day’s generous utterances, and the day’s good deed. — Clare Boothe Luce
We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do things, we can accomplish those goals. — Stephen Covey
Decision is the spark that ignites action. Until a decision is made, nothing happens…. Decision is the courageous facing of issues, knowing that if they are not faced, problems will remain forever unanswered. — Wilfred A. Peterson
Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach. — Tony Robbins
You are only one decision from a totally different life. — Anonymous
One of the major biases in risky decision making is optimism. Optimism is a source of high-risk thinking. — Daniel Kahneman
Indecision is a decision. — Anonymous
What you can do, or think you can, begin it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter. — Malcolm Gladwell
The speed of decision making is the essence of good governance. — Piyush Goyal
What is necessary is never unwise. — Ben Cross
It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are. — Malala Yousafzai
Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can’t choose between right and wrong by taking a census. — Elizabeth Taylor
It is not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are. — Roy Disney
Waiting hurts. Forgetting hurts. But not knowing which decision to take can sometimes be the most painful…
― José N. Harris
Every individual can make a difference … if we continue to leave decision making to the so-called decision makers, things will never change. — Jane Goodall
Unnecessary fear of a bad decision is a major stumbling block to good decisions. — Jun Camp
You don’t have to defend or explain your decisions to anyone. It’s your life. Live it without apologies. — Anonymous
The major mistake people pursue in decision making is to surround themselves with negatively minded people. People who are going nowhere will never take you anywhere; people who are going everywhere can take you somewhere. — Israelmore Ayivor
Whenever it comes to decision making, Remember the part about having confidence. — Auliq Ice
A wise man makes his own decisions. An ignorant man follows public opinion. — Chinese Proverb
Without women’s full inclusion at the decision making table, we cannot have any healthy decision making that is good for men and women alike. — Zainab Salbi
Always make decisions that prioritize your inner peace. — Izey Victoria Odiase
When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision. — Paulo Coelho
A major life decision is never a choice but rather a realization that the decision has already been made. — Doug Cooper
So yes, European decision making is not pretty. But it does work. — Helle Thorning-Schmidt
Find ways to decentralize. Move decision making authority down and out. Encourage a more entrepreneurial approach. — Donald Rumsfeld
The Public … demands certainties … But there are not certainties — H. L. Mencken
Every positive change in your life begins with a clear, unequivocal decision that you are going to either do something or stop doing something. — Anonymous
Sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the same. — Anonymous
You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen. — Michelle Obama
We unfortunately live in a corporate world where group decision making is made to avoid failure rather than to achieve success. — Bill Cahan
The worst business decision you can make is no decision. The needs are not going to go away. Waiting is whats gotten us in the situation we’re in now. — John Peace
Obedience brings peace in decision making. If we have firmly made up our minds to follow the commandments, we will not have to redecide which path to take when temptation comes our way. — James E. Faust
I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum. — Frances Willard
Decision making and problem solving are not the same. To solve a problem, one needs to find a solution. To make a decision, one needs to make a choice. — Michael J. Marx
Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it. — Oprah Winfrey
Sometimes it’s the smallest decisions that can change your life forever. — Anonymous
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution. — Robert H. Schuller
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it. — Norman Schwarzkopf
So, what can’t you take? Decide which of the two options is harder, and do the other. That way, no matter how hard your choice turns out to be, at least you can find comfort in knowing you’re avoiding something even worse.
― Josephine Angelini
Unsuccessful people make decisions based on their current situation; successful people make decisions based on where they want to be. — Anonymous
Visionary decision-making happens at the intersection of intuition and logic. — Paul O’Brien
Good decisions come from experience, and experience comes from bad decisions. — Anonymous
They don’t make you what you are, you do. You are what you choose to be. — Harry Connick, Jr.
You are the CEO of your own life, start making executive decisions today. — Stephen Luke
I found every single successful person I’ve ever spoken to had a turning point. The turning point was when they made a clear, specific unequivocal decision that they were going to achieve success. Some people make that decision at and some people make it at , and most people never make it at all. — Brian Tracey
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal. If you give up before your goal has been reached, you are a ‘quitter’. A quitter never wins, and a winner never quits. — Napoleon Hill
Effective decision-making can be seen as an optimal link between memory of the past, ground-realities of the present and insights of the future. — Amit Ray
Trust your instincts, and make judgements on what your heart tells you. The heart will not betray you. ― David Gemmell
Maybe don’t make it so. — Albert Finney
The essence of the phenomenon of gambling is decision making. The act of making a decision consists of selecting one course of action, or strategy, from among the set of admissible strategies. — Richard Arnold Epstein
Just really, really believe in what you’re trying to do. Don’t let people alter that. Let people advise you and lead you down paths to make smart business decisions. But trust your instinct and trust that overwhelming drive that made you put all your dreams and everything on the line. — Luke Bryan
It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong. — Thomas Sowell
I’m on the verge of taking a stand. — Tom Hollander
The art of good decision making is looking forward to and celebrating the tradeoffs, not pretending they don’t exist. — Seth Godin
You cannot make progress without making decisions. — Jim Rohn
Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision. Peter Drucker
We can’t retract the decisions we’ve made, we can only affect the decisions we’re going to make from here. — Jamie Foxx
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision. ― Peter F. Drucker
One comes to a decision based on what one wants, not based on what one doesn’t want. Got it? — Martha Plimpton
My basic principle is that you don’t make decisions because they are cheap; you make them because they’re right. — Theodore Hesburgh
Now that it’s all over, what did you really do yesterday that’s worth mentioning?Coleman Cox
Plan B. You’ve always got to have a Plan B. — Sylvester Stallone
Decisions can be a major challenge for all of us… — Les Brown
The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react. — George Bernard Shaw
A graphic is never an end in itself; it is a moment in the process of decision making. — Jacques Bertin
Most of society’s decision making for young people happens without young people, and that could not happen without adultcentrism. — Adam Fletcher
Design is nothing if not decision making. — Henry Petroski
Perhaps our greatest distinction as a species is our capacity, unique among animals, to make counter-evolutionary choices. Jared Diamond
Public decision-making does not lend itself to certitude. — Jim Leach
Decision making is the specific executive task. — Peter Drucker
The art of decision making includes the art of questioning. — Pearl Zhu
Decision-making is a skill. Wisdom is a leadership trait. — Mark Millar
When you live in reaction, you give your power away. Then you get to experience what you gave your power to. — N. Smith
The key to good decision making is not knowledge… It’s whether our work fulfills us. — Malcolm Gladwell
Under our [constitutional system] – either we’re going to have to rethink our Constitution, or we’re going to have to rethink our process of decision-making. — Newt Gingrich
Decision making can sometimes seem like inner civil war. — Jim Rohn
Whenever you’re making an important decision, first ask if it gets you closer to your goals or farther away. If the answer is closer, pull the trigger. If it’s farther away, make a different choice. Conscious choice making is a critical step in making your dreams a reality. — Jillian Michaels
Impossible to see, the future is. — Frank Oz
The wayside of business is full of brilliant men [or women] who started out with a spurt, and lacked the stamina to finish. Their places were taken by patient and unshowy plodders who never knew when to quit. — J. R. Todd
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
Don’t entrust your future on others’ hands. Rather make decisions by yourself with the help of God’s guidance. Hold your beliefs so tight and never let go of them! ― Hark Herald Sarmiento
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change direction overnight. — Jim Rohn
In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take and the decisions we waited to make. — Anonymous
I believe in evidence-based decision making. I want to know what the facts are. — Hillary Clinton
What’s called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties. — Elia Kazan
Look down from as high as possible. Look ahead as far as you can see. Then decide what to do. — Simon Sinek
Will no man ever do something without a why, just like that, for the hell of it? — Anthony Quinn
Balanced emotions are crucial to intuitive decision making. — Michael D. Eisner
Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away. Move on to something else that’s more productive. — Donald Trump
Courage and confidence are what decision making is all about. — Mike Krzyzewski
The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man. ― Victor Hugo
Every time you make a decision, you mess with someone’s life. — Kevin James
Whatever you decide to do, make sure it makes you happy. — Anonymous
When faced with a decision, choose the path that feeds your soul. — Dorothy Mendoza Row
Usually, when you make a decision in life, unless you have access to parallel universes, you can’t truly judge how right that decision was. — Tibor Fischer
At that moment, in the sunset on Watership Down, there was offered to General Woundwort the opportunity to show whether he was really the leader of vision and genius which he believed himself to be, or whether he was no more than a tyrant with the courage and cunning of a pirate. For one beat of his pulse the lame rabbit’s idea shone clearly before him. He grasped it and realized what it meant. The next, he had pushed it away from him. ― Richard Adams
The strength of collective decision making and political responsibility is not only a question of recognizing other people’s ability. It is also recognizing one’s own limitations. — Aruna Roy
Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always, America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward. — Thomas Edison
On an important decision one rarely has % of the information needed for a good decision no matter how much one spends or how long one waits. And, if one waits too long, he has a different problem and has to start all over. This is the terrible dilemma of the hesitant decision maker. — Robert K. Greenleaf
Don’t base your decisions on the advice of those who don’t have to deal with the results. — Anonymous
Decision making is an art only until the person understands the science. — Pearl Zhu
In part because individual judgement is not accurate enough or consistent enough, cognitive diversity is essential to good decision making. — James Surowiecki
On an important decision one rarely has 100% of the information needed for a good decision no matter how much one spends or how long one waits. And, if one waits too long, he has a different problem and has to start all over. This is the terrible dilemma of the hesitant decision maker. ― Robert K. Greenleaf
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
Who can really say how decisions are made, how emotions change, how ideas arise? We talk about inspiration; about a bolt of lightnng from a clear sky, but perhaps everything is just as simple and just as infinitely complex as the processes that make a particular leaf fall at a particularmoment. That point has been reached, that’s all. It has to happen, and it does happen. ― John Ajvide Lindqvist
Nothing happens until you decide. Make a decision and watch your life move forward. — Oprah Winfrey
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.–Elbert Hubbard 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
