Having had the experience of making poor decisions and having to deal with the outcome of those decisions will serve as a tool to help you make better decisions in the future. Inspirational decision quotes will encourage growth in life, make you wiser and broaden your perspective.
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Most Famous Decision Quotes
Other people look at failure as an opportunity to revisit past decisions and to devise new strategies. Catherine Pulsifer
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. Theodore Roosevelt
When one can accept that all their circumstances and life events are a result of their decision making, that individual immediately gains back their power to create. Michael Austin Jacobs
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
When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. Sigmund Freud
Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen. Ralph Waldo Emerson
You never know when your life is about to change. You never know when one decision will dramatically impact your life and change the course of your destiny. Dani Johnson, Spirit Driven Success
Sometimes you make the right decision, sometimes you make the decision right. Phil McGraw
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. Maya Angelou
The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision. Maimonides
There are times when delaying a decision has benefit. Often, allowing a set period of time to mull something over so your brain can work it through generates a thoughtful and effective decision. Nancy Morris
There’s a difference between being ignorant and being stupid. For me, an ignorant person is someone who makes the wrong decision or a bad choice because he or she does not have the proper facts. If you give that person the facts and the proper information you have alleviated that ignorance, and they make the right decision. Daryl Davis
We may think that our decisions are guided purely by logic and rationality, but our emotions always play a role in our good decision making process. Salma Stockdale
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come. Robert H. Schuller
YOU decide what your limits are, and YOU decide your level of success. You are responsible for the time that you spend on this planet. Les Brown
Forgiveness is not a feeling it’s a decision we make because we want to do what’s right before God. It’s a quality decision that won’t be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense. Joyce Meyer
There are no guarantees or crystal balls for the future, and there’s no absolute way to know if you are or aren’t making the right decision. Give tomorrow the best possible chance that you can. Kennedth Dino
Think 100 times before you take a decision, But once that decision is taken, stand by it as one man. Muhammad Ali Jinnah
If you have a decision to make, list down the pain points of doing it and the pleasures of doing it. Romuald Andrade
We must shift our thinking away from short term gain toward long term investment and sustainability, and always have the next generations in mind with every decision we make. Deb Haaland
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision. Peter F Drucker
Life is a chess match. Every decision that you make has a consequence to it. P.K. Subban
The most important thing is to make decisions. Whether the decision is right or wrong is secondary. You will soon receive feedback that will help you to progress. Marc Reklau
The quality of decision is like the well timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim. Sun Tzu
Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision. Anthony Robbins
It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires a great deal of strength to decide what to do. Elbert Hubbard
Some of our important choices have a time line. If we delay a decision, the opportunity is gone forever. Sometimes our doubts keep us from making a choice that involves change. Thus an opportunity may be missed. James E. Faust
What’s more, beyond our personal world most of the great problems of our day can be solved only by each of us deciding to take action in our sphere of power. John B. Izzo
It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. Isaac Asimov
A decision isn’t a life long thing. Sometimes we make the wrong decision, but we can always change it if we realize we’ve made the wrong choice. Simon Smith
The decision to serve a mission will shape the spiritual destiny of the missionary, his or her spouse, and their posterity for generations to come. A desire to serve is a natural outcome of one’s conversion, worthiness, and preparation. Russell M. Nelson
A real decision is measured by the fact that you’ve taken a new action. If there’s no action, you haven’t truly decided. Anthony Robbins
I think that when you get dressed in the morning, sometimes you’re really making a decision about your behavior for the day. Like if you put on flipflops, you’re saying: ‘Hope I don’t get chased today.’ ‘Be nice to people in sneakers.’ Demetri Martin
Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision. Denis Waitley
As I have done in every election since I started voting so many years ago, I always like to take my time and examine the two candidates, see not only the two candidates but the policies they will bring in, the people they will bring in, who they might appoint to the Supreme Court, and look at the whole range of issues before making a decision. Colin Powell
All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it. Harry S. Truman
If we are all in agreement on the decision then I propose we postpone further discussion of this matter until our next meeting to give ourselves time to develop disagreement and perhaps gain some understanding of what the decision is all about. Alfred P. Sloan
Starting to live a life that you control begins with making decisions about goals. Yaniv Shlomo
The patient’s autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants. Jack Kevorkian
Accountability for results requires room for personal judgment and decision making. Brian Dive
High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make. Henry Kissinger
The brain is a great integrator of information, so most parts of this organ have an input into every decision we make. It is also extremely adaptable and, like all good computers, is adept at moving information around from one area to another, depending on circumstances. Dr Harry Barry
When you invest your time, you make a goal and a decision of something that you want to accomplish. Whether it’s make good grades in school, be a good athlete, be a good person, go down and do some community service and help somebody who’s in need, whatever it is you choose to do, you’re investing your time in that. Nick Saban
If we don’t somehow get rescued from our assumptions about life, they devour us. Rescue involves recognizing that the assumptions we so stubbornly cling to as truths are, in fact, decisions we have made about what should be true based on past experiences. Brad Blanton
We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision. C. S. Lewis
Sometimes it’s important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it’s essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow. Douglas Pagels
We think, each of us, that we’re much more rational than we are. And we think that we make our decisions because we have good reasons to make them. Even when it’s the other way around. We believe in the reasons, because we’ve already made the decision. Daniel Kahneman
How you react to situations is your personal choice. It is your decision, and yours alone, to determine the importance you give to any situation. Catherine Pulsifer
A soulmate is someone whom, when you meet, without thinking without letting your neocortex play into the decision you feel an instant familiarity, a sense of connection, a longing. Karen Salmansohn
It’s a decision I make every morning when I wake up. I have a choice; I can spend the day in bed recounting the difficulty I have with the parts of my body that no longer work, or get out of bed and be thankful for the ones that do. Author
Unfortunately, we can never truly know if we’re making the right decision. What we do know is that wherever we are, that’s where the Light wants us to be. It’s the best place for us to be now. And as long as we don’t try to control the situation, then we won’t end up in the place we shouldn’t be. Yehuda Berg
I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude. Charles Swindoll
The language of judicial decision is mainly the language of logic. And the logical method and form flatter that longing for certainty and for repose which is in every human mind. But certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man. Oliver Wendell Holmes
Making the choice to live a positive life is a daily, sometimes minute by minute decision. Debbie Dickerson
The most important decision I’ve made in business? The choices of people I have around me. When I first started I brought everybody with me, my homies from the neighborhood, criminals. I just said, Come on everybody, we made it.’ Then I had to realize we didn’t make it. I made it. Snoop Dogg
Great decision making comes from the ability to create the time and space to think rationally and intelligently about the issue at hand. Graham Allcot
Life is like the monkey bars you have to let go to move forward. Once you make the decision to leap into entrepreneurship, be sure to loosen your grasp on old concepts so you can swing your way to new ones. Leah Busque
