Decisions Quotes

Pick battles big enough to matter small enough to win.

I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst take the risk.

When one bases his life on principle 99 percent of his decisions are already made.

Your mindset matters. It affects everything - from the business and investment decisions you make, to the way you raise your children, to your stress levels and overall well-being.

You cannot serve God and Mammon.

When you cannot make up your mind between two evenly balanced courses of action choose the bolder.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

You cannot have it both ways.

Of two evils choose the less.

Where bad's the best bad must be the choice.

Both choices are painful but only one is therapeutic.

A man without decision can never be said to belong to himself he is as a wave of the sea or a feather in the air which every breeze blows about.

Decision is a sharp knife that cuts clean and straight indecision a dull one that hacks and tears and leaves ragged edges behind it.

In not making the decision you've made one. Not doing something is the same as doing it.

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.

You can only predict things after they've happened.

No one knows what he can to do until he tries.

After a battle is over people talk a lot about how decisions were methodically reached but actually there's always a hell of a lot of groping around.

No man who has not sat in the assemblies of men can know the light odd and uncertain ways in which decisions are often arrived at.

A man must be able to cut a knot for everything cannot be untied.

Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide ... And the choice goes by forever t'wixt that darkness and that light.

Optimism is an intellectual choice.

There is one quality more important than know-how.... This is know-how by which we determine not only how to accomplish our purposes but what our purposes are to be.

Destiny is not a matter of chance it is a matter of choice it is not a thing to be waited for it is a thing to be achieved.

What must be shall be and that which is a necessity to him that struggles is little more than choice to him that is willing.

A wiser rule would be to make up your mind soberly what you want peace or war and then to get ready for what you want for what we prepare for is what we shall get.

Once a decision was made I did not worry about it afterward.

The last if not the greatest of the human freedoms: to choose their own attitude in any given circumstance.

He who has a choice has trouble.

I do as much comedy as I possibly can, but I'm basically limited by the imagination of the secretaries who make the decisions.

Such decisions will be far reaching and difficult. But you never lacked courage in the past. Your courage is now needed for the future.

I strongly believe that the Legislature should not be interfering in private medical decisions.

The way we work in public health is, we make the best recommendations and decisions based on the best available data.

I pulled back on the divorce because there is no rush for it. For medical decisions and a ton of other things, it's just smarter that it's put on hold.

Knowing your genetic health risks will help you make better decisions.

Obamacare has made the government part of our health care decisions. The IRS controls all of our financial information. The NSA apparently sees everything else.

Good political leadership for me involves getting the big decisions right - however difficult, however controversial, however potentially divisive - and then being able to take people with you.

The ability to remain calm and focused in stressful situations is central to making positive decisions.

When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier.

Contemplating, thinking hard, I don't make judgement but i have decided

The court makes an amazing amount of decisions that ought to be made by the people.

Give people enough guidance to make the decisions you want them to make. Don't tell them what to do, but encourage them to do what is best.

Anger does not solve problems - anger only makes things worse. I go by the old saying, 'Don't make important decisions when you're angry.'

When you're in a crisis of, you know, tremendous proportions, it's beyond any human capability to control, you just make the best decisions you can, and you just hope that your intuition is correct.

The more we learn, the more we will be confronted with decisions that we've never had to make before about life, about death, about parenting.

The decisions we make about communication security today will determine the kind of society we live in tomorrow.

When I get into a bad mood, I do sports and then everything's OK. And then I go and make decisions, however painful they may be.

We should make decisions in life with our hearts, not our brains, not only in music but in daily life.

I don't belong to anyone else but myself. I have to make my own decisions. Happiness is defined by me.

Our life is the sum total of all the decisions we make every day, and those decisions are determined by our priorities.