Decisions Quotes

Clinton took very tough decisions on the economy.

My job is to get people back to work and make tough decisions. I've been willing to do it.

The real process of making decisions, of gathering support, of developing opinions, happens before the meeting or after.

If we don't make tough decisions today our children are going to have to make much, much tougher decisions tomorrow.

When you know something is wrong for you, you have to make difficult decisions and trust your instincts.

If you make the tough decisions, people will hate you today. But they will thank you for generations.

The timing of your decision is just as important as the decision you make.

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

Jump or stay in the boat.

We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.

Of two evils choose the prettier.

All models have faults - that doesnt mean you cant use them as tools for making decisions.

At a time when we're having to take such difficult decisions about how to cut back without damaging the things that matter the most, we should strain every sinew to cut error, waste and fraud.

Freedom of expression - in particular, freedom of the press - guarantees popular participation in the decisions and actions of government, and popular participation is the essence of our democracy.

In our education system, we are taught to munch figures and remember them for lifetime. But does it help? We are not taught how to make decisions.

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

One faces the future with one's past.

In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed by the deep inner needs of our nature.

I look back on my 20s. It's supposed to be the prime of your life, the most vital, the most beautiful. But you're making your critical decisions and sometimes your most critical mistakes.

The small choices and decisions we make a hundred times a day add up to determining the kind of world we live in.

Faith is a decision we make about where we are going to put our trust.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.

Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.

The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.

Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.

I realised early on that there were two groups of people in the world: those who made the decisions and those who had the decisions made for them. I wanted to be one of the decision-makers.

Good and evil increase at compound interest. That's why the little decisions we make every day are of infinite importance.

When you know your reason for existence, it should effect the decisions you make.

Most people think small, because most people are afraid of success, afraid of making decisions, afraid of winning. And that gives people like me a great advantage.

Another idea that is changing is that the leader must be one who can make quick decisions. The leader to-day is often one who thinks out his decisions very slowly.

Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Wisdom consists in being able to distinguish among dangers and make a choice of the least harmful.

Each decision we make, each action we take, is born out of an intention.

Life is filled with difficult decisions, he thought. And winners are those who make them.

I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it's time America was run like a business.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Deciding to commit yourself to long term results rather than short term fixes is as important as any decision you'll make in your lifetime.

I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.

To be able to love and live in freedom means to be able to make godly decisions. To make godly decisions we have to surrender our egos and all the falsity and shame that goes with it.

Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.

Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.

It does influence every part of your life and it influences every decision you make. (speaking about faith)

No matter what tricks you use or what decisions you make, go easy on yourself as someone who's on a never-ending quest for improvement.

Success emerges from the quality of the decisions we make and the quantity of luck we receive. We can't control luck. But we can control the way we make choices.

Important decisions are risky. They should be controversial. Acclamation means that nobody has done the homework.

There's no difference between one's killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It's exactly the same thing, or even worse.

Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today's world. Weak managers are the problem. Weak managers destroy jobs.

Young people in the business have grown up and made the wrong decisions, or bad decisions, and haven't been good role models. To be someone that people look up to is important to me.