What happens to us depends on the choices we make. You can go down the wrong path if you make the wrong choices, but you can go down the right path if you make good decisions. Learn from your mistakes and try to do better next time, because the choices you make every day will shape your life. May these Decision making quotes encourage you to make good choices in life so you can live a great life.
No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train.
-AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT
The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.
-HENRI-FREDERIC AMIEL
The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.
-GLORIA ANZALDUA
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. .
-ISSAC ASIMOV
You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die, or when. You can decide how you’re going to live now.
-JOAN BAEZ
The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.
-GEORGES BATAILLE
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-THOMAS ARNOLD BENNETT
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
As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
-NOAM CHOMSKY
Good plans shape good decisions. That’s why good planning helps to make elusive dreams come true.
-LESTER ROBERT BITTEL
Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.
-STEPHEN R. COVEY
Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not.
-PHILIP BAYARD COSBY
The best quote you’ve never heard about making decisions
The process of making a decision is finding and choosing between different options based on the values, preferences, and beliefs of the person making the decision. Deeply moving quotes about making decisions will change the way you think and help you through any situation in life.
To decide to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life.
-ARBIE M. DALE
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.
-ROBYN DAVIDSON
The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.
-ROBYN DAVIDSON
Every great decision creates ripples–like a huge boulder dropped in a lake. The ripples merge, rebound off the banks in unforeseeable ways. The heavier the decision, the larger the waves, the more uncertain the consequences.
-BENJAMIN DIZZY DISRAELI
When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.
-THOMAS ALVA EDISON
Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.
-TRYON EDWARDS
It is the theory that decides what we can observe.
-ALBERT EINSTEIN
Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you 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 the end, requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs.
-RALPH WALDO EMERSON
You’ve got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference.
-CHRISTINE MARIE EVERT
The most decisive actions of our life — I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future — are, more often than not, unconsidered.
-ANDRE GIDE
My basic principle is that you don’t make decisions because they are easy; you don’t make them because they are cheap; you don’t make them because they’re popular; you make them because *they’re right*.
-THEODORE M. HESBURGH
Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions.
-KENNETH HILDEBRAND
If you play it safe in life you’ve decided that you don’t want to grow any more.
-SHIRLEY MOUNT HUFSTEDLER
It’s better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.
-MARILYN MOATS KENNEDY
When important decisions have to be taken, the natural anxiety to come to a right decision will often keep you awake. Nothing, however, is more conducive to healthful sleep than plenty of open air.
-SIR JOHN LUBBOCK
Freedom is being able to live with the consequences of your decisions.
-JAMES X. MULLEN
An executive is a person who always decides sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
-JOHN H. PATTERSON
If you choose not to decide — you still have made a choice.
-NEIL PEART