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Decisions QuotesFamous Decisions quotes by popular authors such as George Eliot, Dag Hammarskjold, George S. Patton, Viktor Frankl, James Lane Allen and others.
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[highlight-text]History is a stern judge.
Svetlana Alliluyeva
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[highlight-text]Not to decide is to decide.
Harvey Cox
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[highlight-text]To choose is also to begin.
Starhawk
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[highlight-text]Decisions determine destiny.
Frederick Speakman
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[highlight-text]You cannot have it both ways.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Of two evils choose the less.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]When in doubt take more time.
John Zimmerman
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[highlight-text]There is no data on the future.
Laurel Cutler
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[highlight-text]You cannot serve God and Mammon.
Bible
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[highlight-text]He who has a choice has trouble.
Dutch Proverb
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[highlight-text]The soul of dispatch is decision.
William Hazlitt
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[highlight-text]Of two evils choose the prettier.
Carolyn Wells
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[highlight-text]Choices are the hinges of destiny.
Edwin Markham
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[highlight-text]A door must either be shut or open.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Optimism is an intellectual choice.
Diana Schneider
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[highlight-text]I learn by going where I have to go.
Theodore Roethke
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[highlight-text]Life is the sum of all your choices.
Albert Camus
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[highlight-text]One faces the future with one's past.
Pearl S. Buck
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[highlight-text]You cannot have your cake and eat it.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]If you think too long you think wrong.
Jim Kaat
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[highlight-text]Deliberation often loses a good chance.
Latin Proverb
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[highlight-text]The difficulty of life is in the choice.
George Moore
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[highlight-text]How dangerous can false reasoning prove!
Sophocles
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[highlight-text]Decisions are made by those who show up.
Aaron Sorkin
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[highlight-text]You cannot sell the cow and sup the milk.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Time has told me less than I need to know.
Gwen Harwood
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[highlight-text]Statistics are no substitute for judgment.
Henry Clay
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[highlight-text]Between two stools one sits on the ground.
French Proverb
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[highlight-text]You are the one who must choose your place.
James Lane Allen
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[highlight-text]Where bad's the best bad must be the choice.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]He who reflects too much will achieve little.
J. C. F. von Schiller
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[highlight-text]The opportunity is often lost by deliberating.
Publilius Syrus
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[highlight-text]Better to be without logic than without feeling.
Charlotte Bronte
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[highlight-text]Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch
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[highlight-text]Reason with most people means their own opinions.
William Hazlitt
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[highlight-text]A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved.
Dorothea Brande
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[highlight-text]Where an opinion is general it is usually correct.
Jane Austen
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[highlight-text]Decide on what you think is right and stick to it.
George Eliot
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[highlight-text]Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.
Alexander Hamilton
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[highlight-text]You can only predict things after they've happened.
Eugene Ionesco
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[highlight-text]In case of doubt decide in favor of what is correct.
Karl Kraus
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[highlight-text]Life is just a series of trying to make up your mind.
Timothy Fuller
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[highlight-text]Both choices are painful but only one is therapeutic.
Albert M. Wells
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[highlight-text]Pick battles big enough to matter small enough to win.
Jonathan Kozel
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[highlight-text]No question is ever settled until it is settled right.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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[highlight-text]The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
George Eliot
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[highlight-text]Necessity relieves us from the embarrassment of choice.
Vauvenargues
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[highlight-text]Look for your choices pick the best one then go with it.
Pat Riley
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[highlight-text]We don't have enough time to premeditate all our actions.
Vauvenargues
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[highlight-text]It is the heart always that sees before the head can see.
Thomas Carlyle
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[highlight-text]As a man thinketh so is he and as a man chooseth so is he.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]The mania of thinking renders one unfit for every activity.
Anatole France
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[highlight-text]Necessity is not an established fact but an interpretation.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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[highlight-text]The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.
George Eliot
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[highlight-text]Here's a rule I recommend. Never practice two vices at once.
Tallulah Bankhead
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[highlight-text]Once a decision was made I did not worry about it afterward.
Harry S. Truman
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[highlight-text]Rules of society are nothing; one's conscience is the umpire.
Madame Dudevant
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[highlight-text]How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt?
Harry S. Truman
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[highlight-text]Ever notice that 'what the hell' is always the right decision?
Marilyn Monroe
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[highlight-text]A power greater than any human being helped make this decision.
Herbert J. Steifel
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[highlight-text]Nothing is so exhausting as indecision and nothing is so futile.
Bertrand Russell
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[highlight-text]We cannot do everything at once but we can do something at once.
Calvin Coolidge
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[highlight-text]Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.
Jose Ortega
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[highlight-text]A man must be able to cut a knot for everything cannot be untied.
Henri Frederic Amiel
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[highlight-text]Many persons of high intelligence have notoriously poor judgement.
Sydney J. Harris
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[highlight-text]When faith is supported by facts or by logic it ceases to be faith.
Edith Hamilton
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[highlight-text]Some persons are very decisive when it comes to avoiding decisions.
Brendan Francis
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[highlight-text]Somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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[highlight-text]There is only one answer to destruc-tiveness and that is creativity.
Sylvia Ashton-Warner
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[highlight-text]Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion on slender evidence.
John Henry Cardinal Newman
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[highlight-text]Full maturity ... is achieved by realizing that you have choices to make.
Angela Barron McBride
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[highlight-text]It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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[highlight-text]Men and women everywhere must exercise deliberate selection to live wisely.
Robert Grant
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[highlight-text]Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
Charles Caleb Colton
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[highlight-text]We have resolved to endure the unendurable and suffer what is insufferable.
Emperor Hirohito
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[highlight-text]When you have to make a choice and don't make it that is in itself a choice.
William James
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[highlight-text]Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
Samuel Butler
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[highlight-text]Wherever you see a successful business someone once made a courageous decision.
Peter F. Drucker
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[highlight-text]I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst take the risk.
Dr. Joyce Brothers
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[highlight-text]Logic pervades the world; the limits of the world are also the limits of logic.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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[highlight-text]Often greater risk is involved in postponement than in making a wrong decision.
Harry A. Hopf
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[highlight-text]You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place.
James Lane Allen
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[highlight-text]I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude.
Judith M. Knowlton
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[highlight-text]We spend our days in deliberating and we end them without coming to any resolve.
L'Estrange
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[highlight-text]Nothing is more difficult and therefore more precious than to be able to decide.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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[highlight-text]When one bases his life on principle 99 percent of his decisions are already made.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Alternatives and particularly desirable alternatives grow only on imaginary trees.
Saul Bellow
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[highlight-text]It is better to arm and strengthen your hero than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.
Anne Bronte
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[highlight-text]Nothing at all will be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Samuel Johnson
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[highlight-text]Our deeds still travel with us from afar and what we have been makes us what we are.
George Eliot
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[highlight-text]No matter how lovesick a woman is she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along.
Dr. Joyce Brothers
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[highlight-text]The most important fact about Spaceship Earth: an instruction book didn't come with it.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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[highlight-text]False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.
Horace Mann
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[highlight-text]There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Edith Wharton
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[highlight-text]In not making the decision you've made one. Not doing something is the same as doing it.
Ivan Bloch
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[highlight-text]To know what has to be done then do it comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.
Sir William Osier
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[highlight-text]We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
Dag Hammarskjold
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[highlight-text]Do not wait for ideal circumstances nor for the best opportunities; they will never come.
Janet Erskine Stuart
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[highlight-text]There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
William James
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[highlight-text]No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.
Henry Kissinger
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[highlight-text]We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.
Thomas Merton
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[highlight-text]Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge fitter to bruise than to polish.
Anne Bradstreet
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[highlight-text]Our danger is not too few but too many options ... to be puzzled by innumerable alternatives.
Sir Richard Livingstone
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[highlight-text]Decision and determination are the engineer and fireman of our train to opportunity and success.
Burt Lawlor
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[highlight-text]Wisdom consists in being able to distinguish among dangers and make a choice of the least harmful.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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[highlight-text]Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard but takes the one before it and plays the game.
Wendell Phillips
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[highlight-text]When you cannot make up your mind between two evenly balanced courses of action choose the bolder.
W. J. Slim
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[highlight-text]One must either accept some theory or else believe one's own instinct or follow the world's opinion.
Gertrude Stein
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[highlight-text]Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.
William Feather
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[highlight-text]No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
Agnes de Mille
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[highlight-text]Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by traffic from both sides.
Margaret Thatcher
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[highlight-text]If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.
Ben Nicholas
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[highlight-text]The tendency of modern science is to reduce proof to absurdity by continually reducing absurdity to proof.
Samuel Butler
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[highlight-text]The last if not the greatest of the human freedoms: to choose their own attitude in any given circumstance.
Bruno Bettelheim
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[highlight-text]From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go.
Tom Hanks
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[highlight-text]You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.
Joan Baez
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[highlight-text]He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
Horace
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[highlight-text]Every year if not every day we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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[highlight-text]One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
Arthur Christopher Benson
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[highlight-text]God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please - you can never have both.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.
Theodore Roosevelt
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[highlight-text]Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be what he will become in the next moment.
Viktor Frankl
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[highlight-text]Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement the less perfect our success.
B. C. Forbes
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[highlight-text]Choose always the way that seems the best however rough it may be; custom will soon render it easy and agreeable.
Pythagoras
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[highlight-text]Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.
Jawaharlal Nehru
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[highlight-text]It is always thus impaled by a state of mind which is destined not to last that we make our irrevocable decisions.
Marcel Proust
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[highlight-text]The last of the human freedoms: to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances to choose one's own way.
Viktor Frankl
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[highlight-text]It is always thus impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last that we make our irrevocable decisions.
Marcel Proust
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[highlight-text]You must not change one thing one pebble one grain of sand until you know what good and evil will follow on that act.
Ursula K. LeGuin
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[highlight-text]What I emphasize is for people to make choices based not on fear but on what really gives them a sense of fulfillment.
Pauline Rose Chance
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[highlight-text]A decision is an action you must take when you have information so incomplete that the answer does not suggest itself.
Arthur Radford
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[highlight-text]You wouldn't want to be caught wearing cheap perfume would you? Then why do you want to wear cheap perfume on your conduct?
Margaret Culkin Banning
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[highlight-text]I couldn't claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil but when you descend into hell you have to be very careful.
Kathleen Raine
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[highlight-text]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.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
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[highlight-text]A decision is the action an executive must take when he has information so incomplete that the answer does not suggest itself.
Arthur William Radford
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[highlight-text]Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide... And the choice goes by forever t'wixt that darkness and that light.
James Russell Lowell
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[highlight-text]The difference between weakness and wickedness is much less than people suppose; and the consequences are nearly always the same.
Lady Marguerite Blessington
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[highlight-text]The will to be totally rational is the will to be made out of glass and steel: and to use others as if they were glass and steel.
Marge Piercy
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[highlight-text]Once the 'what' is decided the 'how' always follows. We must not make the 'how' an excuse for not facing and accepting the 'what.'
Pearl S. Buck
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[highlight-text]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.
Sir Arthur Helps
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[highlight-text]Form the habit of making decisions when your spirit is fresh ... to let dark moods lead is like choosing cowards to command armies.
Charles Horton Cooley
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[highlight-text]Imagination took the reins and Reason slow-paced though surefooted was unequal to a race with so eccentric and flighty a companion.
Fanny Burney
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[highlight-text]If decisions were a choice between alternatives decisions would come easy. Decision is the selection and formulation of alternatives.
Kenneth Burke
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[highlight-text]Decision is a sharp knife that cuts clean and straight; indecision a dull one that hacks and tears and leaves ragged edges behind it.
Gordon Graham
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[highlight-text]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.
Herbert V. Prochnow
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[highlight-text]When possible make the decisions now even if action is in the future. A revised decision usually is better than one reached at the last moment.
William B. Given
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[highlight-text]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.
John Foster
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[highlight-text]We lose the fear of making decisions great and small as we realize that should our choice prove wrong we can if we will learn from the experience.
Bill W.
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[highlight-text]Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the percentage people you would be perfectly comfortable.
Bobby Bragan
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[highlight-text]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.
Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher
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[highlight-text]The best we can do is size up the chances calculate the risks involved estimate our ability to deal with them and then make our plans with confidence.
Henry Ford
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[highlight-text]She knew in her heart that to be without optimism that core of reasonless hope in the spirit rather than the brain was a fatal flaw the seed of death.
Anne Perry
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[highlight-text]The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes a wrong one ... the more active and swift the latter is the further he will go astray.
Francis Bacon
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[highlight-text]In the three years I played ball we won six lost seventeen and tied two. Some statistician ... calculated that we won 75 percent of the games we didn't lose.
Roger M. Blough
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[highlight-text]Many of life's circumstances are created by three basic choices: the disciplines you choose to keep the people you chose to be with and the laws you choose to obey.
Charles Millhuff
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[highlight-text]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.
William Graham Sumner
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[highlight-text]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.
Norbert Weiner
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[highlight-text]The percentage of mistakes in quick decisions is no greater than in long-drawn-out vacillations and the effect of decisiveness itself 'makes things go' and creates confidence.
Anne O'Hare McCormick
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[highlight-text]A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the results of sudden impulses and accident than of that reason of which we so much boast.
Peter Cooper
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[highlight-text]There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return.
Dag Hammarskjold
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[highlight-text]Choice of attention ... is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences whatever they may be.
W. H. Auden
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[highlight-text]If you do everything you should do and do not do anything you should not do you will according to the best available statistics live exactly eighteen hours longer than you would otherwise.
Dr. Logain Clendening
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[highlight-text]In each action we must look beyond the action at our past present and future state and at others whom it affects and see the relation of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.
Blaise Pascal
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[highlight-text]Decide which is the line of conduct that presents the fewest drawbacks and then follow it out as being the best one because one never finds anything perfectly pure and unmixed or exempt from danger.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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[highlight-text]So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties it may be too late.
Lee Iacocca
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[highlight-text]Decisions particularly important ones have always made me sleepy perhaps because I know that I will have to make them by instinct and thinking things out is only what other people tell me I should do.
Lillian Hellman
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[highlight-text]The moment a question comes to your mind see yourself mentally taking hold of it and disposing of it. In that moment... you learn to become the decider and not the vacillator. Thus you build character.
H. Van Anderson
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[highlight-text]Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation and without being allowed the preliminary trials the failures and botches that are essential for the training of a mere beginner.
Lewis Mumford
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[highlight-text]Each person has a literature inside them. But when people lose language when they have to experiment with putting their thoughts together on the spot-that's what I love most. That's where character lives.
Anna Deavere Smith
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[highlight-text]I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side.
Katharine Butler Hathaway
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[highlight-text]Of all paths a man could strike into there is at any given moment a best path which here and now it were of all things wisest for him to do. To find this path and walk in it is the one thing needful for him.
Thomas Carlyle
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[highlight-text]Every great decision creates ripples - like a huge boulder dropped in a lake. The ripples merge rebound off the banks in unforseeable ways. The heavier the decision the larger the waves the more uncertain the consequences.
Benjamin Disraeli
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]You decide you'll wait for your pitch. Then as the ball starts toward the plate you think about your stance. And then you think about your swing. And then you realize that the ball that went past you for a strike was your pitch.
Bobby Murcer
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[highlight-text]I get a little angry about this highhanded scrapping of the look of things. What else have we to go by? How else can the average person form an opinion of a girl's sense of values or even of her chastity except by the looks of her conduct?
Margaret Culkin Banning
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[highlight-text]There comes a time when you've got to say 'Let's get off our asses and go ...' I have always found that if I move with 75 percent or more of the facts I usually never regret it. It's the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy.
Lee Iacocca
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[highlight-text]The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision turn off all your fears and go ahead.
George S. Patton
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[highlight-text]In forty hours I shall be in battle with little information and on the spur of the moment will have to make the most momentous decisions. But I believe that one's spirit enlarges with responsibility and that with God's help I shall make them and make them right.
George S. Patton
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[highlight-text]When we are debating an issue loyalty means giving me your honest opinion whether you think I'll like it or not. Disagreement at this stage stimulates me. But once a decision has been made the debate ends. From that point on loyalty means executing the decision as if it were your own.
Colin Powell
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[highlight-text]Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and inexcusable traitor both to yourself and to your country let men label you as they may.
Mark Twain
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[highlight-text]When confronted with two courses of action I jot down on a piece of paper all the arguments in favor of each one then on the opposite side I write the arguments against each one. Then by weighing the arguments pro and con and cancelling them out one against the other I take the course indicated by what remains.
Benjamin Franklin
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[highlight-text]Continually one faces the horrible matter of making decisions. The solution ... is as far as possible to avoid conscious rational decisions and choices; simply to do what you find yourself doing; to float in the great current of life with as little friction as possible; to allow things to settle themselves as indeed they do with the most infallible certainty.
Christopher Morley
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[highlight-text]Not all of your decisions will be correct. None of us is perfect. But if you get into the habit of making decisions experience will develop your judgment to a point where more and more of your decisions will be right. After all it is better to be right 51 percent of the time and get something done than it is to get nothing done because you fear to reach a decision.
H. W. Andrews
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[highlight-text]When making a decision of minor importance I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters however such as the choice of a mate or a profession the decision should come from the unconscious from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life we should be governed I think by the deep inner needs of our nature.
Sigmund Freud