Decisiveness Quotes

• The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.

  Napoleon Hill

  Literature, Way, Next

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01”, p.140, Lulu.com

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• Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Freedom, War, 4th Of July

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• A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Inspirational, Leadership, Confidence

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• Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.

  George Canning

  Business, Mistake, Failure

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• Luck favors the bold.  Leaders must fearlessly exploit the Secret of Decisiveness.  Act boldly at critical moments.

  Toyotomi Hideyoshi

  Motivational, Leadership, Secret

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• The one word that makes a good manager - decisiveness.

  Lee Iacocca

  Decision, Management, Economy

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• If I had to sum up in a word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act.

  Lee Iacocca

  Education, Business, Procrastination

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• 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

  Mistake, Long, Decision

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• Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Funny, Sarcastic, Yield

  Charles Caleb COLTON (1849). “L.P.”, p.157

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• You should never go to a meeting or make a telephone call without a clear idea of what you are trying to achieve.

  Steve Jobs

  Ideas, Discipline, Trying

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• Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

  Brian Tracy

  Decision, Just Keep Moving

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• Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Business

  Twitter post from Jul 20, 2015

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• The social repression and ideological repression of women began with depriving them of education, political decisiveness, mobility and essentially creating sexual slavery.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Creating, Political

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• Almost any decision is better than no decision -- just keep moving.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Moving, Decision, Keep Moving

  FaceBook post by Danielle LaPorte from May 01, 2012

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• It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.2, Courier Corporation

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• Time Management Tips: The perpetual processing of the same temptation is both dangerous and time-wasting. Cycling and recycling the same temptation (instead of rejecting such blandishment out of hand) is not only to risk one's soul, again and again, but is to bring on fatigue, so that the Adversary may be able to do indirectly what we will not let him do directly. A lack of decisiveness in dealing with temptation ties up our thought processes and prevents us from doing good with the time allotted to us.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Ties, Cycling, Hands

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• The world is now aware that the most unavoidable and most dangerous weapon that exists is the blind decisiveness of a man ready to sacrifice his life for an obscure cause.

  Omar Bongo

  Sacrifice, Men, World

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• You know, I think my biggest concern [if Mitt is elected], obviously, would just be for his mental well-being. I have all the confidence in the world in his ability, in his decisiveness and his leadership skills, in his understanding of the economy, in his understanding of what's missing right now in the economy - you know, pieces that are missing to get this jump-started. So for me I think it would just be the emotional part of it.

  Ann Romney

  Thinking, Emotional, Skills

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• Decisiveness is often the art of timely cruelty.

  Henry Becque

  Art, Cruelty, Timely

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• Make the decision and say, "I'm not letting that worry in. I'm done being upset when my plans don't work out. I'm not letting that stress in." Negative thoughts will still come to your mind, but you don't have to let them into your spirit.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Stress, Work

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• The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

  Nikola Tesla

  Thinking, Insanity, Curiosity

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• Reflection doesn't take anything away from decisiveness, from being a person of action. In fact, it generates the inner toughness that you need to be an effective person of action - to be a leader.

  Peter Koestenbaum

  Reflection, Leader, Needs

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• On the rare occasions when our dreams succeed and achieve perfection - most dreams are bungled - the are symbolic chains of scene and images in place of a narrative poetic language; they circumscribe our experiences or expectations or situations with such poetic boldness and decisiveness that in the morning we are always amazed when we remember our dreams.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dream, Morning, Perfection

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• Always you find that the more decisive event wins so my father's sort of annual decisiveness which came upon him on the Day of Atonement every year, he suddenly remembered that he was Jewish.

  Janet Suzman

  Father, Winning, Years

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• Gradually the conviction gained recognition that all knowledge about things is exclusively a working-over of the raw material furnished by the senses. ... Galileo and Hume first upheld this principle with full clarity and decisiveness.

  Albert Einstein

  Principles, Raw Materials, Firsts

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.21, Broadway Books

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