Decision Quotes - Page 9

• 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

  Events, Relentless, Courses

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• Although every man believes that his decisions and resolutions involve the most multifarious factors, in reality they are mere oscillation between flight and longing.

  Hermann Broch

  Believe, Reality, Men

  Hermann Broch (2011). “The Sleepwalkers”, p.468, Vintage

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• I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Inspirational, Inspiring

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• Never blame another person for your personal choices - you are still the one who must live out the consequences of your choices.

  Caroline Myss

  Recovery, Loss, Choices

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• The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

  Abraham Lincoln

  People, Servant, Reverse

  Abraham Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln Association (Springfield, Ill.) (1953). “Collected Works: 1860-1861”

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• When you need to make a decision, don't let your emotions vote.

  Joyce Meyer

  Needs, Emotion, Vote

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• Character cannot be summoned at the moment of crisis if it has been squandered by years of compromise and rationalization. The only testing ground for the heroic is the mundane. The only preparation for that one profound decision which can change a life, or even a nation, is those hundreds of half-conscious, self defining, seemingly insignificant decisions made in private. Habit is the daily battleground of character.

  Dan Coats

  Character, Self, Years

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• The time has come to get clear about who you are and what you choose. There must come moments in every person's life when a decision is necessary. A big decision. A major choice. Such a time is now. What you get to choose today is who you are and who you choose to be, and what you wish to experience in your life. Remember, not to decide is to decide.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Choices, Wish, Today

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Mar 26, 2014

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• No decision has been made unless carrying it out in specific steps has become someone's work assignment and responsibility.

  Peter Drucker

  Work, Responsibility, Steps

  Peter Drucker, Harvard Business Review (2016). “The Peter F. Drucker Reader: Selected Articles from the Father of Modern Management Thinking”, p.59, Harvard Business Review Press

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• The worst thing you can do is nothing.

  Terry Pratchett

  Motivational, Change, Positive

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• Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self - a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change - the willful act of making the change, doing something.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Change, Dedication, Self

  Leo F. Buscaglia (1972). “Love”, Fawcett

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• Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Style, Precision

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• If you have a 2 or 3 year old who is not talking, you must start an early intervention program. The worst thing you can do with an autistic 3 year old is to do nothing.

  Temple Grandin

  Motivational, Change, Positive

  "The Most Inspiring Bits of Temple Grandin’s Reddit AMA" by Emily Shire, www.thedailybeast.com. November 17, 2014.

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• Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.

  Sophocles

  Quick Decisions, Unsafe

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• Once - many, many years ago - I thought I made a wrong decision. Of course, it turned out that I had been right all along. But I was wrong to have thought that I was wrong

  John Foster Dulles

  Years, Made, Courses

  Quoted in Henri Temuanka, Facing the Music (1973)

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• I'm a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife

  John Lithgow

  Boyfriend, Fun, Dad

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• In Hungary, acting is a profession. In America, it is a decision.

  Bela Lugosi

  Usa, America, Acting

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• He who can not support himself, can not take his own decision

  Gamal Abdel Nasser

  Support, Can Not

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• Frozen in fear, you avoid responsibility because you think your experience is beyond your control. This stance keeps you from making decisions, solving problems, or going after what you want in life.

  David Emerald Womeldorff

  Responsibility, Thinking, Experience

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• Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly?

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Political, Doe, Unjust

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• I think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case if the court made a decision based on its perception of public opinion.

  Samuel Alito

  Thinking, Perception, Public Opinion

  U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. January 10, 2006.

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• My nomadic childhood dramatically fed my eventual decision to be an actor, but not in the way you might think

  Josh Lucas

  Thinking, Childhood, Actors

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• There's always a reaction based on fear. People assume if you're criticizing a decision to go to war, then you're saying something against the soldiers-which is not the case

  Ed Harris

  War, People, Soldier

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• I very much prefer the balance in a scene to standing out and so you have to make a decision

  William Hurt

  Balance, Scene, Standing Out

  Interview with Daniel Robert Epstein, suicidegirls.com. September 18, 2005.

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• I've made this decision not to talk to the press about anything that's gone on in my life, but just to write music about it. They can interpret it themselves.

  Bijou Phillips

  Writing, Gone, Made

  Interview with Bruce Labruce, www.indexmagazine.com. 2000.

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