Making Decisions Quotes - Page 2

• The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome'. You must be willing to fire.

  T. Boone Pickens

  Life, Leadership, Fall

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• To get anywhere, or even to live a long time, a man has to guess, and guess right, over and over again, without enough data for a logical answer.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Time, Men, Data

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.24, Penguin

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• Every decision you make is a mistake.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Business, Mistake, Optimistic

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• We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Inspirational, Life, Running

  See Hightower 2

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• When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take choose the bolder.

  William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Motivational, Patience, Spring

  Robert H. Schuller (1993). “Robert H Schuller: The Inspirational Writings : Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do/Tough Minded Faith for Tender Hearted People”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• Decision is the spark that ignites action. Until a decision is made nothing happens.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Uplifting, Giving Up, Life Is Hard

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• Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.

  James C. Collins

  Inspirational, Success, Business

  "Turn on, tune in - or drown in a sea of mediocrity" by Simon Caulkin, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2006.

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• I also remember the moment my life changed, the moment I finally said, "I've had it!" I know I'm much more than I'm demonstrating mentally, emotionally, and physically in my life. I made a decision in that moment which was to alter my life forever. I decided to change virtually every aspect of my life. I decided I would never again settle for less that I can be.

  Tony Robbins

  Life, Decision, Forever

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• Decision is the spark that ignites action. Until a decision is made, nothing happens.... Decision is the courageous facing of issues, knowing that if they are not faced, problems will remain forever unanswered.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Knowing, Issues, Decision

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• I hate to see things done by halves. If it be right, do it boldly.

  Bernard Gilpin

  Hate, Decision, Done

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 187, 1895.

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• Don't fall victim to what I call the ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome. You must be willing to fire.

  George S. Patton

  Fall, Fire, Decisions You Make

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

  Thomas Merton

  Real, Decisions You Make, Self

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.25, Shambhala Publications

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• You can do anything you decide to do.

  Amelia Earhart

  Decision, Process Of Change, Tenacity

  "The Official Website of Amelia Earhart/ Quotes". www.ameliaearhart.com.

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• Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Patience, Spring, Decisions You Make

  Robert H. Schuller (1993). “Robert H Schuller: The Inspirational Writings : Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do/Tough Minded Faith for Tender Hearted People”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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  It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

  Thomas Sowell

  Business, Stupid, Government

  "Wake Up, Parents!". Column at Jewish World Review, www.jewishworldreview.com. August 18, 2000.

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• It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Greatness, What Matters

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jun 02, 2016

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• You cannot make progress without making decisions.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Decisions You Make, Progress

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jan 10, 2017

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• A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Powerful, Real

  Twitter post from Mar 02, 2016

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• It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ch. 18 (1999)

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  I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “An Effective Life: Inspirational Philosophy from Dr. Covey’s Life”, p.88, FranklinCovey Co.

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• Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision.

  Tony Robbins

  Life, Motivational, Change

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

  Khalil Gibran

  Life, Happiness, Success

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

  Sigmund Freud

  Choices, Decision, Important

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