Making Tough Decisions Quotes

• In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.4, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties.

  Elia Kazan

  Business, Decision, Way

  Elia Kazan, William Baer (2000). “Elia Kazan: Interviews”, p.161, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.57, 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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• If we don't make tough decisions today our children are going to have to make much, much tougher decisions tomorrow.

  Paul Ryan

  Children, Decision, Today

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• Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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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 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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• The worst thing you can do is nothing.

  Terry Pratchett

  Motivational, Change, Positive

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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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• Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

  George S. Patton

  Leadership, Military, Bad Ass

  "Pocket Patriot: Quotes from American Heroes". Book edited by Kelly Nickell, p. 157, 2005.

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• I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it's time America was run like a business.

  Donald Trump

  Success, Running, Business

  Ken Lawrence, Donald Trump (2005). “The World According to Trump: An Unauthorized Portrait in His Own Words”, p.100, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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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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• 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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• You win by working hard, making tough decisions and building coalitions.

  John Engler

  Work, Winning, Decision

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• The best thing you can do is follow your dreams

  The Rev

  Motivational, Change, Positive

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• If we do not make tough decisions now, future Americans will have to make even tougher ones.

  Virginia Foxx

  Decision, Tough, Ifs

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• I like to push characters to extremes so they have to make really tough decisions and there is no life more extreme than that of an athlete.

  Chris Cleave

  Character, Athlete, Decision

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• My job is to get people back to work and make tough decisions. I've been willing to do it.

  Rick Scott

  Jobs, People, Decision

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• My goal was to do the best job I could in governing the state of Wisconsin, in some cases making very tough decisions to have to bring our spending in line with the resources we had at the state level.

  Scott McCallum

  Jobs, Best Job, Goal

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• I've often heard the complaint from both Democrat and Republican voters alike that they hate the fact that politicians get into office and they - and they're fearful, they're fearful to make tough decisions because they think more about the next election than they do about the next-generation.

  Scott Walker

  Hate, Thinking, Office

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• Being in command means making tough decisions. Not being in command means shutting up and doing what you're told. --Artemis Fowl

  Eoin Colfer

  Mean, Decision, Fowl

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• Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today's world. Weak managers are the problem. Weak managers destroy jobs.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Strong, Jobs

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• A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Choices, Decision, Peacefulness

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• If we make the tough decisions now, we will be one year ahead of 80 percent of the states in the race to economic growth. If we fail to act, we will fall even further behind... by going first, we can become first.

  Chris Christie

  Fall, Race, Years

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