Wrong Decision Quotes

• The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.

  Maimonides

  Self Esteem, Decisions You Make, Risk

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• A decision made from fear is always the wrong decision.

  Tony Robbins

  Fear, Decision, Made

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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, Decision, Made

  Quoted in Henri Temuanka, Facing the Music (1973)

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• Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not.

  Phil Crosby

  Mistake, Decision

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• Consider what you think justice requires, and decide accordingly. But never give your reasons; for your judgment will probably be right, but your reasons will certainly be wrong.

  William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

  Thinking, Giving, Justice

  Advice to a newly appointed colonial governor ignorant in the law, in John Lord Campbell 'The Lives of the Chief Justices of England' (1849) vol. 2, ch. 40

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• The right decision is the wrong decision if it's made too late.

  Lee Iacocca

  Decision, Too Late, Made

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• Decide promptly, but never give any reasons for your decisions. Your decisions may be right, but your reasons are sure to be wrong.

  William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

  Decisions You Make, Giving, Decisions Made

  "A Book About Lawyers", Vol. 1, by John Cordy Jeaffreson, 1867.

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• Be decisive. A wrong decision is generally less disastrous than indecision.

  Bernhard Langer

  Golf, Decision, Indecision

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• A wrong decision isn't forever; it can always be reversed. The losses from a delayed decision are forever; they can never be retrieved.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Loss, Decision, Forever

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1981). “A life in our times: memoirs”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What is the secret of success? Right decisions. How do you make right decisions? Experience. How do you gain experience? Wrong decisions.

  Abdul Kalam

  Inspirational, Decision, Secret

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• More is lost by indecision than wrong decision. Indecision is the thief of opportunity. It will steal you blind.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Opportunity, Decision, Thieves

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• Even a good decision if made for the wrong reasons can be a wrong decision.

  Jonathan Pryce

  Decision, Reason, Made

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• The worst thing you can do is nothing.

  Terry Pratchett

  Motivational, Change, Positive

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• Make a decision and then make it right. There just are no wrong decisions. You could go this way, or that way, and either way will eventually get you to where you want to be. But in the moment you start complimenting yourself on the decision you've made, in that moment, you come back into vibrational alignment with who-you-really-are.

  Esther Hicks

  Decision, Way, Want

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• If I make a wrong decision, I worry what might have been. I stress out over very insignificant things.

  Courtney Barnett

  Stress, Insignificant Things, Worry

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The competition between human beings destroys with cold and diabolic brutality... Under the pressure of this competitive fury we have not only forgotten what is useful to humanity as a whole, but even that which is good and advantageous to the individual. [...] One asks, which is more damaging to modern humanity: the thirst for money or consuming haste... in either case, fear plays a very important role: the fear of being overtaken by one's competitors, the fear of becoming poor, the fear of making wrong decisions or the fear of not being up to snuff...

  Konrad Lorenz

  Play, Decision, Humanity

  "Civilized Man's Eight Deadly Sins". Book by Konrad Lorenz, 1973.

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• Any wrong decision you have ever made will become unimportant when your attention has shifted from it to a creative reason for living right here and now.

  Raymond Charles Barker

  Living Right, Creative, Decision

  Raymond Charles Barker (2011). “The Power of Decision: A Step-By-Step Program to Overcome Indecision and Live Without Failure Forever”, p.50, Penguin

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• If wrong decisions, both from a governance perspective and ethics, happen, this is a slippery slope that we will go down. Unless and until you recognise this, you will not take the right decisions.

  Cyrus Pallonji Mistry

  Perspective, Decision, Slippery Slope

  Source: zeenews.india.com

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• I am very indecisive. I'm always afraid of making the wrong decision.

  Katie Leung

  Decision, Indecisive

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• When you lose a customer, it can be tempting to tell each other, "That customer's not very sharp. They just made the wrong decision".

  Bill Gates

  Decision, Made, Tempting

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• Egoistical opinion that a man is the king of nature was created by the man himself, so he can justify his wrong decisions.

  Ruben Papian

  Nature, Kings, Men

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• Peer pressure is something everyone will face in school. You have to really go by what you think is the right thing to do. Turn to the friends you trust the most when you are put in a compromising situation. If your friends are making the wrong decision, then turn to your parents.

  Madisen Beaty

  School, Thinking, Decision

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• I say this in the book [Today Matters], we either spend our day repairing or preparing, and if I haven't taken good care of my today's, they accumulate. So all of a sudden today what I'm doing is I'm going back, I'm repairing bad relationships and wrong decisions, and I'm digging a hole. I'm not making any progress because I'm in a repairing mode, versus if I really make today count that prepares me for tomorrow. Tomorrow really will take care of itself if I do the right thing today.

  John C. Maxwell

  Book, Taken, Bad Relationship

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• I got to a point in my life when I'd done loads of things I regretted. I made all the wrong decisions. I was trying to fill my life with all these projects, hoping that one of them would succeed. I was like a cheating girlfriend. I was cheating on all the bands with other bands, and I was trying to manage everything.

  Duffy

  Cheating, Girlfriend, Decision

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I had a very insightful friend who warned me back when I stopped reading scripts, 'It's easier to change directions while you're still moving.' If you stop, it's harder to get started again. I still don't think I made the wrong decision, but he was right.

  Debra Winger

  Moving, Reading, Thinking

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