Quotation Explorer - 'Decisions'

History shows us that people often make mistakes, they give wrong decisions, they vote for the wrong persons! And history also shows us that in the end they pay a heavy price for it! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Don't take crucial decisions when you are depressed or filled with anger, because then the decision is not made by you. - Saga Valsalan
Going through life regretting your past decisions is like being a repeat offender in jail. You never break free because you won't allow your mentality to move on".~The Roadblock is You - Demia Avery
Keep in mind, Eragon, that no one thinks himself a villain, and few make decisions they think are wrong. A person may dislike his choice, but he will stand by it because, even in the worst circumstances, he believes that it was the best option available to him at the time. - Christopher Paolini
Life is a predestined culmination built upon ones own decisions. - Saim Cheeda
Each of us has a finite reservoir of energy in any given day. Whatever amount of energy we spend obsessing about missteps we have made, decisions that do not go our way or the belief we have been treated unfairly is energy no longer available to add value in the world. - Tony Schwartz
The ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you do?’, whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions. - George Orwell
Making our worst decisions in life, can destroy us, but God is trying to Rebuild us - Gary Louis
we are bound to make mistakes. We are bound to meet mistakes. We have regretted certain decisions we took yesterday today and we may regret some decisions of today tomorrow but not until we regret the regrets, we shall always have the regrets - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Holographic Theory shows that it is possible for our bodies to make decisions based on the experience of others. - Phil 'Philosofree' Cheney
Even when we do not actively participate in our destiny, we are still on a chosen path. Life has a way of making decisions for us. - Nina Guilbeau
In the matters of your life don't take orders, take decisions. - Amit Kalantri
Free will is about the power to decide for yourself without outside influence. That means no family, no religion, no ethnicity, no boundaries to encumber you in making decisions that are solely for YOUR LIFE. That is complete free will - Levon Peter Poe
Under certain circumstances the fateful decisions in life, sometimes even in matters of life and death, are made with an almost indifferent ease. While the little things-for instance, the way people hang on to what is over-seem so important. - Peter Høeg
Forgiving others simply means that you refuse to be a prisoner of a past that you can't change, and shackled to decisions that you didn't make. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
Integrity is the antithesis of compromise and the sworn enemy of comfort. It bases its decisions not on how much discomfort we might be able to avoid, but on how much we need to avoid the compromise of comfort. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
I have learned that when you make big decisions, life says, 'Fuck you. This is what you actually have in store. - Chris Pine
No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently. - Agnes de Mille
Never put yourself in a position that will put yourself at risk if you make the wrong decision. We spent cash on everything. It's fashionable to make 'bet the company' decisions, but don't do it. - Joel Spolsky
The decisions of the courts on economic and social questions depend on their economic and social philosophy. - Theodore Roosevelt
Do not partner with fear to help you make decisions - Jeannette Gregory
When there is only a last chance left, think wise and make decisions carefully. - Auliq Ice
Don't entrust your future on others' hands. Rather make decisions by yourself with the help of God's guidance. Hold your beliefs so tight and never let go of them! - Hark Herald Sarmiento
What insanity would lead me to believe that I possess the power, much less the aptitude to manipulate all of the consequences out of all of my decisions? - Craig D. Lounsbrough
A decision is a responsibility, if you cannot handle responsibility, don't take decisions. - Amit Kalantri
We've made our decisions, We've taken our choices, What's left, is only a hand-full of emotions. - Auliq Ice
Consider every choice carefully, no matter how small, for it will affect the bigger decisions you make. - Jim George
You are not the victim of the world, but rather the master of your own destiny. It is your choices and decisions that determine your destiny. - Roy T. Bennett
Don’t allow your thoughts of frustration allow you to make decisions out of desperation. - DeWayne Owens
Accepting personal responsibility for your life frees you from outside influences increases your self-esteem boosts confidence in your ability to decisions and ultimately leads to achieve success in life. - Roy T. Bennett
Self-leadership is the most effective way to train leaders. How do you do that? Empower them to make decisions, you as a leader back them up and allow them to follow through - Janna Cachola
Never make permanent eternal decisions based on sense knowledge. - Kingsley Opuwari Manuel
One mark of a good officer, he remembered, was the ability to make quick decisions. If they happen to be right, so much the better - Larry Niven
If my decisions constantly heed the voice of the world, I can be completely assured that I’m going to end up in a ‘world of hurt.’ If my decisions heed the word of God, I can be completely assured that this ‘world of hurt’ isn’t anywhere near my solar system. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume. - Noam Chomsky
The earth is crying for people who make sound judgement and informed decisions. - Sunday Adelaja
Our future starts in our decisions. - Ricardo Luis Ivan I Geronimo
It’s our decisions, not our conditions, that ultimately shape the quality of our lives. - Derric Yuh Ndim
Are decisions really products of analysis of a situation; or are simply out of preconceived notions? I believe, at some point of one's existence, we all are troubled by relativism! - L.D.R.
Your creation are the outcome of your decisions. - Bhagat Negi
You will make better decisions once you begin thinking long-term rather than short-term. - Adam Smith
In effect, the poor person is a rich person left to fend for him or herself, without the support of institutions that help the person to take 'good' decisions. - Daniel Cohen
So I would choose to be with you,That's if the choice were mine to make,But you can make decisions too,And you can have this heart to break - Billy Joel
Destiny is defined by your choices, decisions, and determination. - Debasish Mridha
This is biblical ethics. It has little to do with the middle-class ethics of avoiding a few things which are supposed to be wrong and doing a few things which are supposed to be right. Biblical ethics means standing in ultimate decisions for or against God. - Paul Tillich
Make decisions, not excuses! - John Di Lemme
Big, sweeping life changes really boil down to small, everyday decisions. - Ali Vincent
Women deserve better than propaganda and lies to get into panties. Propaganda and lies to get into office, to get out of court, to get out of paying child support. Get the fuck out of our decisions and give us back our voice. Women deserve better; women deserve choice. - Sonya Renee Taylor
I thought myself sufficiently shrewd to make whatever decisions I wanted to make, and then to be able to sufficiently steer those decisions away from the rather dark and nasty places they would naturally take me. And I stand oddly perplexed that suddenly everything around me is dark and nasty. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
Choices, options, decisions abound. Choose right, take the best option and decide well. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Somewhere deep down we know that in the final analysis, we do decide things and that even our decisions to let someone else decide are really our decisions, however pusillanimous. - Harvey Cox
If you don’t know what you value in life, then you won’t be able to make any meaningful decisions you can live with in the future. - Shannon L. Alder
Life is a random sequence of actions and reactions of people’s preferences and decisions they take to achieve their preferences. - Vivek Thangaswamy
Your values create your internal compass that can navigate how you make decisions in your life. If you compromise your core values, you go nowhere. - Roy T. Bennett
Grief helps you come to grips with the loss of a loved one. Guilt helps you make better moral decisions or bring you to apologise for a wrongdoing. In proper doses, these types of negative emotions are necessary and healthy. - Stephen Richards
That's what college is for - getting as many bad decisions as possible out of the way before you're forced into the real world. I keep a checklist of 'em on the wall in my room. - Jeph Jacques
And she knew that her fate wasn't set by how or where she was born, but the decisions she made and the battles she fought. It didn't matter if she had eight toes or ten, amber eyes or blue. What mattered was what she set out to do. - Robert Beatty
Patriarchy is women structuring lifelong decisions around men they haven't met. - Maggie Young
You will learn to make better decisions in life with experience and time. - Robert Tew
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
Decisions are never made in retrospect, hence there is no point regretting them, ever. - David Darson
Don't make such decisions whose bad results make you look like you are your own enemy. - Amit Kalantri
It is not so much the major events as the small day-to-day decisions that map the course of our living. . . Our lives are, in reality, the sum total of our seemingly unimportant decisions and of our capacity to live by those decisions. - Gordon B. Hinckley
Making bad decisions is a part of life. Blaming others for your bad decisions is immature. - Mi
We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes–understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success. - Arianna Huffington
Your present interests are not a solid basis of a career decisions. So, stop following your passion and Do What Is Valuable.! - Moutasem Algharati
It takes ten good decisions to make up for one disastrous one. This is why it is better not to make nine good decisions than to make one bad one—which is what happens most of the time. - Neel Burton
It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, inventions and actions of others.
Each decision you make today has the potential to unlock and open doors of profitable benefits or close the doors to great opportunities. Think before you act and make your decisions wisely today. - DeWayne Owens
Look those tough and hard decisions in the face and make them; keep making them until you are confident in what you see. - Bidemi Mark-Mordi
Once you are clear with the process of input-output and its consequence, you become more careful with every choice and decisions with your life. - Roshan Sharma
Life is a chain of events; a journey. Tomorrow's opportunities are a reflection of today's decisions .The good thing is, tomorrow never ends. Every new day comes with a chance to secure tomorrow - Asuni LadyZeal
My decisions determine my destination long before I ever get there. And once I do get there, I suddenly realize this is not the destination I had in mind because what I had in mind was the fantasy that my denial had created verses the reality my choices crafted. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
Nothing tells you more about an organization than the way it makes decisions. - Dennis Bakke
So much of personal development and growth comes down to the decisions you make when you hit a wall. Do you spend your time feeling bad for yourself, or do you invest your time in continuing to build toward your dreams? - Andrea Goeglein
It is always thus, impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, we make our irrevocable decisions - Marcel Proust
Every leader has the courage to make decisions. No decision is usually the worst decision. - Orrin Woodward
lack of sound mind and judgment the ability to make considered decisions or come to sensible conclusions, is a matter of frustration and disillusionment to God - Sunday Adelaja
Little decisions shape big consequences. - Mehek Bassi
When in a negatively charged state, be careful about the decisions you make. - Karen Salmansohn
In all controversies, it is better to wait the decisions of time, which are slow and sure, than to take those of synods, which are often hasty and injudicious - Joseph Priestley
The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood - Otto von Bismarck
Aren’t you going to ask me if I’m all right? I say.No, I’m pretty sure you’re not all right.He shakes his head. I’m going to ask you not to make any decisions until we’ve talkedabout it. - Veronica Roth
I don't believe war is a way to solve problems. I think it's wrong. I don't have respect for the people that made the decisions to go on with war. I don't have that much respect for Bush. He's about war, I'm not about war - a lot of people aren't about war. - Avril Lavigne
Decisions of character come from understanding that they are accountable to God only, not to family, spouses, religious leaders, corporations, public opinion or your own ego. - Shannon L. Alder
Misperceiving that there is one correct choice is a common mistake. Coming to understand that there are usually a few good choices--and then there's the one you pick, commit to, and make great--is the best way to make flexible, optimal, good decisions in life. - Katie Couric
Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. - T.S. Eliot
If the people who make the decisions are the people who will also bear the consequences of those decisions, perhaps better decisions will result. - John Abrams
Many times in our lives, we are dropped, crumpled, and ground into dirt by the decisions we make and the circumstances that come our way. We feel as though we are worthless. But no matter what has happened or what will happen, we will never lose our value in God’s eyes. - Joyce Meyer
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are. - Roy Disney
At what point do you no longer need other people to support the decisions you’ve made about your own reality? - Scott Ginsberg
In order to be authentic, you have to make decisions based on what you want, rather than how it will be perceived. - Shannon L. Alder
If we dare examine our decisions, we will see our values woven in and through every single one of them. Therefore, it would do us well to take an occasional peek to insure that our values remain at their peak. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
The earth is crying for people who make sound judgment and informed decisions - Sunday Adelaja
When women turn on women, and take cheap shots at their decisions purely to score political points it serves as proof that feminism, as a movement, is dead and no longer relevant or credible. - S.E. Cupp
Some' strong decisions stamp you as 'rude'. But in future, they will realize that you were right. But be cautious about the 'Some'. - Saga Valsalan
It's less important to have unanimity than it is to be making the right decisions and doing the right thing, even though at the outset it may seem lonesome.
The decisions that take you to your highest points in life are the toughest decisions you'd have to make. - Constance Chuks Friday
Internal and external world is interdependent. Your experiences and impressions of the outside world shape your thoughts and imagination, while making the choice and decisions, from your internal thought process, creates your physical reality. - Roshan Sharma
Forgiveness is not an event. It is a series of decisions made over and over again. - Karen Salmansohn
Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature. - Marcus Tullius Cicero
Character is formed out of those small decisions taken for granted - Luthando Daniels
The art and craft of early childhood teaching is in making decisions about fun, play and work. And it is this crafting that distinguishes the professional from the baby-sitter, parent or child minder. - Susan Grieshaber and Felicity McArdle
If we are to learn to improve the quality of the decisions we make, we need to accept the mysterious nature of our snap judgments. - Malcolm Gladwell
Never allow your short term temperament to affect your long term decisions. - Moutasem Algharati
I guess when I feel something, then I just feel it and I go for it. I make my decisions about what’s going to make me happy, what I think is right and what I want to do and I don’t worry too much outside of that. - Liam Hemsworth
All men are created equal. It is what you do from there that makes the difference. We are all free agents in life. We make our own decisions. We control our own destiny. - Glenn Beck
I don't regret any of the decisions I've made in my life because with every choice I make, I learn something new. - Siva Kaneswaren
In life it is difficult to find a way of life, but later is much more difficult to stay on that road... So before any decisions think carefully. - Nikolic Mihajlo
Your life will be colourful if you just add colours to your life! It is your own decisions that will determine to have a miserable or a marvellous life! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Our best-laid plans are often our worst-made decisions. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
when there is no sound mind in the society people's thinking and their decisions, don’t always follow the natural flow of logic, because the society and the culture of the land has polluted the minds of ordinary people - Sunday Adelaja
Using information about animal behavior to justify social or political ideology is wrong . . . People need to be able to make decisions about their lives without having to worry about keeping up with the bonobos. - Marlene Zuk
Make a decision and then make it right. There just are no wrong decisions. - Abraham Hicks
For good-intentioned people making decisions, there's no such thing as a bad choice. So it doesn't matter what you choose. Choose something, then deliberately line up with the choice you make. This is the art of alignment and allowing. (paraphrased) - Abraham Hicks
Your little choices become habits that affect the bigger decisions you make in life. - Elizabeth George
We are the sum total of the decisions we have made. - E.A. Bucchianeri
I am far too often the author of terribly poor decisions. Yet I must rest in the unalterable fact that God says I am far better than what the sum total of those decisions would ever suggest. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last. - Marcel Proust
...in life you have to take lots of decisions and if you don't make decisions you would never do anything because you waste all your time choosing between things you could do... - Mark Gaddon The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
We must make tough decisions to see if it’s worth it in the end. - Dominic Riccitello
In this age, in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail; against it, nothing can succeed. Whoever molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes, or pronounces judicial decisions. - Abraham Lincoln
Eventually your little choices are going to become habits that affect the bigger decisions you make in life. - Jim George
I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life. - Warren Buffett
If we believe we have no control, we acquiesce our real power, become subject to the decisions of others, and become like a leaf floating helplessly down a current of other people's decisions.
Long-range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions. - Peter Drucker
We’re making our decisions or so we think. Yet in truth, ignorance, greed, and the scourge of immediate gratification are often the things that are making them. So if we’re going to truly live well, maybe the first thing we need to decide is who’s deciding. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
You can't make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen. - Michelle Obama
Don't sweat the small stuff" doesn't work with parenting small children. They only work in small stuff. They aren't making company decisions. They are deciding whether to use a crayon on the wall. Bill Klein - The Little Couple
The problems we face, did not come down from the heavens. They are made, they are made by bad human decisions, and good human decisions can change them. - Bernie Sanders
The more you enhance your ability to meditate, the better you will be able to make better decisions and create better harmony either within yourself, at home or at work. - Vishwas Chavan
Making decisions about whether to keep and how to organize objects requires categorization skills, confidence in one's ability to remember, and sustained attention. To maintain order, one also needs the ability to efficiently assess the value or utility of an object.
We’re all just people making decisions and accepting consequences as we march toward an impending and inevitable death. - Agnostic Zetetic
Life is full of different opportunities and decisions to make, and these decisions are what mold our future and destiny, and the results of these decisions are a product of hard work and determination and just maybe a little bit of luck. - Telson Erebor
Sometimes in life, you have to take difficult steps and tough decisions, in order to achieve something bigger. - Saad Salman
You’ll never have control over other people's decisions, or what cards life deals you. Your power lies in the choosing of your response. That is the one thing you can control. - John Mark Green
I haven't forgottenThat I have to grow upAnd someday live withoutYour voice, your opinion--Making my own decisions. - Jordan Hoechlin
Good plans shape good decisions. That's why good planning helps to make elusive dreams come true.
I write flawed characters. Ones that do not always make the best decisions and are driven by ambition or lust. They are not black or white, they are in the large space that exists between. - Kevin James Breaux
Let go of yesterday, you made it! Don't use yesterday's state of mind to make today's decisions. - C. Nzingha Smith
Ones life will have much more meaning and happiness if one makes their own decisions - Duncan William Gibbons
The fact that you made worse decisions in the past shouldn't be an excuse to make bad decisions in the present. - Sanhita Baruah
Every day you make certain decisions and take specific actions that come about as a result of how you think, feel and the habits you tend to indulge - Derric Yuh Ndim
Do not make promises when you are happy, either way never make decisions when you are angry. Stay calm. - David Esabwa
As a leader, I am there to make the best decisions possible with the evidence at hand and to be able to justify that decision. If it goes wrong, we add to the evidence for making the next decision, but there is no reason for regretting failure, as failure is just the production of evidence. - Michael A. Wood Jr.
Loving yourself means caring enough to make the hard decisions in your life.
Your beliefs are decisions; they are choices. First you choose your beliefs. Then your beliefs affect your choices. - Roy T. Bennett
This is how best to effect change. If you reiterate the same fears and the same sensible measures with proper augmentation enough times, even difficult decisions will begin to seem like the only justifiable solutions. - Olli Jalonen
Contentment is a state of happiness and satisfaction. The choices we make are our own decisions for how we want to live our life. - Ellen J. Barrier
Quick decisions made in anger, usually end in regret. - Elizabeth Bourgeret
One thing we entirely forget when making decisions is the fact that the results concern and throw back to the decision maker not the one it seeks to please. - Unarine Ramaru
When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us, we in essence accept that the state owns our bodies. - Ron Paul
Decisions are made by people who have time, not people who have talent. - Scott Adams
Somewhere deep down we know that in the final analysis we do decide things and that even our decisions to let someone else decide are really our decisions, however pusillanimous. - Harvey Cox
Your decisions in life will define your destiny. - Lailah Gifty Akita
We’re making decisions right now that shape our lives. Even indecision is a decision. What’s going on today is a result of the choices we’ve made in the past. - Toni Sorenson
It's hard to decide matters of the heart, especially when Self-love is rooted in our decisions. You'll need to balance your needs with the people you love in order to avoid hurting others. - Auliq Ice
History is important because it teaches us about past. And by learning about the past, ypu come to understand the present, so that you may make educated decisions about the future. - Richelle Mead
Wrong decisions make a good stories, lies make a very good stories - Nourhan Mamdouh
Don't overthink things. Sometimes you can convince your head not to listen to your heart. Those are the decisions you regret for the rest of your life." Faith Barnett From Texas Tangle - Leah Braemel
Life moves based on our Decisions not by choices provided by Lord - Samsi Yadav
If you want to be trusted, trust first. Make decisions that are grounded in your authentic principles. Don’t lie. Don’t cheat. Don’t push others down to obtain success. - Richie Norton
With or without God, good decisions can be made; But only with God will great decisions be made. - Damon Thueson
Your beliefs affect your choices. Your choices shape your actions. Your actions determine your results. The future you create depends upon the decisions you make and actions you take today. - Roy T. Bennett
Pride makes easy decisions hard. Humility makes hard decisions easy. - Stella Payton
Reasoning with senselessness will never build faith. Faith is strengthened when you stop collecting fragmented signs and questionable hunches, in order to build an acceptable reason for your wrong decisions and less than desirable circumstances. - Shannon L. Alder
The most ignorant of all people is a person who is self assured in his or her premature decisions. - Auliq Ice
I don't know how often opportunity knocks, but temptations to make foul decisions bang on my door all day long. And smelly decisions make for smelly problems later on. A few little decisions, good or bad, can make a big difference in a life. Better to run from those skunks than with them. - Steve Goodier
The reason we have choices in life, is so we don't blame anyone for the consequences of our decisions. - Gugu Mona
Making hard decisions in life to accomplish the dreams, It requires a gut from within. - Mohith Agadi
Mad and sad is a good mix for poor decisions. - Hart of Dixie
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility. - Brooks Atkinson
Whatever you’re not telling me, let it go. Emotion leads to poor decisions. Poor decisions lead to scrutiny. Scrutiny is our greatest threat. - Ken Cruickshank
Don't make rash decisions while the world is dark. Wait for the light to make all things clear. - Bryan Davis
Untraumatized people have a natural instinct to make healthy decisions in the best interest of their true selves. They are only limited by their immaturity and the brokenness of their external world. - Daniel Mackler
Click any word or name in a quote to explore, or search for more. [JSON] [SOURCE]