Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Decisions

All we see of someone at any moment is a snapshot of their life, there in riches or poverty, in joy or despair. Snapshots don’t show the million decisions that led to tht moment.
Richard Bach (b.1936) American Novelist, Aviator

Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions.
James Callaghan (1912–2005) British Labour Statesman, Prime Minister

Choice of attention – to pay attention to this and ignore that – is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.
W. H. Auden (1907–73) British-born American Poet, Dramatist

When, against one’s will, one is high pressured into making a hurried decision, the best answer is always No, because No is more easily changed to Yes, than Yes is changed to No.
Charles Erwin Wilson (1890–1961) American Businessperson

The difference is wide that sheets will not decide.
English Proverb

Man is a reasoning, rather than a reasonable, animal.
Alexander Hamilton (c.1757–1804) American Federalist Politician, Statesman

All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
Marcel Proust (1871–1922) French Novelist

Everything is something you decide to do, and there is nothing you have to do.
Denis Waitley (b.1933) American Motivational Speaker, Author

When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature.
Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) Austrian Psychiatrist, Psychoanalytic

Statistics are no substitute for judgment.
Henry Clay (1777–1852) American Politician

Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide … And the choice goes by forever ‘twixt that darkness and that light.
James Russell Lowell (1819–91) American Poet, Critic

Indecision is like a stepchild: if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water.
African Proverb

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 (1930–2009) American Entrepreneur, Author, Motivational Speaker

In many lines of work, it isn’t how much you do that counts, but how much you do well and how often you decide right.
William Feather (1889–1981) American Publisher, Author

Alternatives, and particularly desirable alternatives, grow only on imaginary trees.
Saul Bellow (1915–2005) Canadian-American Novelist

Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
Sophocles (495–405 BCE) Ancient Greek Dramatist

The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them, and then make our plans with confidence.
Henry Ford (1863–1947) American Businessperson, Engineer

What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) (c.4 BCE–65 CE) Roman Stoic Philosopher, Statesman, Tragedian

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.
Laurence J. Peter (1919–90) Canadian-born American Educator, Author

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) (c.4 BCE–65 CE) Roman Stoic Philosopher, Statesman, Tragedian

Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.
Tony Robbins (b.1960) American Self-Help Author, Entrepreneur

Between two stools one sits on the ground.
French Proverb

You cannot sell the cow and sup the milk.
Unknown

You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place.
James Lane Allen (1849–1925) American Novelist, Short Story Writer

To know just what has do be done, then to do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.
William Osler (1849–1919) Canadian Physician

God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please—you can never have both.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher

Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide; In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side.
James Russell Lowell (1819–91) American Poet, Critic

Life is just an endless chain of judgements…. The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.
B. C. Forbes (1880–1954) Scottish-born American Journalist, Publisher

Logic pervades the world; the limits of the world are also the limits of logic.
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-born British Philosopher

Wisdom consists in being able to distinguish among dangers and make a choice of the least harmful.
Niccolo Machiavelli (1469–1527) Florentine Political Philosopher

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