74 Decisions Quotes

We're the only branch of government that explains itself in writing every time it makes a decision.

I know what's best for me, after all I have been in the Claudette Colbert business longer than anybody.

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.

Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us.

Decisions, particularly important ones, have always made me sleepy, perhaps because I know that I will have to make them by instinct, and thinking things out is only what other people tell me I should do.

We have found, in our country, that when people have the right to make decisions as close to home as possible, they usually make the right decisions.

Delay is preferable to error.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.

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

The wonderful thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.

The second best decision in time is infinitely better than the perfect decision too late.

As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you- the first time around.

Political necessities sometimes turn out to be political mistakes.

Says a writer whom few know, 'Forty years after a battle it is easy for a non-combatant to reason about how it ought to have been fought. It is another thing personally and under fire to direct the fighting while involved in the obscuring smoke of it. Much so with respect to other emergencies involving considerations both practical and moral, and when it is imperative promptly to act.'

This is my principal objection to life, I think: It is too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes.

Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.

When you get to a fork in the road, take it.

A man's mind will very generally refuse to make itself up until it be driven and compelled by emergency.

Once you duct-tape a Ziploc bag to a man's chest, there's no going back. -Treasure Box

One mark of a good officer: the ability to make quick decisions. If they happen to be right, so much the better

It's not that Governments are constitutionally incapable of making the right decision, it's that they only do so as a matter of last resort.

Freedom of choice is what you got / freedom from choice is what you want.

The hardest thing in life is to learn which bridge to cross and which to burn.

Because the Rock has spoken.

What one refuses in a minute No eternity will return.

A political candidate who jumps to conclusions without knowing the facts is not a person you want as your commander in chief.

I understand not everybody agrees with the decisions I've made, but that's not unique to Central or South America. Truth of the matter is, there's people who disagree with the decisions I've made all over the world. But that's what happens when you make decisions.

Interviewer: 'AFI haven't been afraid to do the odd Misfits cover in past. Do you see yourselves recording a couple of more in the future?' Jade: 'Ah,...I doubt it. Ha-ha.'

O fol of alle foles, Thou farst as he betwen tuo stoles That wolde sitte and goth to grounde.

Samuel smiled at me. 'Freedom and fairness are very important to you, aren't they?' I nodded, and frowned. 'They're important to everybody.' He laughed. 'Oh, no, Anita, you would be amazed at the number of people who try to give away their freedom at every opportunity. They much prefer that someone else make their decisions.'

And I got so drunk, I got so drunk that I actually woke up thinking, 'Should I get up and pee, or just pee in the bed?' Actually weighing the pros and the cons. 'Well, it'll be warm for a minute... It's a big bed, I'll just roll over... I'll just blame it on that guy!'

Reason well from the beginning and then there will never be any need to look back with confusion and doubt.

Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.

The most decisive actions of our life-I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future-are, more often than not, unconsidered.

'A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.'

If it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.

We will never make a 32-bit operating system.

Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of the mercury in the barometer, indicate little else than the changeableness of the weather.

Il faut tenir a une resolution parce qu'elle est bonne, et non parce qu'on l'a prise.

Ask them if they want me to give it back.

Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is good company along the way.

Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.

Clyde: Oh, we're not going to make that trip again, oh no.

Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer?

I felt alienated by the experience and decided to stay away from corporate employment.

Do nothing till thou hast well considered the end of it.

Amid a multitude of projects, no plan is devised.

Avoid making irrevocable decisions while tired or hungry. N.B.: Circumstances can force your hand. So think ahead!

Deeds let escape are never to be done.

My Master said, on another Occasion, that those who doubt most, always erred least.

To the yoke of necessity every one willingly bows the head. Still, wherever an actually complicated aspect of things presents itself, it is more difficult to discover exactly what is necessary; but by the very acknowledgment of the principle, the problem invariably becomes simpler and the solution easier.

I have come to a decision which I felt I should tell you and all of my fellow American citizens, as soon as I was certain in my own mind and in my own conscience that it is the right thing to do. I have learned already in this office that the difficult decisions always come to this desk. I must admit that many of them do not look at all the same as the hypothetical questions that I have answered freely and perhaps too fast on previous occasions. My customary policy is to try and get all the facts and to consider the opinions of my countrymen and to take counsel with my most valued friends. But these seldom agree, and in the end, the decision is mine. To procrastinate, to agonize, and to wait for a more favorable turn of events that may never come or more compelling external pressures that may as well be wrong as right, is itself a decision of sorts and a weak and potentially dangerous course for a President to follow. I have promised to uphold the Constitution, to do what is right as God gives me to see the right, and to do the very best that I can for America.

You're fired!