Quotes About Decisions

You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.

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.

Acts of government are not choices between good and bad. They are between two evils – the lesser of two evils. Someone is always going to get hurt by a decision of government . . . absolute morality, absolute ethics just does not exist in affairs of the state.'99

no matter which end-of-life decisions were made, there are always regrets, there is always that guilt — live parts of me holding onto memories of a dying you dead parts of me holding onto living memories of you

When you base your life on principle, 99% of your decisions are already made.

Good decisions come from experience, and experience comes from bad decisions.

Life's real name is Choices.

Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need more.

Statesmen are not called upon only to settle easy questions. These often settle themselves. It is where the balance quivers, and the proportions are veiled in mist, that the opportunity for world-saving decisions presents itself.

At such moments her own emotions elevated him till he was as a god, and, as he gazed at her and listened, he seemed gazing on the face of life and reading its deepest secrets. And then, becoming aware of the heights of exquisite sensibility he attained, he decided that this was love and that love was the greatest thing in the world.

Later in life situations and responsibilities force people to compromise. But to compromise now . . . it's like quitting before you start.

May I not sit in judgment. May I be open to hearing and accepting the truth of what I am told. May my decisions be for the good of all concerned. May my work bring peace. . . .

King, Gandhi, and Kepler become great because they make choices full of moral courage.

Detritus, that's the word. The awful accumulation of wrong decisions, improper terms. You scrape away the excrescences of history...and maybe you get down to the bedrock of human society, where diamonds hide. God of my fathers, how I wish we could bring in the psychological drills and probe down to bedrock.

Wrong decisions, Jakob, are never inevitable. A wise man can always turn back from a precipice.

Kind of bloodthirsty, don't you think, Charles? said John. I'm an editor, said Charles. I have to make decisions like that all the time.

El ser humano es el arquitecto de su propia vida en virtud de los pensamientos que escoge y sobre los cuales decide o no actuar.

Life, it is true, is a process of decisions and alternatives, the conscious awareness and acceptance of limitations. Experience, nevertheless, to say nothing of history, seems clearly to indicate that it is not possible to banish or to falsify any human need without ourselves undergoing falsification and loss.

You absolutely cannot make a series of good decisions without first confronting the brutal facts. The good-to-great companies operated

You absolutely cannot make a series of good decisions without first confronting the brutal facts. The good-to-great companies operated in accordance with this principle, and the comparison companies generally did not.

We find out who they are by asking them why they made decisions in their life. The answers to these questions give us insight into their core values.33

The idea that leading in a "fast world" always requires "fast decisions" and "fast action"—and that we should embrace an overall ethos of "Fast! Fast! Fast!"—is a good way to get killed. 10X leaders figure out when to go fast, and when not to.

If you spend your life keeping your options open, that's exactly what you'll do . . . spend your life keeping your options open.

the single most important skill for building a great company is making superb people decisions. Without the right people, you simply cannot build a great company, period.