Quotes About Decision

Take the first chance that you get, because you may never get another one.

Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.

I've never stayed awake at night over a chance I took that failed, but I've stayed awake over chances I didn't take.

We're deciding the fate of the multiverse with a flip of a coin. Heads or tails, doc. If that isn't a game, I don't know what is.

Play the shot you've got the best chance of playing well.

God casts the die, not the dice.

As Bill Clinton said so eloquently at the convention, during Vietnam there was a chance to serve; there was a chance not to serve.

The person who takes no chances generally has to take whatever is left when others are through choosing.

Make whatever decision you wish but never forget one thing: all of you are much better than you believed. Take advantage of the chance that tragedy has given you; not everyone is capable of doing so

Opportunity, after all, is only another word for temptation.

When they married he wouldn't be able to go on where he was. On the other hand, if she wouldn't have him, he didn't see that he would be able to go on at all.

If people don't read, that's their choice; a lifelong book habit may itself be some sort of affliction.

He had to keep moving. It didn't matter in which direction.

one of the few advantages man has over other animals is the ability to choose the way to bring on his own death. Food may well kill me, but it's also what has made life such a pleasure.

Life's full of chances to hurt yourself or someone else.

but offered him nothing beyond that. Dodger, for his part, would remove

The problem in my life and other people's lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of doing it.

Converting a decision into action requires answering several distinct questions: Who has to know of this decision? What action has to be taken? Who is to take it? And what does the action have to be so that the people who have to do it can do it? The first and the last of these are too often overlooked—with dire results.

a decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler's throw

Today is always the result of actions and decisions taken yesterday. Man, however, whatever his title or rank, cannot foresee the future. Yesterday's actions and decisions, no matter how courageous or wise they may have been, inevitably become today's problems

Gentlemen, I take it we are all in complete agreement on the decision here." Everyone around the table nodded assent. "Then," continued Mr. Sloan, "I propose we postpone further discussion of this matter until our next meeting to give ourselves time to develop disagreement and perhaps gain some understanding of what the decision is all about.

A decision is a judgment. It is a choice between alternatives. It is rarely a choice between right and wrong. It is at best a choice between "almost right" and "probably wrong"—but much more often a choice between two courses of action neither of which is provably more nearly right than the other.

Everyone can make the wrong decision—in fact, everyone will sometimes make a wrong decision. But no one needs to make a decision which, on its face, falls short of satisfying the boundary conditions.

The responsibility is always mine, but the decision lies with whoever is on the spot.