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Quotes About Decision

The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
~ Jawaharlal Nehru
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
~ Jay Leno
The result proves the wisdom of the act.
~ Ovid
I have always known that at last I would take this road, but yesterday I did not know that it would be today.
~ Ariwara no Narihira
Wisdom often consists of knowing what to do next.
~ Herbert Hoover
It was important to keep moving. Certain struggles continued. Others had to be brought to a close. The wisdom was in deciding which.
~ Robert Ludlum
If we still advise we shall never do.
~ Elizabeth I, Collected Works
You can always debate about what you should have done. The question is what are you going to do?
~ Hubert H. Humphrey
Act quickly, think slowly.
~ Germaine Greer
The toughest test of good judgment is to know when to withhold your better judgment.
~ Robert Breault
When in doubt, choose to live.
~ Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time
We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
~ Vernon Howard
Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil - not the strength to choose between the two.
~ John Cheever
Changing our decision sets up a bad habit. It reinforces decision-making as an expression of bewilderment and ignorance, instead of wisdom and freedom.
~ Sakyong Mipham
He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.
~ Samuel Johnson
He who will lose a present good for one in expectation hath some wit, but a small store of wisdom.
~ Bias of Priene
Every choice eventually leads to wisdom.
~ Dan Millman
Wisdom is the power to see, and the inclination to choose, the best and highest goal, together with the surest means of attaining it.
~ J. I. Packer
We do not sit as a super-legislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.
~ William O. Douglas
If we don't change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going.
~ Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes
When you say Yes, say it quickly. But always take a half hour to say No, so you can understand the other fellow's side.
~ Francis Spellman
My daughter, there are times of moral danger when the hardest virtuous resolution to form is flight, and when the most heroic bravery is flight.
~ Charles Dickens
Look before you leap.
~ John Heywood
Either you lead a life which is luxurious on the material level or you lead a luxurious life of God's blessings. One of these two you have to choose, the time has come.
~ Nirmala Srivastava