Decision Making Quotes

If you care about what people think about you, you will end up being their slave. Reject and pull your own rope.

In life, most decisions are a case of let go to get.

Do the things you like to be happier, stronger & more successful. Only so is hard work replaced by dedication.

Green light, STOP - if you want to see where you are taking the most risk, look where you are making the most money.

It is a choice, and therefore within the province of economics.

Morality means choice. Choice means priorities. Priorities mean a hierarchy. A hierarchy means something at the top, a standard. That is the greatest good. If you have no greatest good, you have no hierarchy, you have no priorities. If you have no priorities, you cannot make intelligent choices. If you cannot make intelligent moral choices, you have no morality. You can still guide your life by your feelings or by social fashions, but that is not choice – not free, responsible, moral choice. Both feelings and fashions push you; you are passive. But moral choice is your own doing; you are active. You are responsible for your choices but not for your feelings or for your environment’s fashions.

On an important decision one rarely has 100% of the information needed for a good decision no matter how much one spends or how long one waits. And, if one waits too long, he has a different problem and has to start all over. This is the terrible dilemma of the hesitant decision maker.

One thing we entirely forget when making decisions is the fact that the results concern and throw back to the decision maker not the one it seeks to please.

Risk is one of the qualities of any good decision. This is so because, decision itself is a risk. Therefore, making a decision literally means, taking a risk... In tracing the histories of successful men and women, the first thing to notice in their lives is risk.

In the business always talk to decision makers only, it will save your time and will get you the deal.

Don't just DO something. Stand there! (and get perspective and understanding)

The ignoramus crow of "love it or leave it" omits other viable options, such as staying and changing it.

I’m not leaving the plane that way,” I said to myself. That’s when I discovered the power of choice—a third place that is neither “have to” or “want to.” That discovery freed me to move forward to make two other choices: I’m not going to be kicked out of this plane; and If I’m going to leave this plane, it will be under my own power. I’m going to maximize my chances of a safe exit. The change in my feelings at that moment was quite dramatic. Stress was replaced with purposeful action; a sense of victimhood was transformed into empowerment. There was no hesitation, no ambivalence.

Gratitude turns disappointment into lessons learned, discoveries made, alternatives explored, and new plans set in motion.

One of the scariest things in the world, is that other people can make life-changing decisions for you.

We've made our decisions, We've taken our choices, What's left, is only a hand-full of emotions.

Before you cut down the tree, think of the birds that take refuge on it

As the pace of the campaign quickened, politics began to clash with Kennedy's innate sense of responsibility. – Arthur Schlesinger

So. Tell me. What do you think? Which is better? To take action and perhaps make a fatal mistake - or to take no action and die slowly anyway?

In your daily life, you make dozens of chooses between an alternative with higher overall value and a more tempting but ultimately inferior option.

No one cultivates in a stony-ground, instead he cultivates in a soft-rich ground. Do not expect people to invest in you if you're a lazy type.

You will hardly find wrong people at right places. Choose to be at the right places and you will find the right people who will inspire you to make it happen!

At the end of the day, it’s your life. If you turn out good, the world celebrates you and with you (not minding how you achieved it). If bad, they abandon you (even if they gave you the advice that led you to doom). Just be you and follow your heart.

Making it happen, It's just something you gotta do.

We need to maintain an awareness of our awareness, of what we are paying attention to, in order to discriminate between higher and lower forms of love.

By the time your perfect information has been gathered, the world has moved on.

A society that decides its controversial issues by ballots does better than one that uses bullets – which, after all, is no more likely to lead to the right conclusion than voting.

The single greatest cause of happiness is gratitude.

The unceasing flow of thought in all its various forms is an inescapable and defining aspect of the human condition.

When you come to a place where you have to left or right,' says Sister Ruth, 'go straight ahead.

Be the decision, not ego.

If you're being bombarded with information, the act of looking for patterns – not necessarily finding them – is what going to give you psychic refuge, a sense of sanctuary.

...God is not dead; he really does communicate today. He's interested in every part of your life, your home, your finances, every kind of decision - and more than just the moral issues. His eye is always on you. He wants to lead you. But you have to believe that he will indeed speak to you when you wait before him in believing prayer, with a yielded heart to do his will.

Mad and sad is a good mix for poor decisions.

The expectation of intelligent gossip is a powerful motive for serious self-criticism, more powerful than New Year resolutions to improve one's decision making at work and at home.

Laws and a settled decision procedure to generate them are a good thing. This gives us one important reason for obeying the law. By obeying the law, I can contribute to the respect in which the established decision procedure and the laws are held. By disobeying, I set an example to others that may lead them to disobey too.

The elegance under pressure is the result of fearlessness.

The virtuous man takes the middle road between the two extremes, making a point of being respectful of his own ideas without changing his personality or style.

Cooler heads prevail while things spin completely out of control.

A mistake is not something to be determined after the fact, but in the light of the information until that point

Journalism can be lethal

If we are going to live with our deepest differences then we must learn about one another.

The main reason why God gave us imaginations is to allow us to have a specific power that can help us make realistic decisions.

Pride makes easy decisions hard. Humility makes hard decisions easy.

Your choices are made in a moment, and yet their consequences transcend a lifetime.