Top 17 Decision Quotes

Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.

- Winston Churchill

I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.

- B.F. Skinner

I think a lot more decisions are made on serendipity than people think. Things come across their radar screens and they jump at them.

- Jay W. Lorsch

Our most important decisions are made while we are thinking about something else.

- Mason Cooley

Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.

- Sophocles

Maturity involves being honest and true to oneself, making decisions based on a conscious internal process, assuming responsibility for one's decisions, having healthy relationships with others and developing one's own true gifts. It involves thinking about one's environment and deciding what one will and won't accept.

- Mary Pipher

You can't talk about a kind of democracy unless those who are affected by decisions make those decisions whether the institutions in question be the welfare department, the university, the factory, the farm, the neighborhood, the country.

- Casey Hayden

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

- Abraham Lincoln

A woman does not have to make decisions based on the need to survive. She can cut through issues, call shots as she sees them.... Many bad decisions are made by men in government because it is good for them personally to make bad public decisions.

- Dianne Feinstein

Most of my decisions in life seem absent-minded but inevitable.

- Mason Cooley

Every man finds a sanction for his simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and Holiness.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.

- Nicholas Sparks

Decisions are the hardest thing to make, especially when it is a choice between where you should be and where you want to be.

- Anonymous

When you have to make a hard decision, flip a coin. Why? Because when that coin is in the air, you suddenly know what you're hoping for.

- Anonymous

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision

- Peter Drucker

Don't spend a dollar's worth of time on a ten cent decision.

- Peter Turla

A mistake repeated more than once is a decision

- Paulo Coelho