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Decision Quotes


"You're the one who has to live with your choice," she says. "Everyone else will get over it, move on, no matter what you decide. But you never will."


"There is an opportunity cost for everything we do. This is why we must have the awareness to ensure that what we are pursuing is really what we value, because the pursuit leaves countless lost opportunities in its wake. We choose one experience at the sacrifice of all other experiences."


"All our final resolutions are made in a state of mind which is not going to last."


"You must be careful never to allow doubt to paralyze you. always take the decisions you need to take, even if you're not sure you're doing the right thing. You'll never go wrong if, when you make a decision, you keep in mind an old German proverb: 'The devil is in the detail.' Remember that proverb and you'll always be able to turn a wrong decision into a right one."


"Each of us has the right and the responsibility to assess the roads which lie ahead, and those over which we have traveled, and if the future road looms ominous or unpromising, and the roads back uninviting, then we need to gather our resolve and, carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another direction. If the new choice is also unpalatable, without embarrassment, we must be ready to change that as well."


"Priorities are simple to establish, what is desire and what is necessity?"


"You have what it takes to push forward or to move backwards, but only one of these directions is capable of compensating you for all your pain and sufferings."


"She asked him to come and see her that night. He agreed, in order to get away, knowing that he was incapable of going. But that night, in his burning bed, he understood that he had to go see her, even if he were not capable. He got dressed by feel, listening in the dark to his brother's calm breathing, the dry cough of his father in the next room, the asthma of the hens in the courtyard, the buzz of the mosquitoes, the beating of his heart, and the inordinate bustle of a world that he had not noticed until then, and he went out in the sleeping street."


"Options abound in our world. You can choose where to stay and how to stay there. Where you are Today is as a result of the option you took yesterday and no doubt where you will be Tomorrow is embedded in your option Today. Choose right; choose wisely, Take THE BEST OPTION. The Best Option will deliver your inheritance to you. It will change your state and deliver to you, your brand new estate. You do not blame anyone for failing to do it right the first time. You accept the blame. The Best Option will cause you to get it right the first time and always."


"You have to cross many bridges and you have to walk many paths in your life! But what is more important than this is to know which bridges you should not cross and which paths you must not walk!"


"For the real writers, every decision is either write or wrong."


"It turns out that indecision is a path itself; but figuratively, a vertical path - up or down - meaning it isn't always a fruitless path. One is forgotten, but the other is glorified. To be what they call 'middle-of-the-road' in most cases just means you have a hard time figuring out who between options is dumber. So quite often those who refused to decide were, after all, the bold individuals, the influential ones, the creative ones, those who snatched their own authority."


"Winning is a choice, but losing is an option."


"The major mistake people pursue in decision making is to surround themselves with negatively minded people. People who are going nowhere will never take you anywhere, people who are going everywhere can take you somewhere."


"Indecision is the reluctance or inability to pass a judgment on an issue under consideration. Indecision means you have come to crossroads and you cannot make your mind."


"If your idea is not against your conscience or the will of God, go for it."


"The thorny path to greatness is better than the rosy path to mediocrity."


"The trouble with making an important decision was that you never had enough information to do it without hesitating. And it's the hesitation that gnawed at you and never helped you to make the decision."


"Choice, choices, choices! Choose rightly. Choose the things that brings you highest fulfillment. Commit your life to the choices you have made."


"We must make tough decisions to see if it's worth it in the end."


"What if you were wrong? What if everything you ever believed was a lie? What if you missed your opportunity because you didn't know your worth? What if you settled on familiar, but God was trying to give you something better? What if you decided not to go backwards, but forward? What if doing what you have never done before was the answer to everything that didn't make sense? What if the answer wasn't to be found in words, but in action? What if you found the courage to do what you really wanted to do and doing it changed your whole life?"


"When you get to the junction of choices, ponder!"
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