Best Decision Quotes

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Take responsibility for your last bad decision, and then let it go. Don’t blame others or make excuses for yourself.

A mistake repeated more than once is a decision.

Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

It doesn’t matter how strong your opinions are. If you don’t use your power for positive change, you are, indeed, part of the problem.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

The most important decisions you make are not the things you do, but the things you decide not to do.

The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.

One of the first things I think young people, especially nowadays, should learn is how to see for yourself and listen for yourself and think for yourself. Then you can come to an intelligent decision for yourself. If you form the habit of going by what you hear others say about someone, or going by what others think about someone, instead of searching that thing out for yourself and seeing for yourself, you will be walking west when you think you’re going east, and you will be walking east when you think you’re going west.

If you think about the long term then you can really make good life decisions that you won’t regret later.

Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.

When confronted, stop, take a deep breath, smile and then make a choice.

Where you are going to spend your time and your energy is one of the most important decisions you get to make in life.

Don’t take a job because your mother wants you to. Don’t be a victim. You own your decision.

Never feel guilty. Don’t hold yourself back by guilt or fear. No other species in the entire world deals with guilt. Guilt is a bizarre emotion that makes you feel bad about decisions that you make.

Forgiveness is both a decision and a process.

Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.

No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.

The qualities of creativity and genius are within you, awaiting your decision to match up with the power of intention.

In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed by the deep inner needs of our nature.

Follow your heart and make it your decision.

Build confidence and momentum with each good decision you make from here on out and choose to be inspired.

The discipline of daily devotion to God undergirds decisions.

After a breakup, it takes a couple weeks for the fog to settle, but it’s always a period of self-priority and growth. Life presents you with so many decisions. A lot of times, they’re right in front of your face and they’re really difficult, but we must make them.

There is no perfect strategic decision. One always has to pay a price. One always has to balance conflicting objectives, conflicting opinions, and conflicting priorities. The best strategic decision is only an approximation – and a risk.

Unless a decision has degenerated into work, it is not a decision; it is at best a good intention.

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.

Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being in love which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.

I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman’s equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling.

I sometimes fear that we have so redefined conversion in terms of human decisions and have so removed any necessity of the experience of God’s Spirit, that many people think they are saved when in fact they only have Christian ideas in their head not spiritual power in their heart.

The only realistic view is that a human life arises gradually, which is not much help in making personal decisions or devising public policy.

If we are not happy with where our past decisions have led us, then the place to start is with our current thinking process.

When values are clear, decisions are easy.

Everyone has to make their own decisions. I still believe in that. You just have to be able to accept the consequences without complaining.