The inability to make a decision has often been passed off as patience.
- Author Unknown
Decisions Quotes and Sayings
When confronted with two courses of action I jot down on a piece of paper all the arguments in favor of each one, then on the opposite side I write the arguments against each one. Then by weighing the arguments pro and con and cancelling them out, one against the other, I take the course indicated by what remains.
- Benjamin Franklin
Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.
- William Feather
The tendency of modern science is to reduce proof to absurdity by continually reducing absurdity to proof.
- Samuel Butler
When one bases his life on principle, 99 percent of his decisions are already made.
- Author Unknown
Choice of attention is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.
- W. H. Auden
What I emphasize is for people to make choices based not on fear, but on what really gives them a sense of fulfillment.
- Pauline Rose Chance
Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for the training of a mere beginner.
- Lewis Mumford
False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.
- Horace Mann
Consider what you think justice requires, and decide accordingly. But never give your reasons; for your judgment will probably be right, but your reasons will certainly be wrong.
- Lord Mansfield