Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.
George Canning, 1770 - 1827, English statesman
The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
Moshe Ben Maimon (Maimonides), 1135 - 1204, Jewish philosopher, jurist, physician
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
William James, 1842 - 1910, US philosopher, psychologist, Principles of Psychology, vol. 1, ch. 4, 1890
Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
Bertrand Russell
Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision.
Oscar Levant, 1906 - 1972, US composer, musician, actor
Indecision is like a stepchild: if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty; if he does, he is wasting water.
African proverb
Indecision regarding the choice among pleasures temporarily robs a man of inner peace. After due reflection, he attains joy by turning away from the lower pleasures and seeking the higher ones.
I Ching
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
William James
The majority of people are timid by nature, and that is why they constantly exaggerate danger. All influences on the military leader, therefore, combine to give him a false impression of his opponent's strength, and from this arises a new source of indecision.
Karl von Clausewitz
Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: A wrong decision is better than indecision.
From "The Sopranos" (1999) (TV)
Admiral Nimitz: Indecision is a virus that can run through an army and destroy it's will to win. Or even to survive.
From "In Harm's Way" (1965) (Movie)
Judy: Oh dear, by the time I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision.
From "The Jetsons Christmas Carol" (1985) (TV)
Lydia: I'm trying to be your girlfriend Gerry! I'm trying to win you back! I'm standing on the platform at Limbo Central with my heart and soul packed in my suitcase waiting for the Gerry Fucking Express to roll in and tell me that my ticket is still valid and that I may reboard the train. Only the station announcer keeps coming on and telling me that my train has been delayed as the driver has suffered a major panic attack in Indecision City, "We suggest you take the bus"! That's what I have been trying to do, you cripple!
From "Sliding Doors" (1998) (Movie)
Lose this day loitering; t'will be the same old story tomorrow, and the next day more dilatory ... Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting o'er lost days ... What you can do or think you can, begin it--boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832
Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970
You need an infinite stretch of time ahead of you to start to think, infinite energy to make the smallest decision. The world is getting denser. The immense number of useless projects is bewildering. Too many things have to be put in to balance up an uncertain scale. You can't disappear anymore. You die in a state of total indecision.
Jean Baudrillard
We are always getting ready to live, but never living.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 13 Apr. 1834
Then indecision brings its own delays, / And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust
The chief element of success ... for "he who from indecision standeth still hath not so many chances of going astray as he who pusheth forwards."
Ambrose Bierce, (Sir Thomas Brewbold), 1842 - 1914, US journalist, short-story writer, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
Napoleon Bonaparte, 1769-1821, French General, Emperor
We are given one life, and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
Omar Nelson Bradley, 1893-1981, American General
They are decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.
Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Statesman, Prime Minister
Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness or oppose with firmness.
Charles Caleb Colton, 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer
In addition to self-awareness, imagination and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment-independent will-that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
Stephen R. Covey, American Speaker, Trainer, Author of ''The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People''
Everything starts with yourself -- with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life. I tell kids that it's a cruel world, and that the world will bend them either left or right, and it's up to them to decide which way to bend.
Tony Dorsett, 1954-, American Football Player
Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.
Brian Tracy, American Trainer, Speaker, Author, Businessman
The person who in shaky times also wavers only increases the evil, but the person of firm decision fashions the universe.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
Decision is a sharp knife that cuts or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was clean and straight; indecision, a dull one that hacks and tears and leaves ragged edges behind it.
Gordon Graham
It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide what to do.
Elbert Hubbard, 1859-1915, American Author, Publisher
A decision without the pressure of consequence is hardly a decision at all.
Eric Langmuir
Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the Ready- Aim-Aim-Aim Syndrome. You must be willing to fire.
T. Boone Pickens, American Businessman, Chairman of Mesa Petroleum
A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
Chinese Proverb, Sayings of Chinese Origin
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
Theodore Roosevelt, 1858-1919, Twenty-sixth President of the USA
Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader.
General George S. Patton quotes (American General in World War I and II, 1885-1945)
Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.
H. L. Hunt
Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives."
Richard Bach quotes (American Writer, author of 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull', b.1936)
Don't you ever wonder maybe if you took a left turn instead of a right you could be someone different?
Anonymous quotes
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
Peter F. Drucker quotes (American Educator and Writer, b.1909)
Know that it's your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.
Tony Robbins
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.
Tony Robbins
When you come to a fork in the road ... Take it.
Yogi Berra
A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.
Rita Mae Brown
When you have to make a choice, and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.
William James
Choices are the hinges of destiny.
Edwin Markham
Some persons are very decisive when it comes to avoiding decisions.
Brendan Francis
You've got a lot of choices. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore, and you're not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice.
Steven D. Woodhull
Life is the sum of all your choices.
Albert Camus
The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
David Russell
The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.
Flora Whittemore
Good decisions come from experience, and experience comes from bad decisions.
Author Unknown
The inability to make a decision has often been passed off as patience.
Author Unknown
Everything is something you decide to do, and there is nothing you have to do.
Denis Waitley
Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.
Will Rogers
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
John W. Turk
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