Decisiveness Quotes

Jun 24, 2024 | Character Quotables

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“You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.”
-Michelle Obama

“Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.”
-Brian Tracy

“The day you decide to do it is your lucky day.”
-Japanese Proverb

“We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.”
-Stephen Covey

“Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.”
-Charles Caleb Colton

“Deliberate often — decide once.”
-Latin Proverb

“It’s not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.”
-Roy Disney

“Don’t make the same decision twice. Spend time and thought to make a solid decision the first time so that you don’t revisit the issue unnecessarily.” 

— Bill Gates

“Great leaders don’t lead others with bitterness or resentfulness of past mistakes, they lead with hope and knowledge of the past to inform greater decision making in the future.”
– Spencer Fraseur

“The future is fluid. Each act, each decision, and each development creates new possibilities and eliminates others. The future is ours to direct.”
– Jacque Fresco

“The only way to make the right decision is to find out which is the wrong decision, to examine that other path without fear, and only then decide.”
– Paulo Coelho

“A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.”
– Plato

“Decision making is power. Most people don’t have the guts to make ‘tough decision’ because they want to make the ‘right decision’ and so they make ‘no decision’. Remember, live is short, so do things that matter the most and have the courage to make ‘tough decision’ and to chase your dreams.”
– Yama Mubtakeraker

“There’s no wrong time to make the right decision.”
– Dalton McGuinty

“Visionary decision-making happens at the intersection of intuition and logic.”
– Paul O’Brien

“Some of our important choices have a time line. If we delay a decision, the opportunity is gone forever. Sometimes our doubts keep us from making a choice that involves change. Thus an opportunity may be missed.”
– James E. Faust

“A bird hanging between two branches will get bitten on both wings.”
-Ethiopian Proverb

“When written in Chinese, the word crisis is composed of two characters.  One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.”
-John F. Kennedy

“Remember, a real decision is measured by the fact that you’ve taken new action. If there’s no action, you haven’t truly decided.”
-Anthony Robbins

“How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.”
-Wayne Dyer

“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

“It’s better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.”
-Marilyn Moats Kennedy

“Decision is a sharp knife that cuts clean and straight; indecision, a dull one that hacks and tears and leaves ragged edges behind.”     
– Gordon Graham

“Life is a matter of choices, and every choice you make makes you.”
—John Maxwell

“Life is a chess match. Every decision that you make has a consequence to it.”
– P.K. Subban

“Poor decision making I think, is the number one cause for most of our mistakes. So to make fewer mistakes means to make better decisions, and to make better decisions you must train yourself to think more clearly.”
– Rashard Royster

“Don’t mourn over your bad decisions. Just start overcoming them with good ones.”

– Joyce Meyer

“The best decisions aren’t made with your mind, but with your Instinct.”
– Lionel Messi

“Shelving hard decisions is the least ethical course.”
– Adrian Cadbury

“You cannot make progress without making decisions.”
– Jim Rohn

“The quality of your life is built on the quality of your decisions.”
– Wesam Fawzi

“Sometimes you make the right decision, sometimes you make the decision right.”
– Phil McGraw

“To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.”
– Kofi Annan

“A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.”
-Chinese Proverb

“Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.”
-Anthony Robbins

“Character is one factor that will guide all our actions and decisions. We invested in uncompromising integrity that helped us take difficult stands in some of the most difficult business situations.”
-Azim Premji

“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”
-John Wooden

“The cure for most obstacles is – be decisive.”
~George Weinberg

“Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions.”
-Mark Twain

“It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.” 

– Anthony Robbins

“Choices are the hinges of destiny.”
– Pythagoras

“When possible make the decisions now, even if action is in the future. A revised decision usually is better than one reached at the last moment.”
– William B. Given

“It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.”
– Thomas Sowell

“It is often said that a wrong decision taken at the right time is better than a right decision taken at the wrong time.”
– Pearl Zhu

“Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.”
– Tony Robbins

“Every decision brings with it some good, some bad, some lessons, and some luck. The only thing that’s for sure is that indecision steals many years from many people who wind up wishing they’d just had the courage to leap.”
– Doe Zantamata

“May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.”
– Nelson Mandela

“Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.”
– Malcolm Gladwell

“Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.”
– Napoleon Bonaparte

“A leader, once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one, must be undaunted when the going gets tough.”

-Ronald Reagan

How can you use Quotes?

  • Start a discussion: Quotes can start a discussion about a character trait at the beginning of a meeting or the dinner table. You can ask questions about what it means, how they have seen the trait demonstrated in their own lives, or how they can develop it themselves.
  • Provide a model: Quotes can provide a model of good character. When you read a quote from a famous person or historical figure, you show that people they admire also value the same character traits.
  • Use quotes as writing/journal prompts: Ask them to write a short essay about a quote to help them think more deeply about its implications for their lives.
  • Post quotes: You can post quotes where they will be seen/heard often – classroom, breakroom, lobby, dining room, email signatures, video bulletin boards, morning announcements, social media, etc.
  • Read quotes aloud: You can read quotes aloud to your children during mealtimes, bedtime, or any other time you spend together.
  • Make it fun:  You can make it even more fun by incorporating games, activities, or crafts. Let children decorate signs with the quotes to hang in the classroom or a bedroom door. Record children saying it and post it on social media.