Top 100 Decision-Making Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “What is the next thing you need for leadership? It is the ability to make up your mind to make a decision and accept full responsibility for that decision.”

— Sam Manekshaw

52. “It is not what happens that determines the major part of your future. What happens, happens to us all. It is what you do about what happens that counts.”

— Jim Rohn

53. “You are free to choose. You are not free not to choose. No choice is a choice. You are free to choose but you are not free to choose the consequences of that choice.”

— Adrian Rogers

54. “You don’t need more time in your day. You need to decide.”

— Seth Godin

55. “Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.”

— Will Rogers

56. “In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

57. “In the end that was the choice you made, and it doesn’t matter how hard it was to make it. It matters that you did.”

— Cassandra Clare

58. “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth.”

— Robert Frost

59. “I’ve learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.”

— Maya Angelou

60. “Your decision to walk creates the path ahead.”

— Paulo Coelho

61. “By choosing our path, we choose our destination.”

— Thomas S. Monson

62. “We are a product of the choices we make, not the circumstances that we face.”

— Roger Crawford

63. “You gotta know when to hold ’em, know when to fold ’em, know when to walk away, know when to run.”

— Kenny Rogers

64. “I don’t think you should wait. I think you should speak now.”

— Taylor Swift

65. “We all make mistakes. If you can’t make mistakes, you can’t make decisions. I’ve made a lot bigger mistakes myself.”

— Warren Buffett

66. “When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?”

— John Maynard Keynes

67. “Analysis Is the Critical Starting Point of Strategic Thinking.”

— Kenichi Ohmae

68. “You are what you are today because of the choices you made in the past.”

— Jim Rohn

69. “We create our own destiny by the way we do things. We have to take advantage of opportunities and be responsible for our choices.”

— Ben Carson

70. “A personal mission statement becomes the DNA for every other decision we make.”

— Stephen R. Covey

71. “Be proactive. Ask yourself, “Are my actions based on self-chosen values or on my moods, feelings and circumstances?””

— Stephen R. Covey

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

— Jeff Bezos

73. “When you are eighty years old, and in a quiet moment of reflection narrating for only yourself the most personal version of your life story, the telling that will be most compact and meaningful will be the series of choices you have made. In the end, we are our choices.”

— Jeff Bezos

74. “Never make a permanent decision about a temporary situation.”

— T.D. Jakes

75. “Choice means giving up something you want for something else you want more.”

— Dan Millman

76. “If the request is wrong, God says, No. If the timing is wrong, God says, Slow. If you are wrong, God says, Grow. But if the request is right, the timing is right and you are right, God says, Go!”

— Bill Hybels

77. “Your life is your ship and you are the captain. Choose your course, take the wheel firmly and get on your way.”

— Michael Josephson

78. “Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

79. “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

80. “Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision.”

— Tony Robbins

81. “The purpose of information is not knowledge. It is being able to take the right action.”

— Peter F. Drucker

82. “Easy short-term choices lead to difficult long-term consequences meanwhile difficult short-term choices lead to easy long-term consequences.”

— Rory Vaden

83. “If you took our top fifteen decisions out, we’d have a pretty average record. It wasn’t hyperactivity, but a hell of a lot of patience. You stuck to your principles and when opportunities came along, you pounced on them with vigor.”

— Charlie Munger

84. “We are the choices we make.”

— Patrick Ness

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

— Napoleon

86. “I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I am still choosing.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

87. “The best advice I can give you is to ask yourself what do you want, then ask ‘what is true’ – and then ask yourself ‘what should be done about it.’ I believe that if you do this you will move much faster towards what you want to get out of life than if you don’t!”

— Ray Dalio

88. “Measure what is important, don’t make important what you can measure.”

— Robert McNamara

89. “Opportunity cost is a huge filter in life. If you’ve got two suitors who are really eager to have you and one is way the hell better than the other, you do not have to spend much time with the other. And that’s the way we filter out buying opportunities.”

— Charlie Munger

90. “What we value determines what we do.”

— Craig Groeschel

91. “The consequences of today are determined by the actions of the past. To change your future, alter your decisions today.”

— S. N. Goenka

92. “A decision made from fear is always the wrong decision.”

— Tony Robbins

93. “Prioritize your problems and take care of them one at a time, the highest priority first. Don’t try to do everything at once or you won’t be successful. A leader who tries to take on too many problems simultaneously will likely fail at them all.”

— Jocko Willink

94. “Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions.”

— James C. Collins

95. “You’ll never go wrong in doing what is right.”

— Robin S. Sharma

96. “The fear of making a decision is the result of fearing to make a mistake – the truth is, the fear of mistakes has a greater impact on you than making the mistakes.”

— Bob Proctor

97. “Everything’s a choice. Nobody’s born good. Nobody’s born evil. It’s always a choice.”

— Tom Hiddleston

98. “The first step to getting anywhere is deciding you’re no longer willing to stay where you are.”

— Anonymous

99. “Done is better than perfect.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

100. “Screw it. Let's do it.”

— Richard Branson