Top 40 Quotes for Better Decisions (2024 Update)

1. “You and only you are responsible for your life choices and decisions.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

Also featured in: Choices Quotes

2. “You cannot make progress without making decisions.”

— Jim Rohn

Also featured in: Progress Quotes

3. “Once a decision is made, you should stop worrying and start working. It’s not always what we know that makes it a good decision. It is what we do to implement and execute it that makes it a good decision.”

— John C. Maxwell

Also featured in: Worry Quotes

4. “Decisions decide destiny, there is no action without decision.”

— Tony Robbins

Also featured in: Self-Improvement Quotes, Destiny Quotes

5. “Every decision you make reflects your evaluation of who you are.”

— Marianne Williamson

6. “You have a brain and mind of your own. Use it, and reach your own decisions.”

— Napoleon Hill

Also featured in: Quotes About the Brain

7. “Decision is the ultimate power. Decisions shape destiny.”

— Tony Robbins

Also featured in: Destiny Quotes

8. “Your legacy is being written by yourself. Make the right decisions.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

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

— Jeff Bezos

10. “In a world where death is the hunter, my friend, there is no time for regrets or doubts. There is only time for decisions.”

— Carlos Castaneda

Also featured in: Regret Quotes, Doubt Quotes

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

— Tony Robbins

Also featured in: Fear Quotes

12. “When you face a problem, solve it then and there if you have the facts necessary to make a decision. Don’t keep putting off decisions.”

— Dale Carnegie

Also featured in: Quotes About Facts

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

— Joyce Meyer

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

— Lionel Messi

15. “The man of decision cannot be stopped! The man of indecision cannot be started! Take your own choice.”

— Napoleon Hill

Also featured in: Choices Quotes

16. “Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.”

— Victor Hugo

17. “Don’t get stuck where you are, keep growing. It’s a decision you have to make because it is easy to get stuck. Make a decision to develop better habits, to have better relationships and just to keep the enthusiasm for life.”

— Joel Osteen

18. “Our lives will depend upon the decisions which we make, for decisions determine destiny.”

— Thomas S. Monson

Also featured in: Destiny Quotes

19. “The thing that cowardice fears most is decision.”

— Soren Kierkegaard

20. “When faced with a decision, many people say they are waiting for God. But I understand, in most cases, God is waiting for me.”

— Andy Andrews

21. “When a decision has to be made, make it. There is no totally right time for anything.”

— George S. Patton Jr.

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

— Michelle Obama

23. “Never make a permanent decision based on a temporary storm.. No matter how raging the billows are today, remind yourself: “This too shall pass!””

— T.D. Jakes

24. “True grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be done.”

— John Wayne

25. “The most difficult thing is the decision to act!”

— Amelia Earhart

26. “Your biography is not your destiny, your decisions are.”

— Tony Robbins

Also featured in: Destiny Quotes

27. “To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.”

— Maxwell Maltz

Also featured in: Habit Quotes

28. “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

Also featured in: Mistake Quotes

29. “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.”

— Amelia Earhart

Also featured in: Quotes About Acting

30. “No decision is, in itself, a decision.”

— William James

31. “Acknowledging what you don’t know is the dawning of wisdom.”

— Charlie Munger

Also featured in: Leadership Quotes, Wisdom Quotes, Personal Growth Quotes

32. “Don’t let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision.”

— Colin Powell

Also featured in: Quotes About Facts

33. “If only I had more money is the easiest way to postpone the intense self-examination and decision-making necessary to create a life of enjoyment – now and not later.”

— Tim Ferriss

34. “Do not plan for ventures before finishing what’s at hand.”

— Euripides

35. “Don’t wavier. Make a decision. Do it now.”

— Billy Graham

Also featured in: Choices Quotes

36. “You must be single minded. Drive for the one thing on which you have decided.”

— George S. Patton Jr.

37. “Life by the yard is hard; by the inch it’s a cinch. Decisions Determine Destiny.”

— Thomas S. Monson

Also featured in: Destiny Quotes

38. “Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.”

— Robert H. Schuller

39. “Contentment with life is not a feeling, but it is a decision we must make.”

— Joyce Meyer

Also featured in: Quotes About Feelings

40. “If your belief system is not founded in an objective reality, you should not be making decisions that affect other people.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

41. “It is only in our decisions that we are important.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

42. “Invert, always invert.”

— Charlie Munger

43. “You don’t have to be brilliant, only a little bit wiser than the other guys, on average, for a long, long time.”

— Charlie Munger

Also featured in: Investing Quotes, Inspirational Career Quotes, Career Development Quotes

44. “No wise pilot, no matter how great his talent and experience, fails to use his checklist.”

— Charlie Munger

Also featured in: Discipline Quotes, Risk-Taking Quotes

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

— Anonymous

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Change Quotes, Progress Quotes

46. “Done is better than perfect.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

Also featured in: Startup Quotes, Action Quotes, Perfection Quotes

47. “Screw it. Let's do it.”

— Richard Branson

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Leadership Quotes, Action Quotes

48. “Recognize reality even when you don’t like it – especially when you don’t like it.”

— Charlie Munger

Also featured in: Leadership Quotes, Investing Quotes, Resilience Quotes

49. “Learn how to ignore the examples from others when they are wrong, because few skills are more worth having.”

— Charlie Munger