Top 200 Quotes for Better Decisions (2025 Update)
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101. “Life is a matter of choices, and every choice you make makes you.”

— John C. Maxwell

102. “The decisions you make today will determine the stories you tell tomorrow.”

— Craig Groeschel

103. “Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.”

— Oprah Winfrey

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

— Tony Robbins

105. “Highly proactive people don’t blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice.”

— Stephen R. Covey

106. “When you know what’s most important to you, making a decision is quite simple. Most people, though, are unclear about what’s most important in their lives, and thus decision making becomes a form of internal torture.”

— Tony Robbins

107. “If you don’t change the direction you are going, then you’re likely to end up where you’re heading.”

— John C. Maxwell

108. “Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.”

— Denis Waitley

109. “You can make excuses or you can make progress. You choose.”

— Brian Tracy

110. “Actions have consequences.”

— Morton Blackwell

111. “Cumulatively small decisions, choices, actions, make a very big difference.”

— Jane Goodall

112. “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

113. “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

114. “The ultimate purpose of collecting the data is to provide a basis for action or a recommendation.”

— W. Edwards Deming

115. “We all make choices, but in the end our choices make us.”

— Ken Levine

116. “Days are expensive. When you spend a day you have one less day to spend. So make sure you spend each one wisely.”

— Jim Rohn

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

— Joyce Meyer

118. “Your life today is a result of your thinking yesterday. Your life tomorrow will be determined by what you think today.”

— John C. Maxwell

119. “But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.”

— Akio Morita

120. “Never lie; never cheat; never steal. Don’t whine; don’t complain; don’t make excuses.”

— John Wooden

121. “Character is not only doing the right thing when no one is looking, it’s doing the right thing when everyone is looking. It’s being willing to do the right thing even when it costs more than you want to pay.”

— Michael Josephson

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

— Lionel Messi

123. “If you don’t have a plan for what you want, then you will probably find yourself buying into someone else’s plan and later find out that was not the direction you wanted to go. You’ve got to be the architect of your life.”

— Jim Rohn

124. “The goal of forecasting is not to predict the future but to tell you what you need to know to take meaningful action in the present.”

— Paul Saffo

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

— Napoleon Hill

126. “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”

— J.K. Rowling

127. “One of the hardest decisions you’ll ever face in life is choosing whether to walk away or try harder.”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

128. “Being anticipatory is to help make better decisions today in relation to tomorrow’s possible futures.”

— Roger Spitz

129. “You must gain control over your money or the lack of it will forever control you.”

— Dave Ramsey

130. “Trading decisions should be made as unemotionally as possible.”

— Richard Dennis

131. “Don't do anything that you wouldn't feel comfortable reading about in the newspaper the next day.”

— Joel Osteen

132. “When you abandon making choices, you enter the vast world of excuses.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

133. “Your current situation does not determine your future. Your future is determined by your decision to succeed.”

— Tony Robbins

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

— Victor Hugo

135. “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

136. “People will hurt you. But don’t use that as an excuse for your poor choices, use it as motivation to make the right ones.”

— Lecrae

137. “Always choose the future over the past. What do we do now?”

— Brian Tracy

138. “Awareness precedes choice and choice precedes results.”

— Robin S. Sharma

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

— Thomas S. Monson

140. “Do the right thing, and then do the next right thing, and that will lead you to the next right thing after that.”

— Michael J. Fox

141. “When you don’t know what to do, do the thing in front of you.”

— Elisabeth Elliot

142. “Perhaps the very best question that you can memorize and repeat, over and over, is, ‘what is the most valuable use of my time right now?’”

— Brian Tracy

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

— Soren Kierkegaard

144. “Life either happens by design or default, you choose.”

— Bob Proctor

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

— George S. Patton Jr.

146. “Look for solutions, not problems.”

— Dan Eldon

147. “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

148. “Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.”

— Stephen R. Covey

149. “Direction, not intention determines your destination.”

— Andy Stanley

150. “You are free to choose, but you are not free to alter the consequences of your decisions.”

— Ezra Taft Benson