Top 200 Quotes for Better Decisions (2025 Update)
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151. “You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.”

— Michelle Obama

152. “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

153. “Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.”

— Jack Welch

154. “When you make a choice, you change the future.”

— Deepak Chopra

155. “It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one’s acts.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Amelia Earhart

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

— Tony Robbins

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

— John Wayne

159. “When you make a mistake, there are only three things you should ever do about it: 1. Admit it. 2. Learn from it, and 3. Don’t repeat it.”

— Bear Bryant

160. “If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.”

— Neil Peart

161. “Invest in what you know.”

— Peter Lynch

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

— Maxwell Maltz

163. “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

164. “People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.”

— John C. Maxwell

165. “The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.”

— Robert H. Schuller

166. “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

167. “Disciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason.”

— John Ortberg Jr.

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

— William James

169. “When the facts change, I change my mind.”

— John Maynard Keynes

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

— Charlie Munger

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

— Colin Powell

172. “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

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

— Euripides

174. “Don’t waver. Make a decision. Do it now.”

— Billy Graham

175. “Trust your intuition. It is the best friend you will ever have.”

— Judith Orloff

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

— George S. Patton Jr.

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

— Thomas S. Monson

178. “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

179. “Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

— Joyce Meyer

181. “Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.”

— Jim Rohn

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

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

183. “Learn to distinguish what you can and can’t control. Within our control are our own opinions, aspirations, desires and the things that repel us. They are directly subject to our influence.”

— Epictetus

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

185. “The four sayings that lead to wisdom are: ‘I was wrong,’ ‘I’m sorry,’ ‘I don’t know’ and ‘I need help.’”

— Louise Penny

186. “Will what I am about to do bring me closer to, or take me further from my goals?”

— Zig Ziglar

187. “What you do today can change all the tomorrows of your life.”

— Zig Ziglar

188. “Decisions, not conditions, determine what a man is.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

189. “If tomorrow doesn’t happen, would you still do what you’re about to do today? If that answer is no, you’re alive, but you’re not living.”

— Greg Plitt

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

— Anonymous

191. “Done is better than perfect.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

192. “Invert, always invert.”

— Charlie Munger

193. “Your thoughts are incredibly powerful. Choose yours wisely.”

— Joe Dispenza

194. “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

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

— Charlie Munger

196. “Just because we can doesn’t mean we should. Just because we always have doesn’t mean we always have to. Once we know better, we should choose better.”

— Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

197. “Screw it. Let's do it.”

— Richard Branson

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

— Charlie Munger

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

— Jeff Bezos

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

— Charlie Munger