Welcome to Decide Quotes, your go-to destination for insightful and thought-provoking quotes on decision-making. Decisions are the cornerstone of our lives, shaping our paths, defining our successes, and influencing our destinies. Whether it’s choosing a career path, making significant life changes, or simply deciding what to have for dinner, every decision holds significance and potential consequences. Here at Decide Quotes, we recognize the power of decision-making and aim to provide you with a collection of quotes that inspire, motivate, and guide you through the decision-making process.
Throughout history, great minds have contemplated the intricacies of decision-making, offering wisdom that transcends time and circumstance. From philosophers to entrepreneurs, leaders to artists, the perspectives on decision-making are as diverse as they are profound. Through the words of these visionaries, we gain insight into the art and science of decision-making, learning from their experiences and reflections. Whether you’re seeking guidance, encouragement, or simply a moment of reflection, Decide Quotes is here to serve as your source of inspiration.
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I do not decide cases based on personal or policy preferences. Brett Kavanaugh
There’s an awful lot of future out there, and what you got to do, is you go to out and grab it, wrestle it to the ground, accept the challenges, and then decide. You’ve got the skills. You’ve got the knowledge. You’ve got the love, and you’re capable of moving forward and making a great life yourself. Gene Kranz
You should not decide until you have heard what both have to say. Aristophanes
Freedom of speech and thought matters, especially when it is speech and thought with which we disagree. The moment the majority decides to destroy people for engaging in thought it dislikes, thought crime becomes a reality. Ben Shapiro
If the people use the wealth bestowed on them by God for themselves alone or for treasuring it, it is like a corpse. But if they decide to share it with others, it becomes sacred food. Guru Nanak
I’m not trying to win an award for being the best vegetarian, just want to be healthy. Take a salt bath. Do things that my parents were never able to do. I’m blessed to do anything I want, so I decide to take the best care of my body and my family in the same way. Holistically. Vitally. Erykah Badu
I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves. Henry Kissinger
If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings. Brian Tracy
What should be the aim of management? What is their job? Quality is the responsibility of the top people. Its origin is in the boardroom. They are the ones who decide. W. Edwards Deming
Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game. Voltaire
You don’t decide to paint. It’s like getting hungry and going to the kitchen to eat. It’s a need, not a choice. Leonora Carrington
But you don’t decide what to do with the info. Thought runs you. Thought, however, gives false info that you are running it, that you are the one who controls thought. Whereas actually thought is the one which controls each one of us. David Bohm
If someone decides they’re not going to be happy, it’s not your problem. You don’t have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity. Joyce Meyer
Each one of us decides to incarnate upon this planet at a particular point in time and space. We have chosen to come here to learn a particular lesson that will advance us upon our spiritual, evolutionary pathway. Louise L. Hay
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. Maya Angelou
The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are. Chauncey Depew
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament. Vladimir Lenin
If I decide to be an idiot, then I’ll be an idiot on my own accord. Johann Sebastian Bach
And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he’s no longer God… They’ll turn on him, and I hope he survives it. John Lennon
All we do is bring the debate from both sides, and let you as a viewer decide where you want to end up on the issue. That’s very important. That’s exactly what happens in ‘Redemption Inc.’ Kevin O’Leary
The 21st Amendment gives the states the right to decide what the drinking ages should be and other aspects relative to alcoholic beverages, and I support that. As a United States senator, I want to weigh in – this is not my agenda. Pete Coors
Men and women are custodians of this society, and we both decide what’s going to happen for our future. I feel that very, very strongly. Cillian Murphy
I don’t decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory. Mahmoud Darwish
Some say it is the elements of hope and wonder in children’s books that make them special. But there are many dark young adult novels these days. Adults loved Harry Potter, though it was written for the young. In the end, it is probably up to the reader of any age to decide if this book is for him or her. Katherine Paterson
Voters don’t decide issues, they decide who will decide issues. George Will
Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me? Alexander Pope
Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell, no! John Belushi
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. J. R. R. Tolkien
You just decide what your values are in life and what you are going to do, and then you feel like you count, and that makes life worth living. It makes my life meaningful. Annie Lennox
Deciding not to decide is, of course, among the most important things done by the Supreme Court. It takes a lot of doing, but it can be done. Thurgood Marshall
It’s when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that’s the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die, or when. You can only decide how you’re going to live. Now. Joan Baez
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. Thomas Jefferson
I guess you’d call me an independent, since I’ve never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label. Jackie Robinson
When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn’t a sign that they ‘don’t understand’ one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to. Helen Rowland
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go. Dr. Seuss
A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord’s pleasure, on most unfruitful soil which abounds in weeds. His Majesty roots up the weeds and will put in good plants instead. Let us reckon that this is already done when the soul decides to practice prayer and has begun to do so. Saint Teresa of Avila
Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny. Bob Marley
Reincarnation occurs because we decide that we haven’t learned enough lessons. Sylvia Browne
The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react. George Bernard Shaw
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide. Napoleon Bonaparte
The world sometimes feels like an insane asylum. You can decide whether you want to be an inmate or pick up your visitor’s badge. You can be in the world but not engage in the melodrama of it; you can become a spiritual being having a human experience thoroughly and fully. Deepak Chopra
To succeed today, you have to set priorities, decide what you stand for. Lee Iacocca
In a parliamentary democracy, it is the job of parliament to decide the law, not the government. Angela Rayner
That is the key of this collection, being yourself. Don’t be into trends. Don’t make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way to live. Gianni Versace
We decide on something, leave it lying around, and wait and see what happens. If no one kicks up a fuss, because most people don’t understand what has been decided, we continue step by step until there is no turning back. Jean-Claude Juncker
The real question is, when will we draft an artificial intelligence bill of rights? What will that consist of? And who will get to decide that? Gray Scott
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. Martin Luther King, Jr.
In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us. Dag Hammarskjold
Not to decide is to decide. Harvey Cox
Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it. Andrew Young
The minute you decide to do what you love to do, you have made a life plan for yourself and a career choice. Huda Kattan
Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work. H. L. Hunt
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
Bullying will eventually end if we all decide to stop it. Choi Si-won
Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop. Richard Branson
Wise men argue causes; fools decide them. Anacharsis
There’s no amount of money that would make me decide something for a career. Eva Longoria
There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means – either may do – the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier. Benjamin Franklin
Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation – what are they? They are the happiest people in the world. William Lyon Phelps
Buyers decide in the first eight seconds of seeing a home if they’re interested in buying it. Get out of your car, walk in their shoes and see what they see within the first eight seconds. Barbara Corcoran
The most important thing is, whatever you do decide to choose, take it seriously and do your best. Tom Sturridge
But there comes a moment in everybody’s life when he must decide whether he’ll live among the human beings or not – a fool among fools or a fool alone. Thornton Wilder
Apartheid – both petty and grand – is obviously evil. Nothing can justify the arrogant assumption that a clique of foreigners has the right to decide on the lives of a majority. Steven Biko
A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but who, as a group, can meet and decide that nothing can be done. Fred Allen
The trouble with blaming powerless people is that although it’s not nearly as scary as blaming the powerful, it does miss the point. Poor people do not shut down factories… Poor people didn’t decide to use ‘contract employees’ because they cost less and don’t get any benefits. Molly Ivins
You’re going to die. You’re going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we’re just going to be gone. The world’s going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself. Bob Dylan
Every day, you reinvent yourself. You’re always in motion. But you decide every day: forward or backward. James Altucher
I totally reject and have rejected throughout my entire career the proposition that the end justifies the means or that a judge should decide cases based on a desire to reach a certain outcome. Amy Coney Barrett
What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form. David Ogilvy
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny. Albert Ellis
I guess I’m just one of these people who, when I decide I’m going to do something, I just do it. Tom Ford
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. Neil Peart
I don’t want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself. Emma Watson
It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope. Pope John XXIII
Pop culture shapes our ideas of what is normal and what our dreams can be and what our roles are. Politics, of course, decides how the power and the money in the country is distributed. Both are equally important, and each affects the other. Gloria Steinem
The people who cast the votes don’t decide an election, the people who count the votes do. Joseph Stalin
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. Arnold Schwarzenegger
No one can decide what you should do, what course of action you should take to get where you wanna go, except for yourself. Kali Uchis
People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things. Edmund Hillary
I don’t really decide what the core of the story is before I write. I write to figure out what the story is. And I think the characters end up talking to you and telling you what they want to be doing and what is important to them. So in some ways, your job is to listen as much as it is to write. Greta Gerwig
If your head tells you one thing, and your heart tells you another, before you do anything, you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart. Marilyn vos Savant
We need the right attitude and the right motivation – that can decide the match above everything else. Sergio Ramos
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want. Ben Stein
It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I don’t have children, and I am not sure if I have wanted them or never wanted them. It’s weird not to be able to decide. Margaret Cho
When you are just starting out with an online business, there’s a good chance that you’ll be making several mistakes. Because of the mistakes that can be made with starting an online business, many people decide to quit or think that online businesses are just a scam. Fabrizio Moreira
Life hits you hard. But it takes you three seconds to decide if you are a superhero or not. I am. Hrithik Roshan
The choices we make lead up to actual experiences. It is one thing to decide to climb a mountain. It is quite another to be on top of it. Herbert A. Simon
All space exploration is risky. As an astronaut, I had to decide each and every time I went to space whether or not to risk my life for the mission. John M. Grunsfeld
Law is made for man and not man for the law. Wherever we can be sure that the most valuable interests of a nation require that we should decide one way, that way we ought to decide. William Godwin
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. Robert Frost
I don’t count on the boy who waits till October, when it’s cool and fun, then decides he wants to play. Darrell Royal
I like all types of women. I accept them as they are when they come into my life… But I’m not a romantic. I’m just up-front. I like to be a part of something real, not make-believe. I tell women to tell me the truth, to just lay it out. Let me be the judge and decide if I want you around or not. Let me have my choice. Future
If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don’t know how to read, you don’t know how to decide. That’s the great thing about our country – we’re a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way. Ray Bradbury
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience. William James
As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy. Christopher Dawson
If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly. Thomas Sowell
When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria, you’ve got to be prepared, as we learned from Iraq and Afghanistan, to become the government, and I’m not sure any country, either the United States or I don’t hear of anyone else, who’s willing to take on that responsibility. Colin Powell
Throughout life, you keep exercising your faith, so when you get into different challenges, you decide, ‘this time I’m going to trust God,’ and God comes through for you. That’s how it kept building and building for me, so I can be confident and go into places knowing that God’s got me. That’s why a lot of times I can be fearless. Bukayo Saka
