Decisions
380 quotes: 49 by Keith Craft, 331 from other voices.
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- Everything will change when your desire to move on exceeds your desire to hold on.
- Everything you do is based on the choices you make. It's not your parents, your past relationships, your job, the economy, the weather, an argument or your age that is to blame. You and only you are responsible for every decision and choice you make. Period.
- Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives – choice, not chance, determines your destiny.
- Executives do many things in addition to making decisions. But only executives make decisions.
- Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
- Fear is going to be a player in your life, but you get to decide how much.
- Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.
- Finally decide that you are an adult who is going to devote the rest of your life to making progress.
- First make the decision. The ‘how’ will come along the way.
- First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.
- Focus does not mean saying yes, it means saying no.
- Focus is a matter of deciding what things you’re not going to do.
- Focusing is about saying no.
- For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
- From this instant on, vow to stop disappointing yourself. Separate yourself from the mob. Decide to be extraordinary and do what you need to do – now.
- Future you pays for the sins of present you. Future you gains from the good of present you. There is no escaping consequence.
- Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice.
- Greatness, it’s a choice. It’s not your destiny.
- Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.
- Hard choices, easy life. Easy choices, hard life.
- Have more fear of regret than failure.
- Having heard all of this you may choose to look the other way but you can never again say you did not know.William WilberforceSourced
- He who considers too much will accomplish little.
- He who deliberately adopts a great end, has, by this act, half accomplished it, has scaled the chief barrier to success.
- He who fails to reflect before acting, walks with his eyes shut and advances with danger. He also falls very often, because the eye of reflection does not enable him to see whither his footsteps lead.
- He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.
- Hear one side, and you will be in the dark; hear both, and all will be clear.
- Hell is paved with good intentions.
- How soon "not now" becomes "never!
- Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.
- I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
- I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.
- I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.
- I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.
- It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
- I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right.
- I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph. No, when I have, fully decided that a result is worth getting, I go about it, and make trial after trial, until it comes.Thomas EdisonSourced
- I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.
- I want to be in the arena. I want to be brave with my life. And when we make the choice to dare greatly, we sign up to get our asses kicked. We can choose courage or we can choose comfort, but we can’t have both. Not at the same time.
- I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.