Decisions
380 quotes: 49 by Keith Craft, 331 from other voices.
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- People inspire you, or they drain you – pick them wisely.
- Postpone joy, it will diminish. Postpone a problem, it will grow.
- Predicting rain doesn't count; building arks does.
- Quit saying you don't have time. You have time for what you make time for in life.
- Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
- Regret will haunt you more than failure.
- Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.
- So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality.
- So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.
- Solitude is not the absence of company, but the moment when our soul is free to speak to us and help us decide what to do with our life.
- Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.
- Suffer the pain of discipline now to avoid the pain of regret later.
- Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
- Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
- Taking responsibility gives us power and control, because when we recognize the relationship between our choices and their consequences, then the next time we don’t like a consequence we can make a different choice.
- The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
- The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.
- The best math you can learn is how to calculate the future cost of current decisions.
- The biggest decision you make daily is what to focus on.
- The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is, that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.
- The easy choice in the moment almost always makes the future harder. The hard choice almost always makes the future easier.
- The easy path leads downhill.
- The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.
- The first requirement in taking a step in the right direction is to take a step in some direction.
- The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
- The habit of working with a definite chief aim will breed in you the habit of prompt decision, and this habit will come to your aid in all that you do.
- The hard choices – what we most fear doing, asking, saying – these are very often exactly what we most need to do.
- The highway of life is filled with flat squirrels that couldn't make a decision.
- The less you need the approval of others, the easier it is to do what’s right over what’s easy.
- The longer we wait to deal with reality the bigger the price tag.
- The longer you wait to do something you should do now, the greater the odds that you will never actually do it.
- The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides.
- The man who makes decisions with a fixed purpose of carrying them out is, humanly speaking, unconquerable.
- The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them.
- 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.
- The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.
- The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.
- The only person you are destined to become, is the person you decide to be.
- The only power you have on this planet is the power of your decisions.Paulo CoelhoCommonly attributed
- The opposite of hope is despair, and when we despair, it is because we feel there are no choices.