Quotes About Decision

Soon after a hard decision something inevitably occurs to cast doubt.  Holding steady against that doubt usually proves that decision.

— R. I. Fitzhenry

Be willing to make decisions.  That’s the most important quality in a good leader.  Don’t fall victim to what I call the “ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.”  You must be willing to fire.

— T. Boone Pickens

Decision is a sharp knife that cuts clean and straight; indecision, a dull one that hacks and tears and leaves ragged edges behind it.

— Gordon Graham

At the last moment there is always a reason not existing before — namely,  the impossibility of further vacillation.

— George Eliot

The man who see both sides of the question is a man who sees absolutely nothing.

— Oscar Wilde

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road.  They get run over.

— Aneurin Bevan

The man who knows when not to act is wise.  To my mind, bravery is forethought.

— Euripides

Equivocation is halfway to lying, and lying the whole way to hell.

— William Penn

If someone tells you he is going to make a “realistic decision,” you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad.

— Mary McCarthy

He would come in and say he changed his mind — which was a gilded figure of speech, because he didn’t have any.

— Mark Twain

A decision is the action an executive must take when he has information so incomplete that the answer does not suggest itself.

— Arthur W. Radford

We’ll jump off that bridge when we come to it.

— Lester B. Pearson

When you do say Yes, say it quickly.  But always take a half hour to say No, so you can understand the other fellow’s side.

— Francis Cardinal Spellman

When a person tells you “I’ll let you know” — you know.

— Olin Miller

Sir Stafford has a brilliant mind until it is made up.

— Margot Asquith (attrib.), regarding Sir Stafford Cripps