Quotes on “Decisiveness”
Decisiveness
…begins by recognizing and understanding all of the choices involved in a situation, and then acts firmly to choose only one of them, resolutely remaining with that choice.
| “Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide .” |
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Napoleon Bonaparte
1769-1821, French General, Emperor
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| “We are given one life, and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.” |
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Omar Nelson Bradley
1893-1981, American General
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| “Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.” |
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George Canning
1770-1827, British Statesman
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| “They are decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be important.” |
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Winston Churchill
1874-1965, British Statesman, Prime Minister
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| “Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness or oppose with firmness..” |
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Charles Caleb Colton
1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer
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| “In addition to self-awareness, imagination and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment-independent will-that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.” |
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Stephen R. Covey
American Speaker, Trainer, Author of “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People”
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| “Everything starts with yourself — with you making up your mind about what you’re going to do with your life. I tell kids that it’s a cruel world, and that the world will bend them either left or right, and it’s up to them to decide which way to bend .” |
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Tony Dorsett
1954- American Football Player
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| “Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.” |
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Brian Tracy
American Trainer, Speaker, Author, Businessman
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| “The person who in shaky times also wavers only increases the evil, but the person of firm decision fashions the universe.” |
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
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| “Decision is a sharp knife that cuts or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was clean and straight; indecision, a dull one that hacks and tears and leaves ragged edges behind it.” |
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Gordon Graham
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| “ It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide what to do.” |
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Elbert Hubbard
1859-1915, American Author, Publisher
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| “A decision without the pressure of consequence is hardly a decision at all.” |
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Eric Langmuir
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| “In making our decisions, we must use the brains that God has given us. But we must also use our hearts which He also gave us. A man who has not learned to say, “No” — who is not resolved that he will take God’s way, in spite of every dog than can bay or bark at him, in spite of every silvery choice that woos him aside — will be a weak and a wretched man till he dies.” |
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Alexander Maclaren
1826-1910, British Preacher
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| “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 Syndrome. You must be willing to fire.” |
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T. Boone Pickens
American Businessman, Chairman of Mesa Petroleum
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| “A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.” |
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Chinese Proverb
Sayings of Chinese Origin
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| “In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and worst thing you can do is nothing.” |
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Theodore Roosevelt
1858-1919, Twenty-sixth President of the USA
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