• I worked with a group of people who argued day and night - professors, officials, the Minister of Finance - but there were decisions that I had to make.

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  Shimon Peres

  PoliticianIsraeli1923 · 20th century

  4.4 · 33 votes · 8 reads

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• If you are trying to take a difficult decision and you're weighing up the pros and cons, you have frank conversations. Everybody knows this in their walk of life.

  

  Tony Blair

  PoliticianEnglish1953 · 20th century

  4.2 · 40 votes · 96 reads

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• If you've made up your mind you can do something, you're absolutely right. If you've made up your mind you can't do something, you're absolutely right.

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  Anonymous

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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 the worst thing you can do is nothing.

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  Terence

  PoetRoman

  4.6 · 10 votes · 186 reads

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• Indecision is the seedling of fear.

  

  Napoleon Hill

  WriterAmerican1883 · 19th century

  5.0 · 62 votes · 141 reads

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• It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide what to do.

  

  Elbert Hubbard

  AuthorAmerican1856 · 19th century

  3.1 · 62 votes · 176 reads

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• It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose.

  

  Tony Blair

  PoliticianEnglish1953 · 20th century

  4.6 · 15 votes · 192 reads

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• It is only in our decisions that we are important.

  

  Jean Paul Sartre

  WriterFrench1905 · 20th century

  3.8 · 55 votes · 101 reads

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• Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.

  

  Peter Drucker

  BusinessmanAmerican1909 · 20th century

  4.7 · 38 votes · 20 reads

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• No answer is also an answer.

  

  German proverb

  German

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• No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

  

  Isaac Asimov

  ScientistAmerican1920 · 20th century

  3.2 · 25 votes · 136 reads

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• Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

  

  John D. Rockefeller

  BusinessmanAmerican1839 · 19th century

  4.9 · 24 votes · 107 reads

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• Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.

  

  James Russell Lowell

  PoetAmerican1819 · 19th century

  4.7 · 56 votes · 155 reads

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• Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.6 · 26 votes · 180 reads

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• Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.

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  Walter Benjamin

  PhilosopherGerman1892 · 19th century

  4.2 · 9 votes · 157 reads

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• People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

  

  Peter Drucker

  BusinessmanAmerican1909 · 20th century

  4.8 · 23 votes · 113 reads

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• Somewhere along the line of development we discover what we really are, and then we make our real decision for which we are responsible. Make that decision primarily for yourself because you can never really live anyone else's life, not even your own chil

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  Eleanor Roosevelt

  PoliticianAmerican1884 · 19th century

  4.9 · 59 votes · 34 reads

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• Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

  

  Margaret Thatcher

  PoliticianBritish1925 · 20th century

  3.6 · 36 votes · 91 reads

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• That should be considered long which can be decided but once.

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  Publilius Syrus

  WriterRoman-46 · 1st century BC

  3.0 · 10 votes · 116 reads

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• The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

  

  Henry A. Kissinger

  PoliticianGerman1923 · 20th century

  4.0 · 44 votes · 94 reads

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• The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.

  

  Tony Blair

  PoliticianEnglish1953 · 20th century

  4.6 · 55 votes · 188 reads

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• The difference is wide that sheets will not decide.

  

  English proverb

  English

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• The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  PoliticianAmerican1890 · 19th century

  5.0 · 30 votes · 26 reads

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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.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  3.8 · 54 votes · 48 reads

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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 impotent.

  

  Winston Churchill

  PoliticianBritish1874 · 19th century

  4.1 · 58 votes · 70 reads

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• When you have two alternatives, the first thing you have to do is to look for the third that you didn't think about, that doesn't exist.

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  Shimon Peres

  PoliticianIsraeli1923 · 20th century

  3.0 · 41 votes · 150 reads

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• Whenever I make a bum decision, I go out and make another one.

  

  Harry S. Truman

  PoliticianAmerican1884 · 19th century

  3.2 · 56 votes · 41 reads

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• You know, one of the things I've learnt since coming out of office is how much easier it is to give the advice than take the decision. I mean, you know, it's tough.

  

  Tony Blair

  PoliticianEnglish1953 · 20th century

  4.5 · 33 votes · 187 reads

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