If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people. ~Thich Nhat Hanh

DECISION/CHOICE

1.    A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.  ~Rita Mae Brown

2.    Although every man believes that his decisions and resolutions involve the most multifarious factors, in reality they are mere oscillation between flight and longing.  ~Herman Broch

3.    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. ~ T. Boone Pickens

4.    Chance favors only the prepared mind. ~Louis Pasteur

5.    Choices are the hinges of destiny.  ~Pythagoras

6.    Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be. Custom will soon render it easy and agreeable. ~Pythagoras

7.    Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be. Custom will soon render it easy and agreeable. ~Pythagoras

8.    Consider what you think justice requires, and decide accordingly.  But never give your reasons; for your judgment will probably be right, but your reasons will certainly be wrong.  ~Lord Mansfield

9.    Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work. ~H. L. Hunt

10.  Decisions become easier when your will to please God outweighs your will to please the world.  ~Anso Coetzer

11.  Developing the plan is actually laying out the sequence of events that have to occur for you to achieve your goal. ~George L. Morrisey

12.  Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand. ~Euripides

13.  'Do somethings' are not moved by the criticism of 'do nothings'. ~Peter Sinclair

14.  Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there. ~Will Rogers

15.  Everything is something you decide to do, and there is nothing you have to do.  ~Denis Waitley

16.  Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

17.  Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently. ~William A. Ward

18.  Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for - because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything. ~Peter Marshall

19.  Good decisions come from experience, and experience comes from bad decisions.  ~Author Unknown

20.  In a minute there is time for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.  ~T.S. Eliot

21.  In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do. The worst thing you can do is nothing. ~Theodore Roosevelt

22.  Indecision becomes decision with time.  ~ Unknown

23.  Indecision is debilitating; it feeds upon itself; it is, one might almost say, habit-forming. Not only that, but it is contagious; it transmits itself to others. ~H. A. Hopf

24.  It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions. ~Jim Rohn

25.  It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.  ~Roy Disney

26.  Life is the sum of all your choices.  ~Albert Camus

27.  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

28.  Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide. ~Napoleon Bonaparte

29.  Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide. ~Napoleon Bonaparte

30.  Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

31.  Reconsider, v.  To seek a justification for a decision already made.  ~Ambrose Bierce

32.  Some persons are very decisive when it comes to avoiding decisions.  ~Brendan Francis

33.  Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in. ~Napoleon Bonaparte

34.  Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. ~Erica Jong

35.  The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.  ~Flora Whittemore

36.  The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.  ~Elbert Hubbard

37.  The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.  ~David Russell

38.  The immature mind hops from one thing to another; the mature mind seeks to follow through. ~Harry A. Overstreet

39.  The inability to make a decision has often been passed off as patience.  ~Unknown

40.  The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want. ~Ben Stein

41.  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. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward. ~Amelia Earhart

42.  The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started. ~Unknown

43.  The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started. ~Unknown

44.  The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions. ~Mike Krzyzewski

45.  The wise man bridges the gap by laying out the path by means of which he can get from where he is to where he wants to go.  ~John Pierpont Morgan

46.  There are only two options regarding commitment. You're either in or out. There's no such thing as a life in-between. ~Pat Riley

47.  There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. ~ William James

48.  To decide is to walk facing forward with nary a crick in your neck from looking back at the crossroads.  ~Betsy Cañas Garmon

49.  Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.  ~Anthony Robbins

50.  Vacillating people seldom succeed. Successful men and women are very careful in reaching their decisions, and very persistent and determined in action thereafter. ~L. G. Elliott

51.  We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. ~Kahlil Gibran

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

53.  When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature. ~Sigmund Freud

54.  When one bases his life on principle, 99 percent of his decisions are already made.  ~Unknown

55.  When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - choose the bolder.  ~William Joseph Slim

56.  When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.  ~William James

57.  When you have to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice. ~William James

58.  Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision. ~Peter Drucker

59.  You've got a lot of choices.  If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you're not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice.  ~Steven D. Woodhull