He sat on the fence so long that the iron entered into his soul.
Lloyd George The Patient Has the Floor
Categories: decisions decision-making commitment

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.
Stephen Covey Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living the Seven Habits
Categories: choice will achievement decision-making

Courage is a moral quality; it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives, the fixed resolve not to quit; an act of renunciation which must be made not once but many times by the power of the will. Courage is will power.
Lord Moran Thoughts on Leadership: A Treasury of Quotations
Categories: courage strength choice decision will

There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.
David Mahoney Leadership: A Treasury of Great Quotations for Those Who Aspire to Lead
Categories: action decision-making decisions

He who weighs his responsibilities can bear them.
Martial Alexandra Stoddard's Book of Days
Categories: decisions decisionmaking decision-making

You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
Susan Podziba "She stands on common ground" by Jill Rosenfeld, Fast Company, January/February 2000
Categories: leadership teaching parenting decision making

People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.
Harvey Mackay Harvey Mackay's United Features syndicated column
Categories: success attitude decision vision mission goals

If a man would move the world, he must first move himself.
Socrates The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: motivation change effort work action decision

Ask advice from everyone, but act with your own mind.
Yiddish proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: proverb advice thought action self-confidence decision

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
George Jean-Nathan The Forbes Book of Business Quotations: 14,266 Thoughts on the Business of Life
Categories: anger angry temper decisions mad decision-making

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: 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.
General Omar Bradley The New Encyclopedia of Christian Quotations
Categories: action decision leadership courage determination circumstances procrastination

He who builds according to every man's advice will have a crooked house.
Danish proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: advice counsel too many cooks self-confidence decision proverb thought

Never cut what you can untie.
Joseph Joubert The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: planning preparation care decision-making problem solving

Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing so futile.
Bertrand Russell Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: commitment decision-making wishy-washy procrastination put off failure action

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
Benjamin Disraeli Words for All Occasions
Categories: education learning wisdom knowledge history past study decision-making