Top 100 Best Decision Quotes
#1. Forgiveness is "selective remembering" - a conscious decision to focus on love and let the rest go. But the ego is relentless - it is "capable of suspiciousness at best and viciousness at worst.
Marianne Williamson
#2. Being on a Paul Thomas Anderson film, the best decision an actor can make is to listen to Paul Thomas Anderson. Because he's probably not going to steer anyone in the wrong direction. I would always say go with your gut on any other movie set, but with Paul, I would say go with Paul's gut.
Rami Malek
#3. Not cocky overconfidence that comes from collecting biased information and ignoring uncertainties, but the real confidence that comes from knowing you've made the best decision that you could.
Chip Heath
#4. As a parent, I can empathize with how difficult raising children can be. There are challenges, especially within the framework of divorce, when parental guilt can sometimes blur what should be the best decision.
LZ Granderson
#5. Roger Goodell makes $40 million a year, which more than compensates him for the most difficult and sensitive decision in his nine years as commissioner: How hard to come down on Tom Brady, the best quarterback in NFL history, who Goodell told me last year is a "great ambassador for the game"
Gary Myers
#6. What you're always trying to achieve in a creative relationship is one that is egoless ... ideas belong to the collective. If you can disassociate your own ego from your idea, then, almost always, everybody will arrive at the same decision as to what is best.
Dave Genn
#7. This is America, and you have the right to remain sick. If you choose to treat yourself and your family, that is within your rights, and is necessarily your sole decision based on what you know to be best.
Andrew Saul
#8. Sometimes jn your life you make a decision and you find yourself questioning it. A lot. You don't regret it, exactly.you know that you probably made the best choice and that you're probably better off for it. But you do spend a lot of time wondering what the hell you were thinking
K.A. Tucker
#9. The best decisions aren't made with your mind, but with your Instinct.
Lionel Messi
#10. Decision making and problem solving are not the same. To solve a problem, one needs to find a solution. To make a decision, one needs to make a choice.
Michael J. Marx
#11. My best business decision is always to have been unembarrassed about negotiating a decent deal. Not being coy or shy about money is second nature to me.
Anne Robinson
#12. The paradox is that by the time you get to be senior, the decisions that matter the most are the ones that would be best made made by people who are junior ...
Seth
#13. You're the best bad decision I ever made, and you are, by far, my favorite story to tell.
Jay Crownover
#14. With every decision you make in your life, you're going to have some regrets about the way it goes. You just have to chose which set of regrets you can live with the best, and try to minimize the amount of regrets you have.
John Rzeznik
#15. Listening to a book and in the same time playing chess is one of the best decision ever made.
Deyth Banger
#16. While a democratic process is morally desirable for arriving at a decision, it doesn't necessarily produce the best outcomes.
Pawan Mishra
#17. I became a vegetarian out of compassion for animals and to live as healthy as possible. I realized soon after that I was truly concerned with nonviolent consumption and my own health, a vegan diet was the best decision.
Davey Havok
#18. Be nice to your parents. When they made the decision to have a child, whether it was planned or not, they were changing their entire lives to do the best they could for this new human being. A lot of young people, we don't understand that.
Jason Mraz
#19. Fulfilling your vision for the best year of your life requires thought and introspection. It is not much different than planning an awesome vacation. It takes time, discussion, planning, decision making, and an array of other skills.
Debbie Ford
#20. In a moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.
Theodore Roosevelt
#21. In any match, there are few critical moments where there's no second best decision. The rest of the moves are intuitive.
Viswanathan Anand
#22. With more money brings more fear and when you're trying to be creative in a fear-based environment it's dangerous. Then decisions are made out of fear, not what's best for the film.
Lake Bell
#23. Great mentors don't solve your problems, they guide you to make your best decision and encourage you to take personal ownership of the next steps for success.
Steve Knox
#24. You cannot make a mistake, you can only make a decision that will be your next best step.
Neale Donald Walsch
#25. Don't allow your emotions to get in the way of clearheaded decisions about what's best for you.
Ken Weber
#26. Sometimes the smallest decisions reap the biggest rewards ... and you were the best decision I ever made.
Loni Flowers
#27. At best the principles that economists have supposed the choices of rational individuals to satisfy can be presented as guidelines for us to consider when we make our decisions.
John Rawls
#28. Always trust yerself, lass. There's not a soul in this world that has a heart like yers. Plenty o' smart people here, aye, but logic ain't always the best way to a decision. Can ye remember that? -Alban Dewberry
E.S. Lowell
#29. Sometimes there doesn't seem to be any right or wrong, just circumstances. You make the best decision you can at the time and move on.
George W. Parker
#30. Better a good decision quickly than the best decision too late.
Harold Geneen
#31. Sometimes knowing what's right isn't a rational decision, or even what works on paper. Sometimes leaving is the best course of action after all.
Jodi Picoult
#32. Never forget that absolutely everything you do is for your customers. Make every decision - even decisions about whether to expand the business, raise money, or promote someone - according to what's best for your customers.
Derek Sivers
#33. My best career decision was probably not giving up when I wanted to. God as well as my family and friends were there for me during my toughest times.
Jeremy Lin
#34. I made the best business decision at 14 when I decided to get into acting. The worst was owning 2 homes at the same time.
Tamala Jones
#35. I think that every decision I made came from what's best for the kids. If both parents have the children's best interests in mind, it's going to go OK. The second that the parents don't do that, it gets ugly.
Josie Bissett
#36. In the ruling, Justice Roberts, who wrote the decision, referred to cell phones as not just phones but, quote, "cameras, video players, rolodexes, calendars, tape recorders, libraries, and diaries," unquote. Plus, he went on, best friends, lovers ...
Peter Sagal
#37. For every leader in the company, not just for me, there are decisions that can be made by analysis. These are the best kinds of decisions!
Jeff Bezos
#38. Right after 'Backspacer,' my best friend got killed tragically. Something happened to me then where I got super motivated. I had a shelf of all this unfinished music ... So I just went to work and made a conscious decision that I was going to finish a bunch of stuff. Life's short.
Jeff Ament
#39. I am sure you will be guided right in your decision, to place implicit faith in his integrity and honesty. Best wishes from one who has known Richard longer than anyone else. His mother
Hannah Milhous Nixon
#40. The toy business began to drive the [Lucasfilm] empire. It's a shame. They make three times as much on toys as they do on films. It's natural to make decisions that protect the toy business, but that's not the best thing for making quality films.
Gary Kurtz
#41. Make your decisions promptly. It is better to act quickly even though your tactics are not the best.
Adolph Malan
#42. We can use decision-making to choose the habits we want to form, use willpower to get the habit started, then - and this is the best part - we can allow the extraordinary power of habit to take over. At that point, we're free from the need to decide and the need to use willpower.
Gretchen Rubin
#43. I am not and never will be perfect. I am not always as honest, respectful, responsible, fair or as kind as I should be. All I can do is what I should do: strive every day, with every decision to be the best person I can be. I don't expect to be perfect but I know I can be better.
Michael Josephson
#44. We may have the best of intentions in trying to discern God's will, but we should really stop putting ourselves through the misery of overspiritualizing every decision. Our misdirected piety makes following God more mysterious than it was meant to be
Kevin DeYoung
#45. Under our Constitution, military leaders have no choice but to endorse the president's decision after giving him their best advice.
Robert Kagan
#46. Finding the best person or the best organization to invest your money is one of the most important financial decisions you'll ever make.
Bill Gross
#48. Life certainly points it out to you - 'you can go this way or the other way.' You have to decide and it's a very strong decision because, would you sleep well knowing that you're living in the best place, but you're letting the place where you should live alone?
Gael Garcia Bernal
#49. Once the decision has been made, close your ear even to the best counter argument: sign of a strong character. Thus an occasional will to stupidity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#50. Sometimes the decision is placed in your hands and you just have to go with it, right or wrong, according to what you think is best.
C.S. Friedman
#51. My position is to listen to my constituents, learn from the best information available and ultimately make sound, rational decisions that are going to be beneficial to the people of the 8th Congressional District.
Gabrielle Giffords
#52. I think sometimes the best mothers are simply those who make the decision to love their children every day, regardless of what happens.
Karen White
#53. Forgive yourself for what you think you've done or not done. At every moment, you had your reasons for all of your actions and decisions. You've always done the best that you could do. Forgive yourself.
Doreen Virtue
#54. A man's judgment is best when he can forget himself and any reputation he may have acquired and can concentrate wholly on making the right decisions.
Raymond A. Spruance
#55. There, that's better. Now you look like the wild scrub that fell into my life."
"Because you loosened the vent's screws."
"Best. Decision. Ever.
Maria V. Snyder
#56. You seem to think that everyone can save money if they have the character to do it. As a matter of fact, there are innumerable people who have a wide choice between saving and giving their children the best possible opportunities. The decision is usually in favor of the children.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#57. We cannot force our self to stay longer with something,situation or with the person who we don't really like . The best decision is to move on so then we can stay happy with our life style.
Deepa Mehta
#58. Whatever the opposite of regret is best describes how I've always felt about that decision - it opened me up to a million creative opportunities I needed to experience away from the bull and distorting mirrors that fame engenders.
David Knopfler
#59. Some decisions, like opening a fire hydrant to put out a fire, are easy to make. Other decisions, like deciding how to best distribute a drought-limited water supply among urban, rural and recreational uses, require careful deliberation.
Ben Nelson
#60. You have to do what's best for you and what's going to make you happy at the end of the day because no one can live with the consequences or anything that comes with your decision besides you.
LeBron James
#61. Decision it was only necessary for him to concentrate his attention for a few moments and the spirit moved him, and the best possible decision presented itself as though an inner voice had told him what to do.
Leo Tolstoy
#62. Going to rehab was the best decision I ever made.
Lara Stone
#63. I read a lot of scripts. I believe you've got to read one that you know you're not going to do, because you've got to educate yourself on what's out there to make the best decision for you.
Eva Mendes
#64. I think the best work of the director is to listen to what all the technicians around him have to say, but then the thing is to take the best decision, what you think is the best. Then, that is the moment where you have to have all the film in your head and imagine how all of that will fit together.
Marjane Satrapi
#65. When you receive a cancer diagnosis, you're more vulnerable than at any other time in your life. I've personally had the experience twice. My only hope for survival was alternatives. But that was my decision, what I thought was best for me.
Suzanne Somers
#66. Trying to be the best. Failing. Getting back up. Those characteristics are going to allow you to make great decisions. They are going to allow you to compete. They are going to allow you to achieve your best. That's the American dream.
Ronnie Lott
#67. Outside advice can only tell you how a decision looks. Only you can know how it feels. The best decisions look and feel right.
Simon Sinek
#68. I made a conscious decision to live my life the best way I could and that meant to publicise myself as little as possible.
Keira Knightley
#69. What keeps me level is the refusal to let the best of human aspirations die in the face of the challenges. I make a moral decision to be hopeful.
Alison Hawthorne Deming
#70. Ggrace is God's best idea - it's His decision to ravage people by love, to rescue passionately, and to restore justly.
Max Lucado
#71. I'm surprised I'm still living. I ain't really make the best of decisions in my life, but for some reason, it missed me. It's weird - that's what I always think, like, "Maybe something's going to happen."
Fetty Wap
#72. The interesting thing I learned was that if you're really concerned about your health, the best decisions for your health turn out to be the best decisions for the farmers and the best decisions for the environment-and that there is no contradiction there.
Michael Pollan
#73. Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can. Injustice is happening now; suffering is happening now. We have choices to make now. To insist on absolute certainty before starting to apply ethics to life decisions is a way of choosing to be amoral.
Richard Stallman
#74. I would say my best decision I ever made was to pursue my dream and give it my all. Thankfully, I have not yet made really bad decisions, I'm the kind of person to play it on the safe side.
Zendaya
#75. Peter Forsberg's skills and determination made him one of the most powerful forwards in the NHL during the best years of his career. Hearing of his retirement is sad news but one day every athlete has to come to this decision. He should be very proud of all he accomplished throughout his career.
Patrick Roy
#76. If you feel flustered when pressured to make a hard decision in a rush, the best answer is usually no.
Faydra D. Fields
#77. Who you spend your life with-much more so than how you choose to spend it-is the most important decision you can make. Do it right. That's the best advice I can give you.
Eli Broad
#78. Somewhere along the line, I conditioned myself to be a quick thinker. I take a step back and try to assess the situation, then make the best decision possible at the moment.
Jonathan Sadowski
#79. Neoliberalism works best when there is formal electoral democracy, but when the population is diverted from the information, access, and public forums necessary for meaningful participation in decision making.
Noam Chomsky
#80. The true measure of a best friend is where they are when you "make" the biggest decision of your life, not where they were during the decision process.
Shannon L. Alder
#81. Make your own decision, based on your deepest intuitive wisdom and knowledge. You may make the right decision or the wrong one, but whatever happens, it is your best shot, and you will strengthen your capacity for future action.
David Deida
#82. Everybody grows up and they have to make decisions, and they try and make the best decisions that they know how to. It's taken them their whole lives to finally step out and start making their own decisions.
Justin Bieber
#83. The best decision I made at NYU was joining the Shakespeare ensemble. It literally led to everything I did after that. It gave me the kind of confidence I really needed.
Jesse L. Martin
#84. I have no idea whether beginning with my accident was the best decision, as I've never written a book before. Truth be told, I started with the crash because I wanted to catch your interest and drag you into the story. You're still reading, so it seems to have worked.
Andrew Davidson
#85. I think doing the podcast may have been one of the best career decisions I've ever made in my life.
Chris Hardwick
#86. Doctors and patients need as much data as possible to make an informed decision about what treatment is best.
Ben Goldacre
#87. When it comes down to it, I believe that, having made the decision to bring children into the world, I owe it to them to be as present as I can in their daily lives and to try my best to stay alive until they've made it through to adulthood.
Deborah Copaken Kogan
#88. My faith in God is a huge part of my life, and yeah He has blessed me with an amazing family, and group of friends. In the Bible he tells us to think positively about ourselves, to not be down on ourselves. So I just try to live the way He wants me to, and make the best decisions I can.
Bethany Hamilton
#89. Choices, Choices, Choices!
Listen to your instincts; you will make the best-choices.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#90. The best decisions he has made in his life, he said, were completely unexpected, the ones that cut against convention. Then he went even further. He said that every decision he has forced himself to make because it was unexpected has been a good one.
Michael Lewis
#91. The notion that 'it all somehow must make sense', or 'there is a best decision here', preserves from despair: the difficulty is how to entertain this consoling notion in a way which is not false.
Iris Murdoch
#92. My parents weren't keen on the giving up of school at the beginning to go into singing and dancing, but once they saw I was serious about it, they gave support. I was quite stubborn about my decision, and in the end, they realised it was for the best.
Kate Bush
#93. The best decision-makers are those who are willing to suffer the most over their decisions but still retain their ability to be decisive. One
M. Scott Peck
#94. I was born and raised in Vancouver. I moved to Beijing in 2010 just before the Olympics. Being an Asian Canadian actor, the amount of opportunity at the time was slim to none. I made the decision to go to China, and it was one of the best decisions of my life.
Osric Chau
#95. Leadership is about making the right decision and the best decision before, sometimes, it becomes entirely popular.
Martin O'Malley
#96. The best way to choose the wrong door, or never even open the door, is to let fear run the show. When you reflect on any big-ticket decision you have made on the basis of fear and anxiety, you can almost guarantee you made the wrong decision.
Ramani Durvasula
#97. My best business decision was going into business for myself and owning the box my pretty face was on instead of just being the pretty face on the box. And my worst was letting other people run my business.
Kam Williams
#98. They would know that inconsistency in human decision can make nonsense of the best-planned espionage approach; that cheats, liars and criminals may resist every blandishment while respectable gentlemen have been moved to appalling treasons by watery cabbage in a Departmental canteen.
John Le Carre
#99. I'm not one of those guys that sits and studies all the stages to see what's gonna be my sort of thing. I sort of play in the moment. Everything is split-second decisions, and I try and make the best out of every possible situation.
Magnus Backstedt
#100. After years of infertility tests, the best decision we ever made was to adopt, and in 1987, we were bestowed a three-month-old baby girl from an island off the south coast of Korea called Cheju Island.
Robert M. Parker Jr.
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