Careful Decision Quotes

#1. Once you have made a careful decision based on facts, go into action. Don't stop to reconsider. Don't begin to hesitate, worry, and retrace your steps. Don't lose yourself in self-doubting which begets other doubts. Don't keep looking back over your shoulder.

Dale Carnegie

#2. Be careful how you live. Someone is always watching and will look to you as an example, an excuse, or a warning. The message some choices send is why struggle to do the right thing when you can do the wrong thing and be happy. Should we be happy or should we be right?

Donna Lynn Hope

#3. And he knew that at that moment, they understood each other perfectly, and when he told her what he was going to do now, she would not say 'be careful' or 'don't do it', but she would accept his decision because she would not have expected anything less of him.

J.K. Rowling

#4. Before a community can prosper, the people must believe in their leaders. They must know that at the core of every decision is careful planning, hard work, and unbending integrity rather than partisanship or self-gain. They must trust that the awesome power of government is not being abused.

Linda Lingle

#5. I couldn't claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil, but when you descend into hell you have to be very careful.

Kathleen Raine

#6. Once we make the decision to become successful, we must be very careful about associations.

Chrys-Ann Ambrose

#7. 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

#8. Be careful ... any time you find yourself defining the "winner" as someone other than the agent who is currently smiling from on top of a giant heap of utility.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#9. Shall I show you the sinews of a philosopher? What sinews are those? - A will undisappointed; evils avoided; powers daily exercised; careful resolutions; unerring decisions.

Epictetus

#10. By the time I entered college, I had decided not to have children, a decision that was never regretted. Accordingly, I was careful to court only girls who wanted to have professional careers.

Donald Cram

#11. Realism in foreign policy means careful consideration of all aspects pertinent to the issue, before taking a decision. This is the only way you can move from where you are to someplace else.

Henry A. Kissinger

#12. Be careful whom you choose to love. This decision will impact your future life and happiness in ways you cannot yet imagine.

Toni Coleman

#13. It was typical George Stout: detailed, timely, and understated. Here was a man that was never hurried. Who was careful. Punctual. Precise. An expert and a precisionist makes his analysis first, he always said, then his decision.

Robert M. Edsel

#14. I just want to be really careful with decisions I make. When you make a decision about your career, it changes your life in a really big way.

Michael Cera

#15. Remember that the policies are only that:
policies - not rules that must be followed. They
can, and should, be broken from time to time,
but the decision to do so should be made
intentionally and often with careful consideration
from the whole team.

Joakim Sunden