Top 58 Personal Decisions Quotes
#1. It is unthinkable to allow complete strangers, whether individually or collectively as state legislators or others in government, to make such personal decisions for someone else.
Sarah Weddington
#2. Everybody makes personal decisions that are right for them and if you're in political life, you're used to having those analyzed.
Elizabeth Edwards
#3. But you can't make war personal, or you'll never make the right decisions.'
'And if you didn't make personal decisions, you wouldn't be a person. All war is personal somehow, isn't it? For somebody? Except it's usually hate.
Patrick Ness
#4. The God understood as a father figure, who guided ultimate personal decisions, answered our prayers, and promised rewards and punishment based upon our behavior was not designed to call anyone into maturity.
John Shelby Spong
#5. The only realistic view is that a human life arises gradually, which is not much help in making personal decisions or devising public policy.
George C. Williams
#6. People go through life and make personal decisions and sometimes they don't work out. I won't be the first person to be divorced.
Tiki Barber
#7. This is not about abortion or the antics. This is about pro choice versus anti-choice and government intervention in a woman's personal decisions about her life.
Kathleen Turner
#8. I think a person who is disabled should be disabled by no act of their own. If you become disabled because of alcoholism, drugs, or things of that nature, I do not think those conditions qualify someone to be called disabled. I think those conditions result from personal decisions.
Jesse Ventura
#9. Investment decisions and personal decisions don't wait for the picture to be clarified.
Andy Grove
#10. I was making a lot of momentous personal decisions. I was still very very young: when the prize was awarded, I was 33; the work I had done when I was 21.
Joshua Lederberg
#11. No one can become successful for you. It takes personal definitions, personal decisions, personal convictions, personal actions and personal responsibility to succeed in life.
Archibald Marwizi
#12. I make a personal commitment to the direction and success of all the programs in which I invest. I make all major philanthropic decisions myself after taking account of a range of expert opinion.
Mohammed Hussein Al Amoudi
#13. 'Guild Wars 2' is a wider world in that we have a lot of different mechanics available for storytelling. We have our personal story, the story of you, which is tailored for your character. You answer some basic questions; you make some decisions early on, and that follows through.
Jeff Grubb
#14. My personal feeling is that this is how any further improvement of the world will be done: by individuals making Quality decisions and that's all.
Robert M. Pirsig
#15. Personal growth and professional development require mostly being treated like an adult, which is pretty much the opposite of what happens in most workplaces. People need to be able to make decisions. To do that effectively, they need information and training in how to use it.
Jeffrey Pfeffer
#16. Most good decisions that a person make are a result of reflection and the will to change.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#17. We are chained by our own control. Life is nothing more than finding the key that unlocks every part of our soul.
Shannon L. Alder
#18. Make decisions about the President's personal security. He can overrule you, but don't ask him to be the one to counsel caution.
Donald Rumsfeld
#19. We have a tremendous personal responsibility for the way our life has turned out, and an equally important role of steering it into the future. Although we constantly make decisions, we're not always mindful of their far-reaching consequences.
Timber Hawkeye
#20. The best decisions are always made quickly and changed slowly, not made slowly and changed quickly.
John Patrick Hickey
#21. Our decisions are the one thing we can control. Today's the day to make those choices really count.
Michael Hyatt
#22. As human beings, we are responsible for our own lives. Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions. We can subordinate feelings to values.
Stephen Covey
#23. By keeping the truly important things front and center, we often get the perspective we need to make better decisions.
Michael Hyatt
#24. I tried hard. I gave it my best.'
That's the enthusiasm we don't need, the sort that doesn't produce results. The more you're cornered, the more important it is ...
... to make your decisions based on reality and not your personal feelings.
- Takano to Onodera
Shungiku Nakamura
#25. We know, we feel in our guts, that decisions are constantly being made which are going to wreck our ambitions, our dreams, our personal relationships. But the people making those decisions are keeping them secret, because if they don't they'll lose the leverage they have over their subordinates.
John Brunner
#26. You need to be empathetic in your own personal life and we help our neighbors and our friends out who are struggling in our neighborhoods. But we don't make bad decisions based on empathy.
Thomas Sowell
#27. It's our decisions, not our conditions, that ultimately shape the quality of our lives.
Derric Yuh Ndim
#28. I've just grown up a lot and started to encounter some of the big decisions of life in terms of what career I wanted to do and figuring out personal relationships and things.
Lee Norris
#29. What changes your life is not learning more. What changes your life is making decisions & using your personal power & taking action.
Tony Robbins
#30. Personal Vision is often the catalyst for wise decisions.
Andy Stanley
#31. Without any formal personal finance education or trustworthy resources to tell them otherwise, the majority of people in the 18-to-24-year-old age bracket do not know how to use credit effectively, tackle debt or make wise decisions when it comes to spending.
Alexa Von Tobel
#32. When we have clarity on our destination and are grounded in our current reality, we are equipped to make the best decisions possible.
Michael Hyatt
#33. The big problem in making the hard decisions has much to do with the personal and professional well-being of the person making the call.
Chuck Martin
#35. Personal feelings don't make for good politics, legal decisions, or business deals.
Roger Zelazny
#36. Compassion is not only relevant to those who are blameless victims, but also to those whose suffering stems from failures, personal weakness, or bad decisions. You know, the kind you and I make every day. Compassion,
Kristin Neff
#37. A customer facing crucial decisions:
What should I wipe myself with? What should I brush with? His personal hygiene was deteriorating rapidly as he stared at the rows of possibilities, sweating profusely. Would he ever bathe again?
Benson Bruno
#38. 'Foyle's War' made me realise that Churchill actually had questionable morals; his decisions meant that good people died. It must have weighed heavily on his soul, but he never let his personal demons get in the way of what was best for our country.
Honeysuckle Weeks
#39. As the brother of a retired law enforcement officer, I know firsthand that our men and women in uniform perform their duties in the face of tremendous threats and significant personal risk. They put their lives on the line every day, and they often have to make split-second decisions.
Eric Holder
#40. One thing I have learned since coming to Tosu City is that age does not guarantee better decisions or stronger leadership. The ability to put aside personal agendas and decide what is best for the whole does.
Joelle Charbonneau
#41. Every day you make certain decisions and take specific actions that come about as a result of how you think, feel and the habits you tend to indulge
Derric Yuh Ndim
#42. Personal Responsibility is an act of being responsible for results and consequences of your decisions, actions and in-actions in a given situation or circumstance.
Sunday Adelaja
#43. Every decision you ever make has its own consequences. Freedom is not the issue. You have freedom to do what you want, you just cannot do it and not pay the price for it.
John Patrick Hickey
#44. Knowing that conscious decisions and personal memory are much too small a place to live, every human being streams at night into the loving nowhere, or during the day, in some absorbing work.
Rumi
#45. The most important thing that I can share with you is the personal knowledge that decisions are not irrevocable, that choices do come back, sometimes in different forms and in different ways, but they can be remade.
Joan Bennett Kennedy
#46. Life is full of tough decisions, and nothing makes them easy. But the worst ones are really your personal koans, and tormenting ambivalence is just the sense of satori rising. Try, trust, try, and trust again, and eventually you'll feel your mind change its focus to a new level of understanding.
Martha Beck
#47. Take ownership of your life decisions rather than relinquishing that responsibility to others.
Frank Sonnenberg
#48. A personal mission statement becomes the DNA for every other decision we make.
Stephen Covey
#49. We of necessity, are more dependent upon the Spirit to guide us through the vicissitudes of life. Therefore, we are led to seek personal inspiration in life's important decisions.
Richard G. Scott
#50. Be aware that how you feel has a direct impact on your thinking process. When we set standards for ourselves they seem objective, but standards and goal-setting are totally subjective and personal. From The Biology of Success.
Robert Arnot
#51. If collectivizing highly personal medical decisions is evil, then so follows that collectivized medicine is evil.
A.E. Samaan
#52. The virtuous man takes the middle road between the two extremes, making a point of being respectful of his own ideas without changing his personality or style.
Auliq Ice
#53. Wealth gives you options, and your decisions about what to do with your options say much about your character.
Beau Sides
#54. No woman should have her personal health care decisions dictated by the religious beliefs of her boss.
Eric Schneiderman
#55. Remember that your reputation is everything. You build your personal brand through everything you do, whether big actions or small decisions, and that brand will stay with you throughout your career.
Jan Fields
#56. Why the transfer of decisions from those with personal experience and a stake in the outcome to those with neither can be expected to lead to better decisions is a question seldom asked, much less answered.
Thomas Sowell
#57. My personal taste doesn't enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
Al Yankovic
#58. Regardless of your age, you can make better choices in the moment. Small decisions - about how you eat, move, and sleep each day - count more than you think. As I have learned from personal experience, these choices shape your life.
Tom Rath
