Quotes About Decisiveness

#1. Decisiveness is often the art of timely cruelty.

Henry Becque

#2. If you can train yourself to be actionable instead of reactionary, you will break out of the negative space that is typically furnished with fear, uncertainty and inaction, and move into that peaceful zone of determination, power, decisiveness and growth. Life will become less complicated.

Carlos Wallace

#3. Doctor." Gideon set one ankle on the opposite knee and settled back, creating a picture of unyielding decisiveness.
"The only way I'm keeping my hands off her is if I'm dead. Find another way to fix us."
Chapter 3 pg 50

Sylvia Day

#4. Luck favors the bold. Leaders must fearlessly exploit the Secret of Decisiveness. Act boldly at critical moments.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi

#5. A very difficult year is ahead of us. We must continue our efforts with decisiveness, to stay in the euro, to make sure we do not waste the sacrifices and do not turn the crisis into an uncontrolled and disastrous bankruptcy.

Lucas Papademos

#6. The percentage of mistakes in quick decisions is no greater than in long-drawn-out vacillations, and the effect of decisiveness itself makes things go and creates confidence.

Anne O'Hare McCormick

#7. We associate leadership with decisiveness. That perception of leadership pushes people to make decisions fairly quickly, lest they be seen as dithering and indecisive.

Daniel Kahneman

#8. Sorting gets harder as time goes on
it requires a sort of ruthless decisiveness, while indecision results in endless dithering. Five moves, they say, equal a fire. But those who haven't moved may begin to need a fire. [p. 38]

Mary Catherine Bateson

#9. Great genius you already have. The super conscious mind is invariably triggered by definition, and by decisiveness.

Brian Tracy

#10. The president we have today is a typical Washington politician that's prone to hyperbole and decisiveness and false outrage. And I think it's very sad - very sad to watch.

Marco Rubio

#11. The world is now aware that the most unavoidable and most dangerous weapon that exists is the blind decisiveness of a man ready to sacrifice his life for an obscure cause.

Omar Bongo

#12. No, sir, Stoner said, and the decisiveness of his voice surprised him. He thought with some wonder of the decision he had suddenly made.

John Edward Williams

#13. Gradually the conviction gained recognition that all knowledge about things is exclusively a working-over of the raw material furnished by the senses ... Galileo and Hume first upheld this principle with full clarity and decisiveness.

Albert Einstein

#14. Reflection doesn't take anything away from decisiveness, from being a person of action. In fact, it generates the inner toughness that you need to be an effective person of action - to be a leader.

Peter Koestenbaum

#15. Indecision is the most unsexy thing on the planet. I don't know if I'm sexy but I think decisiveness is sexy. I also lose trust and faith in them when I realise I'm a bit on my own and that's a very disheartening feeling.

Drew Barrymore

#16. To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking - and since it cannot, in order to become its echo I have, in a way, to silence it. I bring to this incessant speech the decisiveness, the authority of my own silence.

Maurice Blanchot

#17. The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.

Napoleon Hill

#18. If it is ever your misfortune to be attacked, alertness will have given you a little warning, decisiveness will have given you a proper course to pursue, and if that course is to counterattack, carry it out with everything you've got! Be indignant. Be angry. Be aggressive.

Jeff Cooper

#19. Decisiveness is the number one quality of a dynamic leader; his ability to communicate a decision with passion and integrity is an art form.

Farshad Asl

#20. Courage, self-reliance and decisiveness are the main traits that define a man.

Ogwo David Emenike

#21. As buoyancy is not contrary to other characteristics of leadership, including decisiveness, accountability and performance standards, I don't ever think it can be self-defeating.

Kevin Allen

#22. DECISIVENESS SEPARATES GREAT LEADERS FROM DREAMERS AND TALKERS.

Jack Canfield

#23. Always you find that the more decisive event wins so my father's sort of annual decisiveness which came upon him on the Day of Atonement every year, he suddenly remembered that he was Jewish.

Janet Suzman

#24. I think in the immediate days after 9/11, the administration acted very, very well. I liked the decisiveness of it.

Ann Richards

#25. The ultimate resources are EMOTIONAL STATES:
Creativity, decisiveness, passion, honesty, sincerity, love
these are the ultimate human resources and when you engage these resources you can get any other resource on earth.

Tony Robbins

#26. Zeus energy, which encompasses intelligence, robust health, compassionate decisiveness, good will, generous leadership. Zeus energy is male authority accepted for the sake of the community.

Robert Bly

#27. If I had to sum up in a word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act.

Lee Iacocca

#28. If I Had To Sum Up In One Word The Qualities That Make Up A Good Manager, I'd Say Decisiveness.

Lee Iacocca

#29. Decisiveness is the one word that makes a good manager.

Lee Iacocca

#30. When exercising gifted will-power, move boldly without hesitation. The reward for such decisiveness is increased confidence in what the heart knows, which the mind does not feel

T.F. Hodge

#31. The one word that makes a good manager - decisiveness.

Lee Iacocca

#32. It's a sin."
"How do you know?"
"Because it feels like one," she managed to say.
He laughed quietly and pulled her hips farther toward him with a decisiveness that drew a little yelp from her.
"In that case ... I never sin by half measures.

Lisa Kleypas

#33. Clarity and decisiveness come from the willingness to slow down, to listen to and look at what's happening.

Pema Chodron

#34. It's essential you create a fiery will from within
harness that power of decisiveness
and choose to be your strongest self.

Karen Salmansohn

#35. There are six elements of gravitas critical to leadership: grace under fire, decisiveness, emotional intelligence and the ability to read a room, integrity and authenticity (people don't like fakes), a vision that inspires others, and a stellar reputation.

Sylvia Ann Hewlett

#36. [The small camera] taught me energy and decisiveness and immediacy ... The large camera taught me reverence, patience, and meditation.

Joel Meyerowitz

#37. The social repression and ideological repression of women began with depriving them of education, political decisiveness, mobility and essentially creating sexual slavery.

Frederick Lenz

#38. Cruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness.

Antonin Artaud

#39. In 'Growing Stronger,' I expose my most painful moments and open my heart, thoughts and person, so that my experiences can inspire alleviation, consolation and decisiveness.

Thalia

#40. If a business has to be told that it needs more focus, accountability and decisiveness, there is a bigger problem at hand.

Brad Garlinghouse

#41. In order to answer the question "Where am I going?" one needs to work for self-improvement, to possess decisiveness, to have a will to win and dedication to achieve the goal at all cost

Sunday Adelaja

#42. Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

Brian Tracy

#43. It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Theodore Roosevelt

#44. Somehow, the road rises up to meet you Patch, when you are ready.

Michele Jennae

#45. One thing I've found ... the road rarely rises up to meet you until you've begun walking.

Michele Jennae

#46. The pride Kaspar had seen in his father's eyes, despite the admonishing words about foolish acts, had branded the boy for life. 'Never be afraid.' He knew that no matter what, any choice must be made fearlessly, or else all would be lost.

Raymond E. Feist

#47. Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt

#48. Dare to keep moving when it is a must and dare to keep waiting when you have to, but note, you shall always keep waiting if you keep waiting and you shall always keep moving when you keep moving!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#49. If she was making the right and courageous decisions, he thought, she was nonetheless unhappy and somewhat resentful about doing it

David Halberstam

#50. Almost any decision is better than no decision
just keep moving.

Danielle LaPorte

#51. Wait and see the steps you should or should not have taken, and you shall understand patience and impatience better!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#52. Let me be strong, for to be anything else is to languish in the abyss of compromise and to descend to places of impoverishment so destitute that they will squelch my soul and crush my heart.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#53. Indecisiveness is the number one reason for failure. Lack of ability to make a decision in a timely manner causes most people to fail with their projects and plans. Identify this challenge and decide to no longer let it be a setback from your success.

Farshad Asl

#54. The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.

Theodore Roosevelt

#55. If forensic analysts confiscated your calendar and e-mail records and Web browsing history for the past six months, what would they conclude are your core priorities?

Chip Heath