Life is just a series of trying to make up your mind.
- Timothy Fuller

Here’s a rule I recommend. Never practice two vices at once.
- Tallulah Bankhead

Choices are the hinges of destiny.
- Edwin Markham

She knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit, rather than the brain, was a fatal flaw, the seed of death.
- Anne Perry

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than to polish.
- Anne Bradstreet

Decisions, particularly important ones, have always made me sleepy, perhaps because I know that I will have to make them by instinct, and thinking things out is only what other people tell me I should do.
- Lillian Hellman

To know just what has do be done, then to do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.
- William Osier

There are times when a battle decides everything, and there are times when the most insignificant thing can decide the outcome of a battle.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

We don’t have enough time to premeditate all our actions.
- Vauvenargues

Decide which is the line of conduct that presents the fewest drawbacks and then follow it out as being the best one, because one never finds anything perfectly pure and unmixed, or exempt from danger.
- Niccolo Machiavelli

I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.
- Joyce Brothers

Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.
- Jane Austen

You wouldn’t want to be caught wearing cheap perfume, would you? Then why do you want to wear cheap perfume on your conduct?
- Margaret Culkin Banning

You are the one who must choose your place.
- James Lane Allen

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
- Samuel Butler

You cannot sell the cow and sup the milk.
- Anonymous

Somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

We spend our days in deliberating, and we end them without coming to any resolve.
- L’Estrange

How dangerous can false reasoning prove!
- Sophocles

It doesn’t matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.
- Jim Rohn

The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
- David Russell

The inability to make a decision has often been passed off as patience.
- Author Unknown

Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.
- Peter Drucker

When confronted with two courses of action I jot down on a piece of paper all the arguments in favor of each one, then on the opposite side I write the arguments against each one. Then by weighing the arguments pro and con and cancelling them out, one against the other, I take the course indicated by what remains.
- Benjamin Franklin

Alternatives, and particularly desirable alternatives, grow only on imaginary trees.
- Saul Bellow

A door must either be shut or open.
- Anonymous

Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.
- William Feather

The tendency of modern science is to reduce proof to absurdity by continually reducing absurdity to proof.
- Samuel Butler

When one bases his life on principle, 99 percent of his decisions are already made.
- Author Unknown

Choice of attention is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.
- W. H. Auden