Best decision & action Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Sin, also for those who don't have faith, exists when one goes against one's conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.”

Mean Facts Action Faces Evil Sin Decision Goodness Conscience Have Faith Our Actions Malice

Author:Pope Francis

“Indecision is fatal. It is better to make a wrong decision than build up a habit of indecision. If you're wallowing in indecision, you certainty can't act - and action is the basis of success”

Ifs Action Decision Habit Bases Certainty Indecision Wrong Decision Wallowing

Author:Marie Beynon Lyons Ray

“The tragedy of all political action is that some problems have no solution; none of the alternatives are intellectually consistent or morally uncompromising; and whatever decision is taken will harm somebody.”

Problem Action Political Decision Taken Politician Solutions Tragedy Harm Alternatives Consistent Uncompromising Political Action

Book:Intellectuals in politics: three biographical essays

Source: Intellectuals in politics: three biographical essays

“My child, it will be better for you if you accept my decisions without complaint. Do not ask me to defend my actions or to explain why one person is favored and another seems slighted. The answers to these questions go far beyond your comprehension.”

Ifs Children Persons Seems Action Asks Decision Answers Accepting Ask Me My Children Complaints Comprehension Slighted

Author:Thomas a Kempis

“We already know enough to begin to cope with all the major problems that are now threatening human life and much of the rest of life on earth. Our crisis is not a crisis of information; it is a crisis of decision of policy and action.”

Knows Humans Enough Problem Action Earth Decision Information Policy Majors Crisis Human Life Threatening Major Problems Rest Of Life

Author:George Wald

“Maturity is the ability to make a decision and stand by it. Immature people spend their lives exploring endless possibilities and then doing nothing. Action requires courage. Without courage, little is accomplished.”

People Littles Action Ability Decision Possibility Endless Maturity Accomplished Exploring Doing Nothing Immature Endless Possibilities Immature People

Author:Ann Landers

“You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.”

Action Change Leadership Decision Feet Strategy Useless Notable Adaptive Gnarly

Author:Charles de Gaulle

“Before I make an action, think about the consequences. ... Any decision I make is a heavy decision.”

Thinking Action Decision Consequence Heavy

Author:Gucci Mane

“Love is not words, it's actions, and love isn't feelings, it's a decision.”

Feelings Action Decision Love Is And Love

Author:Steven Furtick

“So if you don't like your life, change it. How would you change it? You decide. There's no action without first decision. Decision is the mother or the father of action, and action is what changes your life.”

Ifs Firsts Action Mother Father Decision Like You Life Changing Changing Your Life

Author:Tony Robbins

“Cumulatively small decisions, choices, actions, make a very big difference.”

Bigs Action Choices Differences Decision Small Decisions

Author:Jane Goodall

“I have finally accepted that there are consequences to every action. I earned them and they are rightfully mine. There is no time to make bad decisions. Every step is precious. The definition of living is mine.”

Action Decision Steps Mines Consequence Definitions Accepted Every Step Bad Decision

Author:Tarryn Fisher

“The Ultimate decision, the fastest decision there is, is ACTION!”

Action Decision Ultimate

Author:L. Ron Hubbard

“A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.”

Reason Action Decision Results Reactions Repeats Vague Mystic Infallible Another Time Omen

Book:This Business of Living: Diary: 1935-1950

Source: This Business of Living: Diary: 1935-1950

“Differences in political opinions are as unavoidable as, to a certain point, they may perhaps be necessary; but it is exceedingly to be regretted that subjects cannot be discussed with temper on the one hand, or decisions submitted to without having the motives, which led to them, improperly implicated on the other; and this regret borders on chagrin when we find that men of abilities, zealous patriots, having the same general objects in view, and the same upright intentions to prosecute them, will not exercise more charity in deciding on the opinions and actions of one another.”

Source: The real George Washington

“I think one must take responsibility for one's actions and one's decisions. But one should never take -- one should never assume that everything that happens for the good is achieved by one's self alone.”

Thinking Should Self Happens Action Decision Responsibility Assuming Taking Responsibility Never Assume

Author:Aung San Suu Kyi

“To play chess on a truly high level requires a constant stream of exact, informed decisions, made in real time and under pressure from your opponent. What's more, it requires a synthesis of some very different virtues, all of which are necessary to good decisions: calculatioñ, creativity and a desire for results. If you ask a Grandmaster, an artist and a computer scientist what makes a good chess player, you'll get a glimpse of these different strengths in action.”

Source: How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom

“If the subjectivist view hold true, thinking cannot be of any help in determining the desirability of any goal in itself. The acceptability of ideals, the criteria for our actions and beliefs, the leading principles of ethics and politics, all our ultimate decisions are made to depend upon factors other than reason. They are supposed to be matters of choice and predilection, and it has become meaningless to speak of truth in making practical, moral or esthetic decisions.”

“In 1985, I was living with my sister in Virginia, and since I was still in high school, I worked at McDonald's to save money to get an abortion. It sounds really terrible, but it was the best decision I ever made. It was the first time I took responsibility for my actions. I messed up, had sex without contraception, and got pregnant at 15.”

“How can you develop a self-concept linked to your untapped potential? First, you can decide on the kind of life you would like to lead in ten or fifteen years. This will give you a standard for making decisions about current activities and will reduce the inclination to compare yourself unfavorably to others. Learn to ask, "How would I handle this situation were I the person I hope to become?" And then take action in line with your vision.”

“If the president comes forward with a strong, qualified nominee, if he, you know, addresses the agenda, if he takes actions, including dealing with perhaps some personnel decisions, I think that people will show that he is moving forward and doing the right thing for our country.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Country Shows Action Moving Strong President Decision Including Moving Forward Our Country Right Thing Addresses Agendas Qualified Doing The Right Thing Personnel

Author:Trent Lott

“I made a big conscious decision in my life when I was writing all these big action movies and doing different kind of fare but very proud of it, I was finding myself less and less passionate about doing it.”

Writing Kind Made Different Bigs Action Decision Proud Findings Conscious Passionate Different Kinds Action Movie Finding Myself

Author:Ric Roman Waugh

“The ancestor of every destructive action, every destructive decision, is a negative thought.”

Action Decision Negative Destructive Ancestor Negative Thoughts

Book:Words to Live By: Short Readings of Daily Wisdom

Source: Words to Live By: Short Readings of Daily Wisdom

“Like sand on the beach, the brain bears the footprints of the decisions we have made, the skills we have learned, the actions we have taken.”

Made Action Decision Brain Taken Bears Skills Beach Sand Footprint

Book:Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain: How a New Science Reveals Our Extraordinary Potential to Transform Ourselves

Source: Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain: How a New Science Reveals Our Extraordinary Potential to Transform Ourselves

“The essence of the phenomenon of gambling is decision making. The act of making a decision consists of selecting one course of action, or strategy, from among the set of admissible strategies.”

Action Courses Decision Essence Strategy Decision Making Gambling Phenomenon

Author:Richard Arnold Epstein

“In 'Tintin,' it's like a live-action role. You're living and breathing and making decisions for that character from page 1 to page 120, the whole emotional arc. In an animated movie, it's a committee decision. There are 50 people creating that character. You're responsible for a small part.”

People Whole Character Action Decision Roles Emotional Creating Pages Responsible Breathing Committees Animated Arcs Small Parts Making Decisions Animated Movies

Author:Andy Serkis

“I put all the blame legally and morally on the actions of the terrorist, but America's secular and anti-Christian environment left us open to our Lord's decision not to protect. When a nation deserts God and expels God from the culture ... the result is not good.”

Humor Action Christian America Culture Left Nations Religious Decision Results Lord Environment Protect Blame Positive Atheism Terrorist Desert Secular Our Lord Anti Christian

Author:Jerry Falwell

“We had very good discussions on current security challenges and NATO's continued adaptation to meet them. Canada is a committed ally and a capable contributor to international security. We appreciate your quick decision to deploy forces, planes and ships to strengthen our collective defence in view of Russia's aggressive actions in Ukraine, as well as your contribution to the international anti-ISIL coalition. Canada plays a major part in our decision-making and helps keep the vital bond between Europe and North America strong.”

“In the 17 years since I graduated from this great College of Law, I have seen that, for many of us, it becomes increasingly easy to rationalize our actions in the name of expediency when facing difficult decisions-to choose a path where the ends justify the means. I want to ask you to challenge Machiavelli's philosophy. I want to humbly suggest that you be the guardians of a more complicated truth: that the means are as important-and sometimes even more important-than the ends.”

“Discipleship never consists in this or that specific action: it is always a decision, either for or against Jesus Christ.”

Action Jesus Christ Decision Jesus Christ Discipleship

Book:The Cost of Discipleship

Source: The Cost of Discipleship

“The whole enterprise of teaching managers is steeped in the ethic of data-driven analytical support. The problem is, the data is only available about the past. So the way weve taught managers to make decisions and consultants to analyze problems condemns them to taking action when its too late.”

Way Whole Problem Action Past Decision Support Teaching Taught Late Ethics Available Driven Managers Data Enterprise Too Late Taking Action Consultants

Author:Clayton Christensen

“Let no one say that taking action is hard. Action is aided by courage, by the moment, by impulse, and the hardest thing in the world is making a decision.”

World Hard Moments Action Decision Courage Hardest Impulse Hardest Thing Taking Action

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“Mental events such as perceivings, rememberings, decisions, and actions resist capture in the net of physical theory.”

Action Remember Decision Events Theory Capture

Book:Essays on Actions and Events: Philosophical Essays

Source: Essays on Actions and Events: Philosophical Essays

“Man is born as a freak of nature, being within nature and yet transcending it. He has to find principles of action and decision-making which replace the principles of instincts.”

Men Action Born Decision Principles Instinct Decision Making Freak Transcending

Book:The Revolution of Hope

Source: The Revolution of Hope

“The Fuhrer alone is the present and future German reality and its law. Learn to know ever more deeply: from now on every single thing demands decision, and every action responsibility.”

Knows Reality Action Law Decision Responsibility Demand

Author:Martin Heidegger

“I do have more directorial control over animation, because it's like trial and error: If something doesn't work, you can always go back and change certain things. Whereas in live action, every day is a challenge, and you have to make decisions on an hourly basis. So in live action I have more freedom as a director, but in animation, I have more control over the final product.”

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Author:Mamoru Oshii

“Inspiration gives you a desire. Decision makes it an intention. Action makes it real.”

Inspirational Giving Real Inspiration Action Desire Decision Intention

Author:Joe Vitale

“I can't accept collective responsibility for the decision to commit Britain now to military action in Iraq without international agreement or domestic support.”

I Can Action Decision Responsibility Accepting Support Military International Iraq Commit Britain Collectives Agreement Military Action Collective Responsibility

Author:Robin Cook

“Because he treats the world as rather empty and ignores the interrelatedness of all things (so stupefying to thought and action), administrative man can make decisions with relatively simple rules of thumb that do not make impossible demands upon his capacity for thought.”

Men World Action Simple Decision Impossible Demand Capacity All Things Empty Treats Thumbs Administrative Thoughts And Actions Interrelatedness

Author:Herbert Simon

“Draw your line in the sand. Make your decision now and start taking action to really live your dream. By not taking bold steps to live your dream, not only are you missing out on fully living, but the world is missing out on the greatness you have to offer. Be bold!”

“God's is the causality at the level of our being, and therefore the roots of our freedom. Ours in causality is determinative of what kind of being we're going to be through our free choices, what kind of action we are going to do through our decisions.”

Kind Action Choices Decision Levels Roots Causality Free Choice

Author:Francis George

“Visualizing, creative mental picturing, is no more difficult than what you do when you remember some scene out of the past, or worry about the future. Acting out new action patterns is no more difficult than deciding, then following through on tying your shoes in a new and different manner each morning, instead of continuing to tie them in your old habitual way, without thought or decision.”

Source: Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life

“A good rule in organizational analysis is that no meeting of the minds is really reached until we talk of specific actions or decisions. We can talk of who is responsible for budgets, or inventory, or quality, but little is settled. It is only when we get down to the action words-measure, compute, prepare, check, endorse, recommend, approve-that we can make clear who is to do what.”

Mind Littles Action Decision Quality Clear Responsible Meetings Checks Budgets Analysis Organizational Inventory

Book:Managerial breakthrough: a new concept of the manager's job

Source: Managerial breakthrough: a new concept of the manager's job

“I think there are three types of actors. There are the ones that do the ego thing, which is "I'm never going to look bad in a movie, ever." This is mostly the action film dudes, like, "Nah, hell no. He ain't punchin' me! I'd whoop his ass!" Then you've got the activist type who bases their decisions in the development of a character on what it symbolizes to society - what the ethical code is. And then the third type is a true thespian who doesn't give a flying rat's ass what it is as long as it's deep, powerful, and painful, and they will dive in headfirst. I really respect those people.”

“Every adviser told me to study the company, learn the business for the first 90 days and don't make any decisions. I couldn't resist seeing broken things and immediately taking action.”

Firsts Action Decision Company Study Seeing Broken Taking Action Adviser Broken Things

Author:Marcelo Claure

“When we look at the astonishing material achievements of the West. we see these things as the result, not of compulsion or government action or the superior wisdom of a few, but of that system of competition and free enterprise, rewarding success and penalising failure, which enables every individual to participate by his private decisions in shaping the future of his society.”

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Author:Enoch Powell

“Any time you do something, you make decisions about time and space. I wanted those decisions to be out of my hands. I could be dragged, carried along by another person, I could be a receiver. I could be the agent of the overall scheme, but I didn't want to be the agent of the particular action. I could make the ultimate decision that my space is going to change now, but I don't know where it's going to go.”

Knows Want Persons Hands Action Wanted Space Decision Particular Ultimate Agents Schemes Time And Space Receiver My Space

Author:Vito Acconci

“Unconscious decisions for action go on constantly inside the head.”

Action Decision Goes On Unconscious

Author:Robert E. Ornstein

“When we look at films, we usually see only the action. Yet it is the decision to act that helps us understand how the character's mind works.”

Mind Looks Character Helping Action Film Decision

Author:Linda Seger

“How often has Hitler said to me: 'I know that my decision or action is correct. I cannot explain at the moment why, but I feel that it is right and the future will prove it so'.”

Knows Feels Said Moments Action Decision Prove Prove It

Author:Rudolf Hess

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