Some decisions arrive with fanfare, but many of the most important ones come quietly, like a fork in the road at dawn. We choose, we step forward, and only later do we understand how much was changed by that one turning. As Robert Frost wrote in The Road Not Taken,
“I shall be telling this with a sigh / Somewhere ages and ages hence: / Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, / I took the one less traveled by, / And that has made all the difference.”
In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious. ~ Blaise Pascal
No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently. ~ Agnes de Mille
At some point your heart will tell itself what to do. ~ Ajahn Chah
Make every decision as if you owned the company. ~ Robert Townsend, 1001 Ways to Take Initiative at Work
Every bad decision I’ve made has been based on money. ~ Eddie Murphy
If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking. ~ George Patton
You know how it is. You’re 21 or 22, and you make some decisions, then, whish, you’re 70. ~ Thornton Wilder
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing. ~ Theodore Roosevelt
When you total up all that you’ve done and experienced, and where you are right now, you have to concede that most of the decisions in your life were yours. ~ Jeff Davidson, Reinventing Yourself
I’m plagued with indecision in my life. I can’t figure out what to order in a restaurant. ~ Chuck Close
Be willing to make decisions. That’s the most important quality in a good leader. Don’t fall victim to what I call the ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome. ~ T. Boone Pickens
Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
More than anything else, I believe it’s our decisions, not the conditions of our lives, that determine our destiny. ~ Anthony Robbins
A decision made at night may be changed in the morning. ~ Sansan Saying