Quotes about Decision-making

While we do control our choice of action, we cannot control the consequences of our choices.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

Look at the word responsibility—"response-ability"—the ability to choose your response.

But you have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage—pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically—to say "no" to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger "yes" burning inside. The enemy of the "best" is often the "good.

The key is to not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

Do what is important rather than what is urgent.

Management is a bottom line focus: How can I best accomplish certain things? Leadership deals with the top line: What are the things I want to accomplish? In the words of both Peter Drucker and Warren Bennis, "Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things." Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall. You

I am busy because I am lazy. I indolently let others decide what I will do instead of resolutely deciding myself. It was a favorite theme of C. S. Lewis that only lazy people work hard. By lazily abdicating the essential work of deciding and directing, establishing values and setting goals, other people do it for us.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.

In the end, as a leader, you are always going to get a combination of two things: what you create and what you allow.

No one's stuck anywhere unless they choose to be. The Lord God guides those who are moving forward.