Quotes about Decision-making

There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.

Every good choice makes the next one easier and more delightful.

My job was simply to follow His leading one step at a time, holding every decision up to Him in prayer.

We didn't know, of course, the political views of all these people. But—and here I felt a strange leaping of my heart—God did! My job was simply to follow His leading one step at a time, holding every decision up to Him in prayer. I knew I was not clever or subtle or sophisticated; if the Beje was becoming a meeting place for need and supply, it was through some strategy far higher than mine. A

The way we respond to challenges determines the stories we'll tell one day. Your decision to trust God in life's storms may be one of the best ongoing choices you ever make.

We must discern what God calls us to accomplish rather than mindlessly adding on everything presented to us.

Just because opportunities present themselves doesn't mean you should accept every one of them. It's not realistic, and it's also not wise.

Feelings are much like waves. We can't stop them from coming, but we can choose which one to surf.

It's remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.

You shut the door, you tell the boss exactly what you think. But when the door opens, the job of the vice president is to stand right next to the president and implement the policy that he's decided. And I'm prepared to do that.

Secretary of state is far superior to vice president, because it's involved in continuously solving problems and making policy and not being on standby.

Joy, I realized, isn't so much a circumstance you find yourself in but a choice you make.