1) Quick decisions are unsafe decisions. -Sophocles
2) The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you cannot accept regret. -Henri Frederic Amiel
3) When, against one’s will, one is high pressured into making a hurried decision, the best answer is always No, because No is more easily changed to Yes, than Yes is changed to No. -Charles E. Nielson
4) Nothing can be more destructive to vigor of action than protracted, anxious fluctuation, through resolutions adopted, rejected, resumed, and suspended, and nothing causes a greater expense of feeling. A man without decision can never be said to belong to himself; he is as a wave of the sea, or a feather in the air which every breeze blows about as it listeth. -John Foster
5) The percentage of mistakes in quick decisions is no greater than in long-drawn-out vacillations, and the effect of decisiveness itself makes things go and creates confidence. -Anne O’Hare McCormick
6) I have to be wrong a certain number of times in order to be right a certain number of times. However, in order to be either, I must first make a decision. -Frank N. Giampietro
7) Decision is a sharp knife that cuts clean and straight; indecision, a dull one that hacks and tears and leaves ragged edges behind it. -Gordon Graham
8) I hate to see things done by halves. If it be right, do it boldly; if it be wrong leave it undone. -Gilpin
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2) The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you cannot accept regret. -Henri Frederic Amiel
3) When, against one’s will, one is high pressured into making a hurried decision, the best answer is always No, because No is more easily changed to Yes, than Yes is changed to No. -Charles E. Nielson
4) Nothing can be more destructive to vigor of action than protracted, anxious fluctuation, through resolutions adopted, rejected, resumed, and suspended, and nothing causes a greater expense of feeling. A man without decision can never be said to belong to himself; he is as a wave of the sea, or a feather in the air which every breeze blows about as it listeth. -John Foster
5) The percentage of mistakes in quick decisions is no greater than in long-drawn-out vacillations, and the effect of decisiveness itself makes things go and creates confidence. -Anne O’Hare McCormick
6) I have to be wrong a certain number of times in order to be right a certain number of times. However, in order to be either, I must first make a decision. -Frank N. Giampietro
7) Decision is a sharp knife that cuts clean and straight; indecision, a dull one that hacks and tears and leaves ragged edges behind it. -Gordon Graham
8) I hate to see things done by halves. If it be right, do it boldly; if it be wrong leave it undone. -Gilpin