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The inability to make a decision has often been passed off as patience. – Author Unknown

Indecision is like a stepchild: if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water. – African Proverb

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. – Chinese Proverb

The difference is wide that sheets will not decide. – English Proverb

The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going. – Anon.

No answer is also an answer. – Proverb

All we see of someone at any moment is a snapshot of their life, there in riches or poverty, in joy or despair. Snapshots dont show the million decisions that led to tht moment. – Richard Bach

He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship. – Kenneth Baker

Decisiveness is often the art of timely cruelty. – Henri Becquerel

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over. – Aneurin Bevan

Where there is no counsel, the people perish; but in the multitude of counselors there is safety. Proverbs 29:18; 11:14 – Bible

Once you have made up your mind, stick to it; there is no longer any if or but. – Napoleon Bonaparte

It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

We are given one life, and the decision is our whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live. – Omar Bradley

Consequences flow from a justices interpretation in a direct and immediate way. A judicial decision respecting the incompatibility of Jim Crow with a constitutional guarantee of equality is not simply a contemplative exercise in defining the shape of a just society. It is an order – Justice William J. Brennan, Jr.

Most of our executives make very sound decisions. The trouble is many of them have turned out not to have been right. – Donald Bullock

Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away. – Samuel Butler

Shelving hard decisions is the least ethical course. – Adrian Cadbury

Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions. – James Callaghan

Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune? – Elias Canetti