Hard Decision Quotes:

Decision is the spark that ignites action. Until a decision is made, nothing happens.... Decision is the courageous facing of issues, knowing that if they are not faced, problems will remain forever unanswered.

- Wilferd Peterson

topic: Knowing, Issues, Decision, Making Tough Decisions, Decisions Made

A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.

- Rita Mae Brown

topic: Choices, Decision, Peacefulness, Making Tough Decisions, Wrong Decision

Shelving hard decisions is the least ethical course.

- Adrian Cadbury

topic: Decision, Ethics, Morality, Making Decisions, Tough Decisions

It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

- Jim Rohn

topic: Inspirational, Greatness, What Matters, Making Tough Decisions, Decisions Made

We have to confront the reality of our world, and make the hard decisions about which way we want to move forward.

- Edward Snowden

source: Source: www.nesta.org.uk

topic: Moving Forward, Reality, Our World, Hard Decision

You gotta know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away, know when to run.

- Kenny Rogers

source: FaceBook post by Kenny Rogers from May 04, 2016

topic: Change, Moving On, Running, Folding, Hard Decision

You cannot make progress without making decisions.

- Jim Rohn

topic: Decision, Progress, Making Decisions, Making Tough Decisions, Decisions Made

Your emotions are making it difficult for you to accept hard decisions.

- John C. Maxwell

source: John C. Maxwell (2014). “Good Leaders Ask Great Questions: Your Foundation for Successful Leadership”, p.166, Hachette UK

topic: Decision, Emotion, Accepting, Hard Decision

I'm a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife

- John Lithgow

topic: Fun, Father, Wife, Good Father, Hard Decision

Loving yourself means caring enough to make the hard decisions in your life.

- Jennifer Hudson

source: Jennifer Hudson (2012). “I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down”, p.93, Penguin

topic: Respect, Mean, Caring, Caring Enough, Hard Decision

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

topic: Eye, People, Decision, Make The Right Choice, Make The Right Decision

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

- Tony Robbins

topic: Motivational, Powerful, Real, Personal Power, Decisions Made

I know few significant questions of public policy which can safely be confided to computers. In the end, the hard decisions inescapably involve imponderables of intuition, prudence, and judgment.

- John F. Kennedy

topic: Decision, Intuition, Computer, Public Policy, Hard Decision

My number one rule in business, and in life, is to enjoy what you do. Running a business involves long hours and hard decisions; if you don't have the passion to keep you going, your business will more than likely fail. If you don't enjoy what you are doing, then you shouldn't be doing it.

- Richard Branson

topic: Running, Passion, Numbers, Long Hours, Running A Business

Exceptionally hard decisions can deplete your energy to the point at which you finally cave in. If you mentally crumble and degenerate into negative thinking, you'll magnify the problem to the point where it can haunt you.

- John C. Maxwell

topic: Leadership, Thinking, Decision, Negative Thinking, Hard Decision

My mom was on the United Way group that decides how to allocate the money and looks at all the different charities and makes the very hard decisions about where that pool of funds is going to go.

- Bill Gates

topic: Hard Decision, United Way

We have a lot of problems in this country. It's going to put pressure on the budget and we're going to have to make some hard decisions. But the decisions we make are to prioritize the middle class.

- David B. Axelrod

source: "Bill Clinton, campaign strategists, Colo. Senate debate". Meet the Press Netcast, www.nbcnews.com.

topic: Country, Decisions We Make, Class, Prioritize, Hard Decision

Manchester United breathe football. When I have to make hard decisions, I always listen to little boy inside me and what he wants. That little boy was screaming for United.

- Robin van Persie

topic: Football, Boys, Decision, Hard Decision

The role of government has never been to plan every detail or dictate every outcome. At its best, government has simply knocked away barriers to opportunity and laid the foundation for a better future. Our people -- with all their drive and ingenuity -- always end up building the rest. And if we can do that again -- if we can continue building that foundation and making those hard decisions on behalf of the next generation -- I have no doubt that we will leave our children the America that we all hope for.

- Barack Obama

topic: Children, Opportunity, Government, Role Of Government, No Doubt

I'm 100 percent sure this is it. I know that I'll never play in the NHL again. It's not a hard decision. I think the hardest thing is you get a little emotional talking about your family. I couldn't have played any longer than I did and I accomplished what I wanted to.

- Chris Chelios

topic: Emotional, Thinking, Talking, Hard Decision

That said, my kids are at home right now with my husband and I'm missing something important at my daughter's school which makes me feel sick inside. It's a lot of balance and a lot of really hard decision making.

- Reese Witherspoon

topic: Daughter, Mother, Husband, Hard Decision, Missing Something

Our world is facing a refugee crisis of a magnitude not seen since the Second World War. This presents us with great challenges and many hard decisions.

- Pope Francis

source: Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

topic: War, Refugee Crisis, Our World, Second World War, Hard Decision

I'll be damned if I apologize for the choices I've made. They were hard decisions, but I had good reasons for making them.

- Christine Feehan

source: Christine Feehan (2005). “Oceans of Fire”, p.123, Penguin

topic: Choices, Decision, Apologizing, Hard Decision

But deciding not to have children is a very, very hard decision for a woman to make: the atmosphere is worryingly inconducive to saying, "I choose not to," or "it all sounds a bit vile, tbh." We call these women "selfish" The inference of the word "childless" is negative: one of lack, and loss. We think of nonmothers as rangy lone wolves--rattling around, as dangerous as teenage boys or men. We make women feel that their narrative has ground to a halt in their thirities if they don't "finish things" properly and have children.

- Caitlin Moran

source: "How To Be a Woman". Book by Caitlin Moran, 2011.

topic: Mother, Children, Teenage, Lone Wolf, Hard Decision

My coming to England in this way is, as I realize, so unusual that nobody will easily understand it. I was confronted by a very hard decision. I do not think I could have arrived at my final choice unless I had continually kept before my eyes the vision of an endless line of children's coffins with weeping mothers behind them, both English and German, and another line of coffins of mothers with mourning children.

- Rudolf Hess

source: "Rudolf Hess: Prisoner of Peace". Book by Ilse Hess, 1982.

topic: Mother, Children, Eye, Hard Decision

If you go back to any period in India's history, all the hard decisions this country had to take were taken when the Congress was in power.

- P. Chidambaram

topic: Country, Taken, Decision, Hard Decision

Cast aside any column about two subjects. It means the pundit chickened out on the hard decision about what to write about that day.

- William Safire

topic: Writing, Mean, Two, Hard Decision

When you take on the position of president, you are committing yourself to, first and foremost, protecting the American people. You are accepting an institutional role that requires you to make hard decisions and hard choices, and as a consequence you have to take your moral sense and not put it aside.

- Barack Obama

source: Source: www.theatlantic.com

topic: People, Choices, Decision, Hard Decision

And it took to "The Devil Wears Prada" to play someone tough, who had to make hard decisions, who was running an organization, and sometimes that takes making tough decisions for a certain kind of man to empathize. That's the word - empathize. Feel the story through her. And that's the first time anybody has ever said that they felt that way.

- Meryl Streep

source: "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 6, 2012.

topic: Running, Men, Play, Making Tough Decisions, Prada

I'm just glad that on a budget like this I don't have to make any of those hard decisions because I feel it must be a real job to direct this, as there's so much going on.

- Matt Lucas

source: Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

topic: Jobs, Real, Decision, Real Jobs, Hard Decision

I really enjoy just being an actor. It's fun to be surprised by someone else's writing and to collaborate in creating a character and to leave all the hard decision-making to some other room full of suckers!

- Andy Daly

source: "'A Real Person Who Has Real Thoughts and Feelings'". Interview with Stephanie Palumbo, logger.believermag.com. February 29, 2016.

topic: Fun, Writing, Character, Hard Decision

The people at the label were great but at the end of the day our visions didn't match up and I knew I had to do it my way. The potential success that could come with signing with a major label didn't quite outweigh how important it was for me to make my music the way I knew it needed to be made. It was a hard decision to make, but I've never regretted it for a second and it's only become more clear to me after making and releasing Stairwells that it was the right one.

- Kina Grannis

source: "Rising Star: Kina Grannis". Interview, www.seventeen.com. July 14, 2010.

topic: People, Decision, Vision, Never Regret, Hard Decision

If you find that your organization can't make the hard decisions that Scrum demands, then high-risk, uncertain projects have very little probability of success in your organization.

- Jim Highsmith

topic: Organization, Decision, Risk, Scrum, Hard Decision

I think normally people think that they're afraid to die but I actually think people are more afraid to live. People are more afraid to make the choices that they want because they're very hard decisions to make in order to be happy. I think a lot of people are really afraid of that. It's easy to be in a band because you have a lot of things to hide behind so that's really not always living...that doesn't always constitute as living life the way you want. But at times you have to make decisions that sometimes hurt others in order to live.

- Gerard Way

topic: Hurt, Live Life, Thinking, Hard Decision

I am a great believer that you need passion and energy to create a truly successful business. Remember many new businesses do not make it and running a business will be a tough experience, involving long hours and many hard decisions - it helps to have that passion to keep you going.

- Richard Branson

topic: Running, Passion, Successful, Long Hours, Running A Business

The big problem in making the hard decisions has much to do with the personal and professional well-being of the person making the call.

- Chuck Martin

topic: Decision, Problem, Bigs, Hard Decision