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If you think that it’s easy to sleet through ice but difficult to make a decision, then you have come to the right place. The decisions we make decides the course of our life. Every day we are hurled with numerous instances where we need to asses a situation, make a choice between what is right and what is wrong, and take decisions. If you find it difficult to take decisions in life, then these famous conclusion quotations and sayings should lift the burden off your shoulder and make the action of choosing or deciding easier for you.

It's true that most American citizens think of themselves as living in a democratic country. But when was the last time that any Americans actually sat down and came to a collective decision? Maybe if they are ordering pizzas, but basically never.

Country Time
David Graeber
Omar Khayyam

When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.

Present Remembrance Thinking Understanding
Omar Khayyam
Osama bin Laden

Your security is not in the hands of Kerry, Bush or al-Qaida. Your security is in your own hands.

Inspiration Meaningful Motivation Advice
Osama bin Laden
Samuel Alito

I think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case if the court made a decision based on its perception of public opinion.

Opinion Perception
Samuel Alito
Noam Chomsky

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

Science Action
Noam Chomsky
John Mason Brown

Our decision was that it was beyond the scope of something that was reasonable.

Reason
John Mason Brown

You meet Rush at a certain point in his life where he's made a decision that he's going to not live by the moral code of being a doctor. He's decided to disengage with that side of his life for various reasons, which we find out through the first season.

Life Doctor
Tom Ellis

My parents have been very supportive, in fact, it was my mother who identified that what I was going through was actually depression. My family and friends never let me feel as if something was wrong with me. They made me feel that what I was going through was okay. They supported my decision to take medication for depression.

Family
Deepika Padukone
Halsey

At the end of the day, every decision I make about my music is about creating a collective.

Music
Halsey
Mary Steenburgen

I'd already made the decision before I'd even read it-just because it was John Sayles. Then when I read it, the themes were actually themes that have been a big part of my life.

Life
Mary Steenburgen
David Lloyd George

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

Meaningful Advice Opinion Thinking
David Lloyd George

I think the most significant change in my life is the decision to do a series. An hourlong dramatic television series on a broadcast network swallows you and chews you up and refuses to spit you out. You're making a decision that's going to be a profound and significant impact on the practical aspects of your life.

Life Change
James Spader

For me, romance isn't an over-the-top act. It's someone offering to help and to support me. Or if that person thinks I'm making the wrong decision, he'll tell me. I want him to be honest, because being that honest takes a lot of guts.

Support
Thora Birch
Kate Walsh

I second-guess myself all the time. I make a decision and then wonder if I made the wrong choice.

Time
Kate Walsh
Isla Fisher

I love marriage. I think it's a wonderful institution and it's the most important decision you make.

Love Marriage
Isla Fisher
Justin Trudeau

Openness, respect, integrity - these are principles that need to underpin pretty much every other decision that you make.

Respect Truthfulness
Justin Trudeau
Prince William

I think it's very important that you make your own decision about what you are. Therefore you're responsible for your actions, so you don't blame other people.

People
Prince William

On September 11, 2001, we thought we were going to be attacked many, many times between then and now. We haven't been. I believe we had a president who made the right decision at the right time... to put us on offense against terrorists.

Time
Rudy Giuliani
Jacinda Ardern

It is a woman's decision about when they choose to have children, and it should not predetermine whether or not they are given a job or have job opportunities.

Jobs Children
Jacinda Ardern
Harry S. Truman

The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.

Greatness
Harry S. Truman
Walter Scott

If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.

Advice Opinion Thinking Time
Walter Scott

Originalism is sort of subspecies of textualism. Textualism means you are governed by the text. That's the only thing that is relevant to your decision, not whether the outcome is desirable, not whether legislative history says this or that. But the text of the statute.

History
Antonin Scalia
Prince Philip

It would have been very easy to play to the gallery, but I took a conscious decision not to do that. Safer not to be too popular. You can't fall too far.

Fall
Prince Philip
Anthony Kennedy

You have plaintiffs attorneys, you have defense attorneys. So there is no unified bar that will protect a particular judge who has made a courageous decision that's unpopular.

Anthony Kennedy
Angela Merkel

For me, it is always important that I go through all the possible options for a decision.

Angela Merkel
Sun Tzu

The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.

Quality
Sun Tzu
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

Life Being Yourself People Self-Centeredness
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Charlize Theron

And I do think that earlier in my career, I did make a very conscious decision to make sure that I was doing work that wasn't necessarily given to me, and that people didn't necessarily think that I would be able to do.

People Work
Charlize Theron

I was a guy who needed to go to class, because I had some raw talent that I thought was identifiable, when I finally made a decision to be an actor. And yet I wanted to learn how to really do the stuff. You know, 'How do I get to be a serious actor?'

Talent
Jon Voight
Mia Hamm

Follow your heart and make it your decision.

Heart
Mia Hamm
Theodore Roosevelt

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

Motivation Ability Nothing Right
Theodore Roosevelt

My parents had us in church every Sunday, every Wednesday. It was more of a tradition at that point; I didn't have a personal relationship with the Lord until I went to the altar call one Sunday, and the youth pastor told us to make a decision for ourselves.

Youth
Stephen Curry

Being on a Paul Thomas Anderson film, the best decision an actor can make is to listen to Paul Thomas Anderson. Because he's probably not going to steer anyone in the wrong direction. I would always say go with your gut on any other movie set, but with Paul, I would say go with Paul's gut.

Best
Rami Malek
Pranab Mukherjee

Indian president does not determine policy. Here President is not the policy maker. In the name of the president, the cabinet takes the policy decision.

Pranab Mukherjee
Isaac Asimov

No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

World
Isaac Asimov
Giancarlo Esposito

People aren't able to make decisions anymore because there's too many choices within that decision.

People
Giancarlo Esposito

Anybody can have this body if you do enough sit-ups and you just make a decision that 'Every day, I'm going to work out.' There are some days that I just don't feel like doing it, and I don't. But more often than not I get up and I get on the treadmill that I want to shoot and just do it. The first 20 minutes are the hardest.

Work
Valerie Bertinelli
Harry S. Truman

All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.

Life Time
Harry S. Truman
Daniel Craig

There's a conscious decision to everything I do.

Daniel Craig

If the case is close, 5-4, and let's say you are on the side that prevailed with the majority, there are not a lot of high-fives and back slaps. There is a moment of quiet, a moment of respect, maybe even sometimes awe in the process. We realize that one of us is going to have to write out a decision which teaches and gives reasons for what we do.

Respect
Anthony Kennedy
Peyton Manning

My dad told us up front, 'Guys, if you want to play sports, go ahead, but it's your decision.'

Sports
Peyton Manning
Cate Blanchett

For 'Blue Jasmine,' I made a decision not to wear any make up in the last shot of the film, as I felt like she had such a mask on - I thought it would be a good idea to leave her with nothing and become completely transparent.

Good
Cate Blanchett

We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision.

World
C. S. Lewis
Brian Tracy

Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.

Brian Tracy
H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

Life Happiness
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Herman Cain

One right decision doth not a great president make.

Greatness Right
Herman Cain
Ruth Bader Ginsburg

If there was one decision I would overrule, it would be 'Citizens United.' I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

Money Democracy
Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I was always pushed to do that much more, and in the long run that made me more of an MMA fighter. My mom always told me that if I let it go to the judges, I'd lost. There was no way I was going to win a decision, so I had to find ways to finish the fight fast.

Ronda Rousey
Stevie Nicks

I made a conscious decision that I was not going to have children. I didn't want others raising them, and looking after them myself would get in the way of being a musician and writer.

Children
Stevie Nicks
Woody Allen

In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.

Wives Boss
Woody Allen

With each decision of ours that takes from the People a question properly left to them - with each decision that is unabashedly based not on law, but on the 'reasoned judgment' of a bare majority of this Court - we move one step closer to being reminded of our impotence.

People Law
Antonin Scalia

I'm all about living however you want, but if you make the decision to get married and have children, then you have an obligation to raise them in an environment that isn't going to ruin them, warp their perception of the world, or close doors for them.

World
Dan Bilzerian
Kourtney Kardashian

People always have something to say about how long is too long or not long enough to breastfeed. I think this is such a personal decision that it can only be made between each baby and his or her mommy.

People
Kourtney Kardashian
Sandra Day O'Connor

I don't know how a judge can concentrate on being fair and impartial when he or she is faced with possible jail time for making a decision that others deem incorrect.

Time
Sandra Day O'Connor
Jon Voight

There's something real in women's intuition. It's an accurate signpost for decision making, but it usually bumps up against man's logic. So we have to put ego aside and listen to them.

Women
Jon Voight

The most important decision I've made in business? The choices of people I have around me. When I first started I brought everybody with me, my homies from the neighborhood, criminals. I just said, 'Come on everybody, we made it.' Then I had to realize we didn't make it. I made it.

People Business
Snoop Dogg

Apparently a great many people have forgotten that the framers of our Constitution went to such great effort to create an independent judicial branch that would not be subject to retaliation by either the executive branch or the legislative branch because of some decision made by those judges.

Greatness People Effort
Sandra Day O'Connor

Some things are very low profile, but if they excite me creatively, I accept them. Sometimes there are high-profile projects, and you have to do it. We all have human limitations. It is a painful decision to turn things down. Even accepting 'Slumdog Millionaire' was a decision that I had to sacrifice another project.

Sacrifice
A. R. Rahman
Keira Knightley

I made a conscious decision to live my life the best way I could and that meant to publicise myself as little as possible.

Life
Keira Knightley
David Beckham

I don't regret the decision to retire. My body was losing its edge. I was taking longer to recover from injuries. You have to get out at some point.

Body
David Beckham
Lewis Hamilton

Every person I have met who has gone vegan says it is the best decision they have ever made.

Best
Lewis Hamilton
Olivia Wilde

As you get older, you start to really ask questions like, 'Is this the road I should be walking down?,' because every decision seems more final, as you get older.

Walking
Olivia Wilde
Cate Blanchett

When something is a vocation, you don't really make a decision about it.

Cate Blanchett
Plato

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

Knowledge Good
Plato
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

Universe
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Susan Wojcicki

Even though it was a start-up with fewer than 20 people, and I was pregnant with my first child, the best decision I've ever made was to join Google in 1999. Worst decision? Deciding to get a puppy and a bunny right when the baby came.

Best People
Susan Wojcicki
Jada Pinkett Smith

Good mothers make all kinds of choices. Making a decision that might sound selfish does not make a woman a bad mother.

Good
Jada Pinkett Smith
Brian Tracy

Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

Women
Brian Tracy
Indira Gandhi

My son had nothing to do with policy or decision making, nor did I discuss the elections or any other matter with him.

Nothing
Indira Gandhi
Peter Drucker

Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake.

Peter Drucker
Rita Mae Brown

A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.

Rita Mae Brown
Reese Witherspoon

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.

Home Daughters
Reese Witherspoon

I had to make a major decision with myself because I just don't think you can do both: try to have a baby career and raise it and have a baby baby and raise it. And to try to do justice to either one. It was a very conscious decision on my part not to have children - which I have never regretted.

Justice
Betty White
Denis Waitley

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Parenting Children
Denis Waitley
Jimmy Carter

My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exception.

Women
Jimmy Carter
Peter Drucker

Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information.

Information Knowledge
Peter Drucker
Dick Cheney

Had the decision belonged to Senator Kerry, Saddam hussein would still be in power today in Iraq. In fact, Saddam Hussein would almost certainly still be in control of Kuwait.

Power Control
Dick Cheney
Eleanor Roosevelt

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

Eleanor Roosevelt

My father always wanted to be 'Col-bear.' He lived in the same town as his father, and his father didn't like the idea of the name with the French pronunciation. So my father said to us, 'Do what you want. You're not going to offend anybody.' And he was dead long before I made my decision.

Stephen Colbert
Kamala Harris

I understood that with the swipe of my pen as a prosecutor, I would have the decision in my pen to make a decision about someone's life.

Life
Kamala Harris
Jada Pinkett Smith

It's very important to prioritize. I know, for me, my family comes first. That makes every decision very easy.

Family
Jada Pinkett Smith
Kourtney Kardashian

I think it's important to talk to my sisters when I have a big decision to make.

Kourtney Kardashian
Mila Kunis

I stand by every movie that I did. I don't regret any decision I made.

Mila Kunis
Audrey Hepburn

I had to make a choice at one point in my life, of missing films or missing my children. It was a very easy decision to make because I missed my children so very much.

Life Children
Audrey Hepburn
Jacinda Ardern

A lot of women in New Zealand feel like they have to make a choice between having babies and having a career or continuing their career. So is that a decision you feel you have to make or that you feel you've already made?

Women
Jacinda Ardern
Justin Hartley

I became interested in 'Smallville' when 'Aquaman' was not picked up and my mortgage was due. Kidding. The real reason is that it was an easy decision.

Reason
Justin Hartley
Christian Bale

The point of having a director is that they make the final decision; it's their point of view, they set the rhythm and they make the final decisions.

Christian Bale
Nick Foles

Getting through the reads in an efficient manner. I don't want to stay on receivers too long to where a bad decision is made.

Nick Foles
Anurag Kashyap

It is an entirely selfish decision to turn producer because I want my kind of cinema to last and flourish, and helping young filmmakers make those kind of films is the best way to do it.

Best
Anurag Kashyap

I just think, as women, we have to give ourselves room to be individuals. So when a woman makes a decision for herself, we as women shouldn't set those hardcore boundaries for another woman. Just like we don't want men setting hardcore boundaries for us.

Men Women
Jada Pinkett Smith
Hilary Duff

I'm pretty good at thinking about everything - all of my consequences - before I make a decision, and I think about everything that's going to happen because of that decision. I'm a Libra, and I'm very strategic.

Good Thinking
Hilary Duff
George W. Bush

Every nation in every region now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.

Nation
George W. Bush
Jerry Seinfeld

Men like a ref decision because they just want to get back to the game.

Men
Jerry Seinfeld
Victor Hugo

Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

Life Style
Victor Hugo
Tucker Carlson

You want people with different life experiences as a backstop against bad decision.

Life People
Tucker Carlson

I am growing handsome very fast indeed! I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my 17th year. I don't doubt that I shall have perfect crowds of admirers at that age. Then how I shall delight to make them await my bidding, and with what delight shall I witness their suspense while I make my final decision.

Age
Emily Dickinson
Tony Blair

You know, one of the things I've learnt since coming out of office is how much easier it is to give the advice than take the decision. I mean, you know, it's tough.

Advice
Tony Blair
Kamala Harris

I'll be judged on the body of work and not the popularity of any one decision.

Body Work
Kamala Harris

Obviously, as you grow up, no one's ever 100 percent proud of every decision that they've made, and that's OK. I think as long as you learn from your mistakes and don't make them over and over again, you're on the right path.

Kim Kardashian
Annie Leibovitz

I personally made a decision many years ago that I wanted to crawl into portraiture because it had a lot of latitude.

Annie Leibovitz