Decisiveness Quotes

Better reap two days too soon than one day too late

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to burn his ships and cut all sources of retreat.

The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Ares [the god of war] hates those who hesitate.

Not to decide is to decide. Letting something go until it 'decides itself' is Life by Default. You don't want to live that way. So choose. Choose right now. Stop worrying about what you can 'lose' or how you can 'win' and just follow your joy. Where does your joy say you should go?

If what was supposed to have been destroyed in Paradise was destructible, then it was not decisive; but if it was indestructible, then we are living in a false belief.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

War’s very object is victory—not prolonged indecision.

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Once war is forced upon us, there is no alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end. War’s very object is victory-not prolonged indecision.

Donald Trump is as decisive as anybody I've ever met. I just don't see him running around asking various people in his inner circle, "What do you think I ought to do here?" I think he knows what he wants to do, and he seeks support for it or talks to people that oppose him and he may listen to them. But I don't think he's indecisive at all.

I'm not a little, shifty guy who likes to make moves. I like to be a straight-line guy, run over somebody if I can.

Lose this day loitering 'Twill be the same old story, Tomorrow and the next, Even more dilatory. Whatever you would do, Or dream of doing, begin it! Boldness has power, genius, and magic in it. Begin it now.

If you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna.

a vast deal may be done by those who dare to act.

If you see a snake, just kill it - don't appoint a committee on snakes.

One of Ivan the Terrible's mistakes was to overlook the five great feudal families. If he had annihilated those five families, there would definitely have been no Time of Troubles. But Ivan the Terrible would execute someone and then spend a long time repenting and praying. God got in his way in this matter. He ought to have been still more decisive!

I am very direct, to the point that I think I might make people uncomfortable! I do not know how not to be direct. I don't think there's time to waste.

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.