Basically, I’m a poor decision-maker . Many times, I would like to say “YES” to whatever people say/ask/request and demand. The simple reason is: I don’t know how to say NO.

So mY friends always used to advice me  - If you don’t know how to say NO – then you don’t know how to LIVE. Hmm.. sounds interesting.

Time to change !! I am kind of guy who needs inputs to do anything.This time –  in the form of Inspirational Quotes. While googling for the same, i found these Decision making quotes from famous people and feel worth to share.

Quotes on Decision Making

The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes. - Tony Blair

Sometimes you make the right decision, sometimes you make the decision right. - Dr Phil

My job is a job to make decisions. I’m a decision.. if the job description were, what do you do.. it’s decision maker. - George Bushism

There are only two words that will always lead you to success. Those words are yes and no. Undoubtedly, you’ve mastered saying yes. So start practicing saying no. Your goals depend on it! - Jack Canfield

Success depends on getting good at saying no without feeling guilty. You cannot get ahead with your own goals if you are always saying yes to someone else’s projects. You can only get ahead with your desired lifestyle if you are focused on the things that will produce that lifestyle. - Jack Canfield

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice. - Stephen Covey

Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level. - Peter Drucker

What is it that you like doing? If you don’t like it, get out of it, because you’ll be lousy at it. You don’t have to stay with a job for the rest of your life, because if you don’t like it you’ll never be successful in it. - Lee Iacocca

You have to have doubts. I have collaborators I work with. I listen and then I decide. That’s how it works. - Giorgio Armani

Remember, a real decision is measured by the fact that you’ve taken new action. If there’s no action, you haven’t truly decided. - Anthony Robbins

Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for – because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything - Peter Marshall

Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days… What you can do or think you can do, begin it. For boldness has magic, power, and genius in it. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It’s in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped. – Anthony Robbins

People say I’m indecisive, but I don’t know about that. – George Bush

Some Inspiring Quotes on  Failure

There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought. -  Laurence J. Peter

Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn’t work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.- Roger Von Oech

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. - Thomas Alva Edison

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. - Samuel Smiles

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done. – Samuel Smiles

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. – Robert F. Kennedy

Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat. – Ralph Ellison

But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it’s better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you’re fighting for. – Paulo Coelho

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to er – Mohandas K. Gandhi

Life’s real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up.

Success builds character, failure reveals it - Dave Checkett

Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.  – Stephen Kaggwa

The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure. - Sven Goran Eriksson

I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed. – Michael Jordan

Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.  – Chinese Proverbs

A man may fall many times, but he won’t be a failure until he says that someone pushed him. – Elmer G. Letterman

To be wrong is nothing unless you continue to remember it – Confucius

If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.  - Woody Allen

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing. – George Bernard Shaw

Last but not least – If You‘ve Never Failed, You‘ve Never Lived

Weekend Quotes

“Middle age is when you’re sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn’t for you.” Ogden Nash

“Weekends don’t count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.” Bill Watterson

“There aren’t enough days in the weekend.” Rod Schmidt

“Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them.” John Shirley

“why wait for the weekend to have fun?” Loesje

“If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.” Doug Larson

“The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.” Chuck Palahniuk

“Your hair may be brushed, but your mind’s untidy. You’ve had about seven hours of sleep since Friday. No wonder you feel that lost sensation. You’re sunk from a riot of relaxation.” Ogden Nash

“Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.” Lyndon B. Johnson

“Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.” Anthony Burgess

“Of all the days that’s in the week
I dearly love but one day
And that’s the day that comes betwixt
A Saturday and Monday.” Henry Carey

“Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.” Joseph Addison

“Men are simple things. They can survive a whole weekend with only three things: beer, boxer shorts and batteries for the remote control..” – Diana Jordan

“We’re only a weekend through this and it feels like a month. But we’re doing fine.” -Joe Peel

“We had a different third every weekend. It was hard to get on a roll.” Adam Enright

“I’m looking forward to this weekend and maybe see some surprises. It’s a great opportunity, and I really think that all of them have the ability to make some noise.” Alan Carter

A small tribute to wonderful god creatures.

Quotes on Women

Women like silent men. They think they’re listening. ~Marcel Achard, Quote, 4 November 1956

Good-looking girls break hearts, and goodhearted girls mend them. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966

The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think. ~ Unknown

Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman’s weapon is her tongue. ~Hermione Gingoldtcalf

Women are like elephants to me. I like to look at them, but I wouldn’t want to own one. ~W.C. Fields

The rarest thing in the world is a woman who is pleased with photographs of herself. ~Elizabeth Metcalf

A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are. ~Chauncey Mitchell Depew

Can you imagine a world without men? No crime and lots of happy fat women. ~Nicole Hollander

Women get the last word in every argument. Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument. ~ Unknown

A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon. ~Arnold Haultain

Every woman is wrong until she cries, and then she is right – instantly. ~Sam Slick (Thomas Chandler Haliburton)

A highbrow is a man who has found something more interesting than women. ~Edgar Wallace

It upsets women to be, or not to be, stared at hungrily. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

I’d rather have two girls at seventeen than one at thirty-four. ~Fred Allen

All women are basically in competition with each other for a handful of eligible men. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966

A woman wears her tears like jewelry. ~ Unknown

If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late? Nobody. ~J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye

No woman wants to see herself too clearly. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966

Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman. ~Honoré de Balzac, The Physiology of Marriage

The girls that are always easy on the eyes are never easy on the heart. ~Unknown

Men enjoy being thought of as hunters, but are generally too lazy to hunt. Women, on the other hand, love to hunt, but would rather nobody knew it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966

Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson

Men look at themselves in mirrors. Women look for themselves. ~Elissa Melamed

There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature. ~Stephen Stills

It is because of men that women dislike one another. ~Jean de La Bruyère, Characters, 1688

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt. ~Thomas Carlyle

A woman can look both moral and exciting… if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle. ~Edna Ferber

Women have very little idea of how much men hate them. ~Germaine Greer

Do you not know I am a woman? when I think, I must speak. ~William Shakespeare, As You Like It

Women always worry about the things that men forget; men always worry about the things women remember. ~ Unknown

In the United States, Independence Day, commonly known as the Fourth of July, is a federal holiday commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, declaring independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain. Independence Day is commonly associated with fireworks, parades, barbecues, carnivals, picnics, concerts, baseball games, political speeches and ceremonies, and various other public and private events celebrating the history, government, and traditions of the United States. Independence Day is the national day of the United States. – Wikipedia.

Some Quotes on Independence day [ Fourth of July ]

The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.  ~Woodrow Wilson

Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.  ~Harry Emerson Fosdick

Let freedom never perish in your hands.  ~ Joseph Addison

You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness.  You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism.  ~ Erma Bombeck

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.  ~Thomas Paine

Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed – else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.  ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.  ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

A statistician made a few calculations and discovered that since the birth of our nation more lives had been lost in celebrating independence than in winning it.  ~Curtis Billings

Freedom’s natal day is here.
Fire the guns and shout for freedom,
See the flag above unfurled!
Hail the stars and stripes forever,
Dearest flag in all the world.
~Florence A. Jones

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself.  ~Thomas Paine

This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.  ~Elmer Davis

This, then, is the state of the union:  free and restless, growing and full of hope.  So it was in the beginning.  So it shall always be, while God is willing, and we are strong enough to keep the faith.  ~Lyndon B. Johnson

For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges.  ~John Burroughs, Journal

Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.  ~Louis D. Brandeis

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.  ~Albert Camus

It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.  ~Dick Cheney

Liberty is the breath of life to nations.  ~George Bernard Shaw

America is much more than a geographical fact.  It is a political and moral fact – the first community in which men set out in principle to institutionalize freedom, responsible government, and human equality.  ~Adlai Stevenson

May the sun in his course visit no land more free, more happy, more lovely, than this our own country!  ~Daniel Webster

We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil for their ploughs but to secure liberty for their souls.  ~Robert J. McCracken

If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace.  ~Hamilton Fish

Liberty means responsibility.  That is why most men dread it.  ~George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, “Maxims: Liberty and Equality,” 1905

It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism.  ~J. Horace McFarland

The winds that blow through the wide sky in these mounts, the winds that sweep from Canada to Mexico, from the Pacific to the Atlantic – have always blown on free men.  ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.  ~ Simone de Beauvoir

The United States is the only country with a known birthday.  ~James G. Blaine

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom.  The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.  ~Thomas Macaulay

Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all!
By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.
~John Dickinson

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.  ~William Faulkner

My God!  How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!  ~Thomas Jefferson

What is the essence of America?  Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom “to” and freedom “from.”  ~Marilyn vos Savant, in Parade

How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.  ~Paul Sweeney

From every mountain side Let Freedom ring.
~Samuel F. Smith, “America”

We need an America with the wisdom of experience.  But we must not let America grow old in spirit.  ~Hubert H. Humphrey

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.  ~Abraham Lincoln

Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.  ~Moshe Dayan

And I’m proud to be an American,
where at least I know I’m free.
And I won’t forget the men who died,
who gave that right to me.
~Lee Greenwood

It is sweet to serve one’s country by deeds, and it is not absurd to serve her by words.  ~Sallust

My patriotic heart beats red, white, and blue.  ~Author Unknown

Freedom is not enough.  ~Lyndon B. Johnson

We are free, truly free, when we don’t need to rent our arms to anybody in order to be able to lift a piece of bread to our mouths.  ~Ricardo Flores Magon, speech, 31 May 1914

Freedom is never free.  ~Author Unknown

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is
right with America.  ~William J. Clinton

I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery.  ~Author Unknown

love my freedom.  I love my America.  ~Jessi Lane Adams

Without freedom, no one really has a name.  ~Milton Acorda

Where liberty dwells, there is my country.  ~Benjamin Franklin

All we have of freedom, all we use or know -
This our fathers bought for us long and long ago.
~Rudyard Kipling, The Old Issue, 1899