Top 170 Deciding Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Deciding Quotes from famous people such as Gabrielle Carteris, Harshvardhan Rane, Mercedes Schlapp, Elise Stefanik, Roberta Flack, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

Women come to a time in their lives where they raise th

Women come to a time in their lives where they raise their kids, they’ve had their careers, their kids leave home, and they’re deciding, ‘Am I recommitting to my relationship? It’s been a great ride. Do I want to stay here? Maybe there’s something else.’
Gabrielle Carteris
For people like me, I think it is more about, ‘When do people give you an opportunity?’ rather than you deciding about when you want to make a debut. If I had a chance, I would have come as a child artist in this industry.
Harshvardhan Rane
Of course, deciding whether or not to have children is a personal decision, but I would encourage couples to stay open to the idea that having a child or adopting provides both personal and societal benefits.
Mercedes Schlapp
I read ‘Lean In’ at a really important time as I was deciding to run for office.
Elise Stefanik
Our criteria for deciding what’s good and what’s bad is very fickle, especially in this country.
Roberta Flack
It’s always a tough call deciding whether, as a scientist, you should argue publicly with the creationists. It’s a dilemma that I encounter frequently in another subject area: Does it make sense to bandy words with someone from the UFO community?
Seth Shostak
We don’t agree with Caitlyn Jenner deciding she is the spokesperson for trans people.
Genesis P-Orridge
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
Tony Robbins
Make no mistake: Deciding to abstain from the Pledge of Allegiance does communicate something, and therefore, it is a form of speech. It’s also a form of peaceful protest, the right to which is another one of our values.
Kat Timpf
Acknowledging that there’s something you desire, not going after it, and deciding that, ‘You know what, it’s fine; I’ll just focus on what I do have, make myself a ham sandwich, and call it a day,’ isn’t happiness. It’s denial.
Jen Sincero
Helping set the day’s agenda and deciding what we used and editing it, that was a journalistic high point. I liked reporting as well. Just doing the news – the live performance – wasn’t important. Working on the desk was.
Walter Cronkite
I don’t get tons of scripts to be looking at and deciding on in terms of feature films; the industry has changed. Fortunately, with television and streaming and original series online, there’s this whole new thing that has opened up, which I think is fantastic.
Joan Allen
Take the time to educate yourself, whether you’re house hunting, deciding on materials or looking for a lender. When homeowners jump into something blind, that’s always when they make mistakes.
Drew Scott
The Internet has done nothing but good for comedy all around. Comedians no longer have to rely on TV execs and club owners deciding if they are funny or not.
Doug Stanhope
A lot of people who can afford a vehicle are deciding against owning one. They just need access to transport. So, our job is to offer wider choices to consumers with more innovative models.
Anand Mahindra
At Warby Parker, we ask ourselves a number of questions when deciding whether or not to partner up with a designer, or a nonprofit or brand. Is the potential collaboration new? Is it unexpected? Will it result in something worth talking about over dinner? Will it do good? Will it introduce us to a new audience?
Neil Blumenthal
Economic security can feel like an impossible goal when you’re living paycheck to paycheck, deciding between paying the light bill or the water bill, knowing the decision to pay either one may mean you can’t put food on the table.
Stacey Abrams
I love both sports, but the deciding factor was, being a left-handed pitcher, I had a huge advantage in baseball because of that, and I didn’t have that type of advantage in hockey.
Tom Glavine
A ‘Globe’ examination found that Boston police officers exercise broad discretion when deciding whether to issue a ticket.
Bill Dedman
There has been far too much of journalists deciding they are on the side of something and going out to get the story, instead of truth seeking which is a different thing.
Claire Fox
Nobody in Maine should be deciding between whether they go to a doctor, whether they buy their medicine or whether they’re putting food on the table.
Sara Gideon
As I have said repeatedly, if confirmed to the court, I would be part of a team of nine, committed to deciding cases according to the constitution and laws of the United States. I would always strive to be a team player.
Brett Kavanaugh
A human being is a deciding being.
Viktor E. Frankl
When you think about it, three of our biggest financial decisions in life are made at times of peak emotional excitement: deciding to get married, buying a home, and having kids.
Robert Kiyosaki
I know it sounds really precious and pretentious, but I can’t actually remember deciding to want to be an actor. I just knew that I had too many feelings and I had to kind of get them out in some way.
Anya Taylor-Joy
It is with unwelcome frequency that I find myself the deciding vote.
Arlen Specter
I’m the type of guy who, right as I’m taking off, I’m deciding, ‘Hey, where do I want to go today?’
Jimmy Graham
Deciding whether to confirm a president’s nominee for the highest court in the land is a responsibility I take very seriously.
Bill Nelson
So many of these decisions are made in a vacuum with a bunch of men sitting around a table deciding what a woman’s rights should be, what our access to health care, trying to control women by controlling our bodies.
Gretchen Whitmer
Deciding which ideas to save and which ideas to discard is one of society’s most important tasks.
Timothy Noah
By deciding to live our lives based on solid values and unwavering truth, we can leave a legacy for the young men and boys who want nothing more than to follow in our footsteps.
Benjamin Watson
It's not about choosing a specific genre; that's not ho

It’s not about choosing a specific genre; that’s not how I go about deciding what movies to make.
Denis Villeneuve
There is no evidence that an animal can take on the sophisticated task of deciding to end his life and to communicate that decision to us.
Jon Katz
When you represent the state of Washington, we have a tradition of deciding social issues by vote. Washington State passed abortion rights before Roe v. Wade and affirmed it at the ballot box later.
Michael Baumgartner
I love the early process of asking questions about a story and deciding which questions matter most.
Diane Sawyer
I was 35 years old and in a position to take a shot at whatever I wanted to try. The Air Force said I was too old to fly fighter jets. I thought about becoming a fishing boat captain, before deciding that acting seemed pretty cool.
Jerry Doyle
I started playing golf because I wanted to be good. After a while, you have to come to a decision of, ‘Am I good enough or not?’ If you say ‘yes,’ then it’s a simple step towards deciding to be as good as you can be.
Tom Lehman
TV broadcasting is owned, in the sense that governments around the world have asserted power over the airwaves that permeate their territories, deciding who can use what bandwidth and why – and those with licenses then, with exceptions determined by regulators, decide what to broadcast.
Jonathan Zittrain
I can’t believe there is a poet who hasn’t eagerly put down a word one day, only to erase it the next day deciding it was sheer lunacy. It’s part of the process of selection.
Stephen Dobyns
They meant abnormal. Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one’s need to help by deciding that help could neither be accepted nor understood.
Janet Frame
The future of work is really about people deciding to live and work in the way that they want.
Stacy Brown-Philpot
How I started my musical career, officially, was really, like, my family and I deciding to put out, you know, the ‘Closer’ album that started really small, you know, with a vision that we’d make it pass there.
Goapele
I’m not photographing the model in the classic sense; the model is playing a part in my photographs. It’s more like theater. I always work with models I know, and I let them participate in deciding how to act their part.
Kim Weston
When you get onto the ball, people think three or four times before deciding whether to try and tackle you. Your opponents respect you, and your markers give you a couple of metres of space.
Rivaldo
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.
Susan Wojcicki
It really came down to deciding between baseball and soccer. Soccer won out because I enjoyed it more.
Brian McBride
The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.
Orison Swett Marden
And the user may have a higher comfort level deciding what information to provide rather than worrying about what inferences might be made from what they’ve gathered.
Edward Felten
I don’t remember deciding to become a writer. You decide to become a dentist or a postman. For me, writing is like being gay. You finally admit that this is who you are, you come out and hope that no one runs away.
Mark Haddon
You have to think of your career the way you look at the ocean, deciding which wave you’re gonna take and which waves you’re not gonna take. Some of the waves are going to be big, some are gonna be small, sometimes the sea is going to be calm. Your career is not going to be one steady march upward to glory.
Alan Arkin
I remember lying in bed one night when I was 15 and deciding I was ready to go into acting properly. I’d put it off until then because I didn’t feel I was ready to handle the rejections.
Lily Collins