Hubert Humphrey Quotes

You cannot make progress without making 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.

While your past can inform you and your future can inspire you, the moment of choice exists in the here and now.

Often any decision, even the wrong decision, is better than no decision.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

It is always your next move.

There is a time when we must firmly choose the course which we will follow or the endless drift of events will make the decision for us.

Doubt yourself all you want, but you have to make choices in life and live with them.

The more time you spend contemplating what you should have done... you lose valuable time planning what you can and will do.

You don’t make decisions in hindsight; you make them in the present. You live and learn.

I have always said that I am one to look forward rather than back; what has happened in the past I can't change now. What is forward, I can.

I always make a decision, even if it's the wrong one. I hate being confused.

The way through the challenge is to get still and ask yourself, 'What is the next right move? What is the next right move?' and then, from that space, make the next right move and the next right move.

Nothing happens until you decide. Make a decision and watch your life move forward.

Sometimes, making the wrong choice is better than making no choice. You have the courage to go forward, that is rare. A person who stands at the fork, unable to pick, will never get anywhere.

I think the worst decision is usually no decision. If you make the wrong decision you can usually course-correct, but if you don't make it, you've already made it, and it's usually the bad one.

When in doubt, take the next step.

Should-haves solve nothing. It's the next thing to happen that needs thinking about.

It is not a question of starting. The start has been made. It's a question of what's to be done from now on.

My friend Terry says that when you need to make a decision, in your work or otherwise, and you don’t know what to do, just do one thing or the other, because the worst that can happen is that you will have made a terrible mistake.

Sometimes success isn't about making the right decision, it's more about making some decision.

The question which we must ask ourselves is not whether we like or do not like what is going on, but what we are going to do about it.

Complaining is silly. Either act or forget.

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

When morning comes, you would better find yourself saying: 'I have so many choices of what to do or what to leave - every morning, every day. I better judge for myself, and - go ahead and do it.'