<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Decisions - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64628]]></link><description><![CDATA[A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of people don't want to make their own decisions. They're too scared. It's much easier to be told ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64562]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of people don't want to make their own decisions. They're too scared. It's much easier to be told what to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64355]]></link><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63360]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63144]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Follow your heart regardless of what others tell you to do. At the end of the day it's you that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63103]]></link><description><![CDATA[Follow your heart regardless of what others tell you to do. At the end of the day it's you that has to live with your decisions, not them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11638]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11618]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything starts with yourself -- with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything starts with yourself -- with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life. I tell kids that it's a cruel world, and that the world will bend them either left or right, and it's up to them to decide which way to bend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate to see things done by halves. If it be right, do it boldly, if it be wrong leave ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11620]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate to see things done by halves. If it be right, do it boldly, if it be wrong leave it undone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11622]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11623]]></link><description><![CDATA[One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because we are driven into a corner and must say somethign. - Essays.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11625]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of our executives make very sound decisions. The trouble is many of them have turned out not to have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of our executives make very sound decisions. The trouble is many of them have turned out not to have been right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shelving hard decisions is the least ethical course. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shelving hard decisions is the least ethical course.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can bring you to the door, but you have to walk through. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11629]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can bring you to the door, but you have to walk through.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have not converted a man because you have silenced him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11630]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indecision is like a stepchild: if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indecision is like a stepchild: if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business leaders often get credit for the successful decisions that were forced on them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Business leaders often get credit for the successful decisions that were forced on them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indecision and delays are the parents of failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11633]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11634]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are given one life, and the decision is our whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11635]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are given one life, and the decision is our whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Decisiveness is often the art of timely cruelty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Decisiveness is often the art of timely cruelty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can try to avoid making choices by doing nothing, but even that is a decision. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11637]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can try to avoid making choices by doing nothing, but even that is a decision.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11467]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I argue very well. Ask any of my remaining friends. I can win an argument on any topic, against any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3092]]></link><description><![CDATA[I argue very well. Ask any of my remaining friends. I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1931]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1931</guid></item></channel></rss>