Trust Your Gut! 13 Quotes to Be Confident in Your Decisions

UPDATED: August 31, 2024
PUBLISHED: August 10, 2017

We should pay more attention to the way we feel about things, especially with big decisions. In the workplace or situations where critical thinking is important, using logic is a must. But when it comes to making personal decisions, sometimes you need to feel your way toward the right choice.

If you’re grappling with a tough decision, choose with your heart and trust your gut. Embrace your intuitive side with help from these 13 quotes about making confident decisions.

Related: 10 Ways Successful People Make Smart Decisions

Trust Your Gut! 13 Quotes to Be Confident in Your Decisions

1. “In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.” ―Theodore Roosevelt


Trust Your Gut! 13 Quotes to Be Confident in Your Decisions

2. “Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.” ―Brian Tracy


Trust Your Gut! 13 Quotes to Be Confident in Your Decisions

3. “Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.” ―Paul Tillich


Trust Your Gut! 13 Quotes to Be Confident in Your Decisions

4. “Decision is the spark that ignites action. Until a decision is made, nothing happens…. Decision is the courageous facing of issues, knowing that if they are not faced, problems will remain forever unanswered.” ―Wilfred A. Peterson


Trust Your Gut! 13 Quotes to Be Confident in Your Decisions

5. “Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions.” ―Mark Twain


Trust Your Gut! 13 Quotes to Be Confident in Your Decisions

6. “Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong…. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.” ―Ralph Waldo Emerson


Trust Your Gut! 13 Quotes to Be Confident in Your Decisions

7. “Be decisive. A wrong decision is generally less disastrous than indecision.” ―Bernhard Langer


Trust Your Gut! 13 Quotes to Be Confident in Your Decisions

8. “Changing our decision sets up a bad habit. It reinforces decision-making as an expression of bewilderment and ignorance, instead of wisdom and freedom.” ―Sakyong Mipham


Trust Your Gut! 13 Quotes to Be Confident in Your Decisions

9. “There is no decision that we can make that doesn’t come with some sort of balance or sacrifice.” ―Simon Sinek


Trust Your Gut! 13 Quotes to Be Confident in Your Decisions

10. “When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!” ―George S. Patton


Trust Your Gut! 13 Quotes to Be Confident in Your Decisions

11. “Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.” ―Tony Robbins


Trust Your Gut! 13 Quotes to Be Confident in Your Decisions

12. “Why do we have to listen to our hearts? Because, wherever your heart is, that is where you’ll find your treasure.” ―Paulo Coelho


Trust Your Gut! 13 Quotes to Be Confident in Your Decisions

13. “The person who in shaky times also wavers only increases the evil, but the person of firm decision fashions the universe.” ―Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Related: 4 Steps to Make Decisions With Confidence

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