Never reply when you are angry. Never make a promise when you are happy. Never make a decision when you are sad.

Never make a decision when you’re angry. Never make a promise when you’re happy.

Never make a decision when you’re angry. Never make a promise when you’re happy.

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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.

Source: Anthony Robbins; Awaken the Giant Within : How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical & Financial Destiny! (1992) page 49.

If you think you can you can, If you think you can’t you’re right.

Note: This quote is misattributed to Mark Twain.

For I am—or I was—one of those people who pride themselves in on their willpower, on their ability to make a decision and carry it through. This virtue, like most virtues, is ambiguity itself. People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception. Their decisions are not really decisions at all—a real decision makes one humble, one knows that it is at the mercy of more things than can be named—but elaborate systems of evasion, of illusion, designed to make themselves and the world appear to be what they and the world are not. This is certainly what my decision, made so long ago in Joey’s bed, came to. I had decided to allow no room in the universe for something which shamed and frightened me. I succeeded very well—by not looking at the universe, by not looking at myself, by remaining, in effect, in constant motion.

Source: Giovanni’s Room.

There is no reset button in life. You can’t take anything back, and you can’t undo anything. All of your actions have consequences, and the things you say and do today will have a lasting impact on the rest of your life. You have to understand that, and you have to be aware of it while making your decisions.