Decision Quotes - Page 34

Man is man because he is free to operate within the framework of his destiny. He is free to deliberate, to make decisions, and to choose between alternatives.

I look at decisions like - it's like an Indiana Jones movie. The guy comes to a rope ladder, and he's being chased. There's uncertainty on the other side, but he knows when he gets to the other side, he's going to take his machete and cut the rope ladder behind him. He has no retreat.

You need to be prepared for firm decisions and action, without losing gentleness towards those who obstruct or abuse you. It's as great a weakness to be angry with them as it is to abandon your plan of action and give up through fear.

The decisions we make dictate the schedules we keep. The schedules we keep determine the lives we live. The lives we live determine how we spend our souls. So, this isn't just about finding time. This is about honoring God with the time we have.

I suddenly realized at the CIA that I had to make life-and-death decisions about people.

There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.

Going to rehab was the best decision I ever made.

We all can be masters at our craft, but you have to make sacrifices that come along with making that decision.

Every time you make a decision, you mess with someone's life.

My life is a party thrown for me by my own decisions.

The truth was this: Love is a decision.

I had always thought of starting my own record company. I haven't regretted the decision - yet!

It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.

Chaos umpire sits And by decision more embroils the fray by which he reigns: next him high arbiter Chance governs all.

The timing of your decision is just as important as the decision you make.

Give God the first part of every day. Give God the first day of every week. Give God the first portion of your income. Give God the first consideration in every decision. Give God the first place in your life.

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

Business owners are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an owner away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Let principles make decisions.

I am more than willing to be judged by the people you claim to represent. I will let them decide what price I should pay. But please do not sit up there with that smug look on your face and expect me to regret the decisions I have made. Because, sir, the truth is I don't.

Because of new technologies, new wealth, new conditions of domestic life and of international relations, unprecedented criteria and issues are coming up for national decision.

Politics is the art of postponing decisions until they are no longer relevant.

I feel that if I am freed of the burden of politics, then I can do more and I can take more unpopular decisions. I can have as my guidance for decision whatever is right, not whatever is popular.

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

Running for president was a good decision.