Quotes About Decisiveness

He was a man who always acted on Flagler's business motto of favoring "sharp, vigorous and decisive measures.

From the First Philippic of Demosthenes, he plucked a passage that summed up his conception of a leader as someone who would not pander to popular whims. "As a general marches at the head of his troops," so should wise politicians "march at the head of affairs, insomuch that they ought not to wait the event to know what measures to take, but the measures which they have taken ought to produce the event.

A man's life is wasted when he lives on, so deceived by the joys of life or by its sorrows, that he never becomes decisively conscious of himself as spirit, as self, that is, he never is aware in the deepest sense that there is a God.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.

Don't be indecisive and unstable in all your ways. Rather, walk in the strength, confidence, and boldness that come from decisive action.

Some women are just better at knowing what they want, which saves them the trouble of wasting too much time on the wrong guy.

Ponedad nije preterano važno šta odlu?iš, bitno je da odlu?iš brzo i držiš s svoje odluke.

I do not accept reading tips from strangers, especially from indecisive men whose shirt collars are a dramatically different color from the main portion of the garment.

Be decisive; no one likes a waffler"; "Never complain, never explain"—

Resolved to die in the last dike of prevarication.

met it with calm decisiveness.

if you're going to shoot, shoot.

I want to tell you ladies and gentlemen, the actions that we took were not always easy. The actions that we took were not always popular. But when you get yourself in public office, you must lead, you must do what's necessary.

Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife—chopping off what's incomplete and saying: "Now, it's complete because it's ended here.

Go right to the depth of their uncertainty, dispose of that, and all the rest must follow.

Good administrators make immediate choices." "Acceptable choices?" "They usually can be made to work. A bad administrator, on the other hand, hesitates, diddles around, asks for committees, for research and reports. Eventually, he acts in ways which create serious problems.

Everybody gives Trump an extremely bad rap. He's a businessman, so he is not trying to rub your back and tell you everything is going to be OK. He is going to set standards and, when everything is in chaos, you need someone who is willing to do what needs to be done.

There's a touch of the gambler in anybody really competitive and somebody that's willing to concede that to succeed, sometimes you need to cut corners and to make bold choices.

I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.

And for the team, I always tried to do the right thing.

One of the important things as a captain or coach is knowing what's going on around you, and knowing the right thing to say at the right time.

Well," Mrs. Plumber was saying decisively into the telephone, "I have discovered the secret of life." Wow, thought Harriet. "My dear, it's very simple, you just take to your bed. You just refuse to leave it for anything or anybody.

The best decision-makers are those who are willing to suffer the most over their decisions but still retain their ability to be decisive. One

Finally, she was doing something. She didn't know what, exactly, but action always suited her better than waiting around.