Quotes About Decision

In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The second best thing is the wrong thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.

I had always felt that if there were a serious war I wished to be in a position to explain to my children why I did take part in it, and not why I did not take part in it.

The President and the Congress are all very well in their way. They can say what they think they think, but it rests with the Supreme Court to decide what they have really thought.

With soul of flame and temper of steel we must act as our coolest judgment bids us.

In a moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.

The important thing is generally the "next step." We ought not to take it unless we are sure that it is advisable; but we should not hesitate to take it once we are sure; and we can safely join with others who also wish to take it, without bothering our heads overmuch as to any fantastic theories they may have concerning, say, the two hundredth step, which is not yet in sight.

If I must choose between righteousness and peace, I choose righteousness.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.

People have to make journeys, what we want is people to have alternatives in public transport so that they can make a choice about the sort of way in which they're going to travel.

Nature takes the decision first, man agrees, reconciles, modifies, refutes, contradicts etc., subsequently. It means the application of reason, the discretionary power of a man, only happens afterwards!

Here is the principle: If you know you have to make a difficult decision with someone, don't delay. The situation will only worsen. But please be certain you have no other alternatives.

Seven out of ten guests will go to a church website as a determinative factor in where they will choose to visit.

If given a choice between life and death, most people and leaders choose death if life requires substantive changes.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Beware, therefore, lest thou strive too earnestly after some desire which thou hast conceived, without taking counsel of Me; lest haply it repent thee afterwards, and that displease thee which before pleased, and for which thou didst long as for a great good.

Would you rather be stung by a thousand wasps or sleep in the pigpen? Answer one or the other! You have to answer one or the other. Grownup versions may be more sophisticated, as, Are you a Democrat or a Republican? The

Man has free choice, or otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards and punishments would be in vain.

In deliberation we may hesitate; but a deliberated act must be performed swiftly.

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.

Never did man make worse use of his wits than thou hast done.

Yet to decide that this One exists is not quite like deciding that anything else exists. For this decision assumes a wider implication that the decider shall order his or her life around the existence of this One, if this One exists at all. It is not merely a casual or theoretical decision that makes no necessary difference to the way one lives the rest of one's life

Thought is the parent of the deed.

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.