Quotes About Decision

The ultimate risk is not taking a risk.

The bravest of individuals is the one who obeys his or her conscience.

But mayn't desertion be a brave thing? A fine thing? To desert a thing we've gone beyond - to have the courage to desert it and walk right off from the dead thing to the live thing - ?

Courage is a virtue only so far as it is directed by prudence.

Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.

Instead of antiquated notions of physical daring, courage is much more about making small choices to take initiative even when we are experiencing anxiety and facing risk.

But what I realize, here, now, is that it's not actually making the choice that takes courage. It's facing it afterward. Owning up to it, whether it's good or bad.

Any idiot can be brave, but courage is about knowing what's at stake, and moving forward anyway.

I think we need someone in a responsible political position to have the courage to say, 'Let's terminate human spaceflight.'

Let no one say that taking action is hard. Action is aided by courage, by the moment, by impulse, and the hardest thing in the world is making a decision.

Once the 'what' is decided, the 'how' always follows. We must not make the 'how' an excuse for not facing and accepting the 'what.'

Great courage will be required to choose the right.

We need the courage to start and continue what we should do, and courage to stop what we shouldn't do.

Courage is the decision to fly straight into the flame while knowing the consequences.

How do you summon up courage to dismiss a cat who is paying you a compliment of sitting on your lap?

Sometimes it take courage to leave.

If we have the courage to decide ourselves for peace we will have peace.

Courage, like so many other things, was not something one did or didn't have; it was a decision, a choice.

The only wrong thing, perhaps, is permanently hesitating on the verge of courage.

If you are scared to go to the brink you are lost.

I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude.

Leadership is about having the courage to go against the advice of the so-called experts and doing what your instinct tells you is right.

It was me, Dad, that hired Stone Cold back. Dad, it was me!

I met Picasso when I was a kid. I turned one of his drawings down which would be worth £37 million now. My dad wouldn't talk to me for a fortnight.