Quotes About Decision

He felt a deep swelling of pride but also anguish. It was the torment all loving parents feel when they see their child making a difficult and perhaps dangerous decision as an adult when, in memory, they still see the small innocent child of years long gone.

and three suicides, though one minister had tried to protest that decision that they be buried in what was now consecrated ground. That protest was greeted with icy rejection from Charlie, who was now a former member of that congregation.

Ambivalence is simultaneously wanting and not wanting something, or wanting both of two incompatible things. It has been human nature since the dawn of time.

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness, concerning all acts of initiative and creation. There is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision. —JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

Accuracy. Going through the OODA loop (Observe-Orient-Decide-Act) faster than your enemies remains important, but accuracy of Observation and Orientation may be more important than speed.5 Because Fourth Generation forces are usually "flat," networked organizations, state-armed forces must "flatten" their own hierarchical structures in order to remain competitive.

Decide on some imperfect Somebody and you will win, because the truest truism in politics is You can't beat Somebody with Nobody.

The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.

The manner in which a man chooses to gamble indicates his character or his lack of it.

Who wooed in haste and means to wed at leisure

Men at sometime are the masters of their fate.

Hasty marriage seldom proveth well.

A young man married is a man that's marr'd.

There's an old saying that applies to me: you can't lose a game if you don't play the game. (Act 1, scene 4)

Your "if" is the only peacemaker; much virtue in "if."

I have set my life upon a cast,And I will stand the hazard of the die.I think there be six Richmonds in the field.

This is the nightThat either makes me or fordoes me quite.

Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of the brain awe a man from the career of his humor? No; the world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Delays have dangerous ends.

Had he not resembledMy father as he slept I had done 't.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deedsMakes ill deeds done!

I would not be a queenFor all the world.

Some craven scrupleOf thinking too precisely on the event.

To do a great right, do a little wrong.