Quotes About Decision

I do not set my life at a pin's fee.

We must take the current when it serves,Or lose our ventures.

Thus when I shun Scylla, your father, I fall into Charybdis, your mother.

If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere wellIt were done quickly; if the assassinationCould trammel up the consequence, and catchWith his surcease success; that but this blowMight be the be-all and the end-all here,But here, upon this bank and shoal of time,We'd jump the life to come.

We would, and we would not.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.

It makes us, or it mars us.

Some of you with Pilate wash your hands,Showing an outward pity.

No, I don't regret anything at this point. That may change on the next phone call, but at the moment I don't regret anything.

Now I have a choice. I can go back up, collect my football, and head home; or I can go through. I know what I ought to do. I know what every other boy in Amarias would do. But as I see it, those are the two best reasons there could possibly be for doing the opposite.

If nominated, I will not run if elected, I will not serve.

War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.

I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected.

I hereby state, and mean all that I say, that I never have been and never will be a candidate for President; that if nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline; and even if unanimously elected I should decline to serve.

The other often much prefers a clear answer, even if it is No, than continued indecision and waffling.

It must be conceded by those who admit the authority of Scripture (such only he is addressing) that from the decision of the word of God there can be no appeal.

they should consent to be pleased in spite of that most dreadful enemy to our pleasures, our own pre-established codes of decision.

He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater that does not marry a fool; what is wit in a wife good for, but to make a man a cuckold?

Deep breathing at an open window is a wonderful thing unless you live in Los Angeles or down the block from an asbestos plant. Everybody knows that filling your lungs with oxygen is good, but not many people do it. It's like most of the choices you have in life. You know inside what is right. Whether you do it is up to you.

You know inside whether it's right. But you still have to choose to do it.

It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to keep it.

I want a priest, a rabbi, and a Protestant clergyman. I want to hedge my bets.

Britain and France had to choose between war and dishonour. They chose dishonour. They will have war.

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.