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Quotes About Decision

He took her hand in his and knelt before her. "Marry me," he said. Valkyrie looked at him. He was serious. She had never used the word dude in a serious conversation before. She didn't think this qualified. "Dude, I'm sixteen.
~ Derek Landy
War is a drastic thing,
~ Derek Landy
It is often necessary to make a decision on the basis of knowledge sufficient for action but insufficient to satisfy the intellect.
~ Immanuel Kant
Knowledge is only one ingredient on arriving at a stock's proper price. The other ingredient, fully as important as information, is sound judgment.
~ Benjamin Graham
It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
~ Tony Robbins
Don't ask the barber whether you need a haircut, and don't ask an academic if what he does is relevant.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have.
~ Robert Frost
Education can't make us all leaders, but it can teach us which leader to follow.
~ Bel Kaufman
What I really need is to get clear out about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge precedes every act.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
To act without knowledge is folly, to know without acting is cowardice.
~ Dominique Pire
Every law, every constitution, every regulative decision is based upon what people are discussing in their community. It's based upon our sum knowledge of history and the present.
~ Julian Assange
You should have a fund of knowledge of something and out of that you make up you mind.
~ John Kluge
[Misquotation; not by Einstein.] If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. [Apparently remorseful for his role in the development of the atom bomb.]
~ Albert Einstein
A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.
~ J. P. Morgan
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
~ Peter F. Drucker
Leadership is the ability to decide what is to be done and then get others to do it.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Leadership is a choice, not a position
~ Stephen Covey
The real heart of strategy is the strategist.
~ Max McKeown, The Strategy Book
The first step in calculating which way to go is to find out where you are.
~ Margaret Thatcher
Weak leadership can wreck the soundest strategy
~ Sun Tzu
A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible.
~ Polybius
The ability to choose cannot be taken away or even given away-it can only be forgotten.
~ Greg McKeown
You have no idea what hangs in the balance of your decision on what to do with the burden God put in your heart.
~ Andy Stanley