Quotes About Decision

Make up your mind, yaar, choose one thing.' 'How can I? I'm just a human being,' he replied

In case they don't have strawberry, which one – chocolate or vanilla?

A mandarin fell in love with a courtesan. 'I shall be yours,' she told him, 'when you have spent a hundred nights waiting for me, sitting on a stool, in my garden, beneath my window.' But on the ninety-ninth night, the mandarin stood up, put his stool under his arm, and went away.

People tell you to keep your courage up. But the time for courage is when she was sick, when I took care of her and saw her suffering, her sadness, and when I had to conceal my tears. Constantly one had to make a decision, put on a mask and that was courage. --Now, courage means the will to live and there's all too much of that.

answers. I took another swig of water, screwed the cap back on and thought about the next place I must look for Doc. I did not like it

Wars oftener proceed from angry and perverse passions than from cool calculations of interest.

He applauded a belated decision to evacuate Garfield from the White House in early September and bring him by train to Long Branch. "During the months of August and September the White House is one of the most unhealthy places in the world," Grant told the press. "He should have been taken from there long ago.

As it turned out, Junior resigned from the bank board the following year, finding some of its practices questionable.

Junior waited more than a year to depart from the company.

At the January 11, 1910, board meeting, he quietly retired as a director of Standard Oil:

The decision was partly a question of style.

So why did Senior procrastinate in giving him his money?

He believed there was a time to think and then a time to act.

He believed there was a time to think and then a time to act. He brooded over problems and quietly matured plans over extended periods. Once he had made up his mind, however, he was no longer troubled by doubts and pursued his vision with undeviating faith. Unfortunately, once in that state of mind, he was all but deaf to criticism. He was like a projectile that, once launched, could never be stopped, never recalled, never diverted.

in war anything is better than indecision. We must decide. If I am wrong we shall soon find it out, and can do the other thing. But not to decide wastes both time and money and may ruin everything.

Think of pouring out all that money on a whim.

a general marches at the head of his troops," so should wise politicians "march at the head of affairs, insomuch that they ought not to wait the event to know what measures to take, but the measures which they have taken ought to produce the event.

For a time, they were held back by Benjamin Brewster, and Rockefeller, unwilling to move without a consensus, yielded against his better judgment.

Junior decided to look elsewhere and finally selected Brown because three close friends had chosen to attend it.

42 The government was obviously withdrawing its support.

By early 1873, he had crossed his own Rubicon and never looked back.

Standard might soon be in a position to eliminate their oil traffic at whim.

When such remedies failed, Rockefeller decided to buy a wig.

At this point, Gates decided to wipe out Biggar's influence forever.