Quotes About Decision

The reason of a resolution is more to be considered than the resolution itself.

The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do.

From my time in Health I know that choice empowers people lives.

Después de todo, a mi modo, estoy aquí para guiarte. El problema es que la palabra «guía» tiene connotaciones positivas que pueden ser incorrectas. Puede que tenga que dirigirte hacia dónde no quieras ir.

Once, he reminded himself, I studied hard to learn to save lives. Now I must educate myself in how to take one.

In a way, he'd been triangulated, in much the same way one finds his location when lost in the woods. Three pillars: who he was, who he'd become, who he needed to be.

The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thicksighted: thence proceeds mawkishness, and the thousand bitters which those men I speak of must necessarily taste in going over the following pages.

Kalau anda bertekad untuk tidak mau termangu-mangu dan ragu-ragu lagi saat suara hati anda menyuruh anda untuk bertindak, artinya anda sudah menerima kunci restu.

In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everybody gets busy on the proof.

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

That is the night I made a commitment to myself that I would pursue a life in public affairs.

You've got to make a stand, show a bit of class, all you've got to do is say no, but you know you're going to hate yourself in the morning.

was written before it became too embarrassing for the Republican party to hold its 1972 convention in San Diego, and I preferred not to follow the convention to Miami Beach.

So Donald Trump and Sarah Palin are both drowning in the pool right in front of you, and you know there's only going to be a minute or two before one or both of them goes under. Here's the question: What kind of sandwich do you make?

Julius Caesar: "There is a tide in the affairs of men, / Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; / Omitted, all the voyage of their life / Is bound in shallows and in miseries." He thought

if you were to take account of everything . . . , you would never do anything. It is better to have a brave heart and endure one half of the terrors we dread than to [calculate] all of the terrors and suffer nothing at all. . . . Big things are won by big dangers.

A story is about a single moment in a character's life when a definitive choice is made, after which nothing is the same.

My snobbery made me do it.

I went to Harvard because I got in. This is not the best reason to pick a college,

Liberty is not an Idea belonging to Volition, or preferring; but to the Person having the Power of doing, or forbearing to do, according as the Mind shall chuse or direct.

If we will disbelieve everything, because we cannot certainly know all things, we shall do muchwhat as wisely as he who would not use his legs, but sit still and perish, because he had no wings to fly.