Quotes About Decision

Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgement of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you're going to do about it.

God asks no man whether he will accept life. This is not the choice. You must take it. The only question is how.

When I decided to go into politics I weighed the costs. I would get criticism. But I went ahead. So when virulent criticism came I wasn't surprised. I was better able to handle it.

Sudden acquaintance brings repentance.

It is much easier to do and die than it is to reason why.

Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.

Doing what is right isn't the problem; it's knowing what is right.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Middle age is when you have a choice of two temptations and choose the one that will get you home earlier.

We are now at the point where we must decide whether we are to honour the concept of a plural society which gains strength through diversity, or whether we are to have bitter fragmentation that will result in perpetual tension and strife.

Early in life I had to choose between arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.

We're eyeball to eyeball, and the other fellow just blinked.

A bachelor is a souvenir of some woman who found a better one at the last minute.

The best of a bad bargain.

Curfew must not ring tonight.

My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives.

A study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy anything is last year.

A decision is the action an executive must take when he has information so incomplete that the answer does not suggest itself.

When you buy, use your eyes and your mind, not your ears.

'Rich by nature, poor by policy' might be written over Canada's door.

Not necessarily conscription, but conscription if necessary.

It might be termed the Law of Triviality. Briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in adverse proportion to the sum involved.

Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.

Along this tree From root to crown Ideas flow up And vetoes down.