Quotes About Decision

Life is always at some turning point.

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he is buying.

I do not choose to run for President in 1928.

Betwixt the devil and the deap sea.

There's small choice in rotten apples.

When to elect there is but one, Tis Hobson's Choice; take that or none.

For many are called, but few are chosen.

If Columbus had had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock.

Even now we can draw back. But once we cross that little bridge, we must settle things by the sword.

There's nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos.

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by traffic from both sides.

The man who sees both sides of an issue is very likely on the fence or up a tree.

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is a temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

Choice of attention, to pay attention to this and ignore that, is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer.

Conscience does make cowards of us all.

The only man who can change his mind is the man who's got one.

Soon after a hard decision something inevitably occurs to cast doubt. Holding steady against that doubt usually proves the decision.

As to moral courage, I have very rarely met with the two o'clock in the morning kind. I mean unprepared courage, that which is necessary on an unexpected occasion, and which, in spite of the most unforeseen events, leaves full freedom of judgement and decision.

He who is afraid of every nettle should not piss in the grass.

I have often though morality may perhaps consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

Prudence which degenerates into timidity is very seldom the path to safety.

The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.