Quotes About Decision

If decisions were a choice between alternatives, decisions would come easy. Decision is the selection and formulation of alternatives.

You cannot have your cake and eat it.

You cannot sell the cow and sup the milk.

A door must either be shut or open.

Between two stools one sits on the ground.

When you cannot make up your mind between two evenly balanced courses of action, choose the bolder.

You cannot have it both ways.

I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side.

Of two evils, choose the less.

Of two evils, choose the prettier.

Where bad's the best, bad must be the choice.

Both choices are painful, but only one is therapeutic.

Necessity relieves us from the embarrassment of choice.

A man without decision can never be said to belong to himself; he is as a wave of the sea, or a feather in the air which every breeze blows about.

Not to decide is to decide.

Decision is a sharp knife that cuts clean and straight; indecision, a dull one that hacks and tears and leaves ragged edges behind it.

In not making the decision, you've made one. Not doing something is the same as doing it.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable, in retrospect.

Of all paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do. To find this path, and walk in it, is the one thing needful for him.

A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.

A wiser rule would be to make up your mind soberly what you want, peace or war, and then to get ready for what you want; for what we prepare for is what we shall get.

Let your own discretion be your tutor; suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

You can and you can't, You will and you won't; You'll be damn'd if you do, You'll be damn'd if you don't.

When in doubt, win the trick.