Quotes About Decision

You can't steal second base and keep one foot on first.

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

Often greater risk is involved in postponement than in making a wrong decision.

And all that you are sorry for is what you haven't done.

The only things you regret are the things you didn't do.

Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.

To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult of all.

He who deliberates fully before taking a step will spend his entire life on one leg.

He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

He who hesitates is last.

The emotions are not always subject to reason ... but they are always subject to action. When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.

Give way to the Better if way to the Better there be, It exacts a full look at the Worst.

If you cry "Forward," you must make plain in what direction to go.

You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do-or don't do.

He who hunts two hares leaves one and loses the other.

To govern is to choose.

He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.

As well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.

Our actions are the springs of our happiness or misery.

The golden rule is of no use whatsoever unless you realize that it is your move.

One white foot - buy him: Two white feet - try him; Three white feet - look well about him; Four white feet - go without him.

We're all trying to figure out what's next, what's best for our families, what's best for ourselves, and there's a certain sort of comfort in knowing that you're not in it by yourself.

Changing from biochemistry to law was easy because I was rubbish in the laboratory. I could never decide how much to put in a test tube because I'm not very good at maths.

It appalls me that the people who decide what Americans will be watching on the tube have never been to the United States. Not the real United States.