Quotes About Decision

I do not want to make this charge. I do not see how it can succeed. I would not make it now but that General Lee has ordered it and expects it.

One minute can decide the outcome of the battle, one hour - the outcome of the campaign, and one day - the fate of the country.

Any fool can start a war, and once he's done so, even the wisest of men are helpless to stop it - especially if it's a nuclear war.

Wars are not won by fighting battles; wars are won by choosing battles

I think this is a very hard choice, but the price - we think the price is worth it.

I did not come here for the purpose of surrendering my command.

The trouble with free elections is that you never know how they are going to turn out.

The war correspondent has his stake - his life - in his own hands, and he can put it on this horse or that horse, or he can put it back in his pocket at the very last minute.

The profoundest truth of war is that the issue of battle is usually decided in the minds of the opposing commanders, not in the bodies of their men.

That man made me miss my destiny.

Quit thinking about what Bobby Lee's gonna do to us and start thinking about what we're going to do to him.

A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep him from doing it.

Decision making can sometimes seem like inner civil war.

Ponder and deliberate before you make a move.

Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision, to the releasing of a trigger.

Move not unless you see an advantage; use not your troops unless there is something to be gained; fight not unless the position is critical.

Buy when the cannons are firing, and sell when the trumpets are blowing

War does not decide who is right but who is left.

I have found that the Way of the samurai is death. This means that when you are compelled to choose between life and death, you must quickly choose death.

He who wishes to fight must first count the cost

Ares (The God of War) hates those who hesitate.

I engage and after that I see what to do.

Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.

Wars are just to those to whom they are necessary.