Quotes About Decision

Choose. Fly or die.

Every choice had its risks, every choice its consequences. He would play the game to its conclusion.

Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.

A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.

A good plan violently executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week.

A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.

When in doubt, ATTACK!

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!

A man must know his destiny… if he does not recognize it, then he is lost. By this I mean, once, twice, or at the very most, three times, fate will reach out and tap a man on the shoulder… if he has the imagination, he will turn around and fate will point out to him what fork in the road he should take, if he has the guts, he will take it.

No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.

Never draw a gun on a man unless you intend to kill him. And believe me, if you do intend to kill him he will already know it. Then he will feel the cold breath of the tomb.

Coward: someone who in a bad situation thinks with his feet

We have that illusion that we are 'deciding' what to make a character do, in order to 'convey our message' or something like that. But, at least in my experience, you are often more like a river-rafting guide who's been paid a bonus to purposely steer your clients into the roughest possible water.

A good solution applied with vigor now is better than a perfect solution applied ten minutes later.

It's not whether you're right or wrong that's important, but how much money you make when you're right and how much you lose when you're wrong.

I'm the decider, and I decide what is best.

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Homo voluntatis cannot explain why some things that can be done should not be done.

Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.

For those who have the habit of prayer, thought is too often a mere alibi, a sly way of deciding to do what one wants to do.  Reason will always obscure what we wish to keep in the shadows.

Despite appearances, puzzling is not a solitary game: every move the puzzler makes, the puzzlemaker has made before; every piece the puzzler picks up, and picks up again, and studies and strokes, every combination he tries, and tries a second time, every blunder and every insight, each hope and each discouragement have all been designed, calculated, and decided by the other.

It just happened. As though a moment comes when it's both necessary and natural to make a decision that has long since been made.