Quotes About Decision

The heart is never neutral.

Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires ... courage.

We create our fate every day we live.

Nothing determines who we will become so much as those things we choose to ignore.

The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.

'No' and 'Yes' are words quickly said, but they need a great amount of thought before you utter them.

The opportunity is often lost by deliberating.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forgo an advantage.

In great affairs we ought to apply ourselves less to creating chances than to profiting from those that are offered.

The successful man is one who had the chance and took it.

Do not suppose opportunity will knock twice at your door.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.

Timing, degree and conviction are the three wise men in this life.

What I emphasize is for people to make choices based not on fear, but on what really gives them a sense of fulfillment.

People don't ask for facts in making up their minds. They would rather have one good, soul-satisfying emotion than a dozen facts.

Follow your heart, and you perish.

The second, sober thought of the people is seldom wrong, and always efficient.

More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown.

A question which can be answered without prejudice to the government is not a fit question to ask.

Politics is a field where action is one long second best and where the choice constantly lies between two blunders.

Politics is the science of how who gets what, when and why.

Optimism is an intellectual choice.

On the human chessboard, all moves are possible.

Man does not simply exist, but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment.