Quotes About Decision

Fear to let fall a drop and you spill a lot.

There is a time for all things; a time to preach and a time to pray, but those times have passed away; there is a time to fight, and that time has come!

Life is the acceptance of responsibilities or their evasion; it is a business of meeting obligations or avoiding them. To every man the choice is continually being offered, and by the manner of his choosing you may fairly measure him.

Statistics are no substitute for judgement.

When people don't want to come, nothing will stop them.

When I decided to go into politics I weighed the cost: I would get criticism. But I went ahead. So when the virulent criticism came I wasn't surprised. I was better able to handle it.

Reason is also choice.

No doing without some ruing.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live.

Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path ... a thing 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.

Everyone has a right to his own course of action.

Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be; custom will soon render it easy and agreeable.

Go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize after something's been done than to get permission ahead of time.

Diane von Furstenberg

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small steps.

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

Between two evils, I always picked the one I never tried before.

The follies which a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

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

No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.

We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road-the one less traveled by-offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.

Sometimes I think we can tell how important it is to risk by how dangerous it is to do so.