Quotes About Decision-making

War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

Good tactics can save even the worst strategy. Bad tactics will destroy even the best strategy.

All wars are planned by old men in council rooms apart.

No ruler should put troops into the field merely to gratify his own spleen; no general should fight a battle simply out of pique.

So in all human affairs one notices, if one examines them closely, that it is impossible to remove one inconvenience without another emerging.

The art of giving orders is not to try to rectify the minor blunders and not be swayed by petty doubts.

There are times when a corps commander's life does not count.

I never knew what to do with a paper except to put it in a side pocket or pass it to a clerk who understood it better than I did.

People do not make wars; governments do.

No president can easily commit our sons and daughters to war.

A wrong war brings wrong; so does a right war.

The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.

To lead uninstructed people to war is to throw them away.

I saw clearly that war was upon us when I learned that my young men had been secretly buying ammunition.

An army abroad is of little use unless there are prudent counsels at home. [Lat., Parvi enim sunt foris arma, nisi est consilium domi.]

I saw clearly how those who saved the state so heroically and courageously in the War of Independence would be capable of bringing a catastrophe upon it if they are given the chance in normal times.

I can tell you this: If I'm ever in a position to call the shots, I'm not going to rush to send somebody else's kids into a war.

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

My mouth always worked a whole lot faster than my good sense.

He set the suitcases in the back then tossed her the keys. "You drive." She repressed a smile as she climbed behind the wheel. "With each passing day, your reasons for wanting a wife become clearer.

No is a complete sentence and so often we forget that. When we don't want to do something we can simply smile and say no. We don't have to explain ourselves, we can just say "No". Early on my journey I found developing the ability to say no expanded my ability to say yes and really mean it. My early attempts at saying no were often far from graceful but with practice even my no came from a place of love. Love yourself enough to be able to say yes or no.

stop and consider that there is always, always the other road to choose, even if it seems to be nothing more than an unpaved path in the middle of nowhere? On

we choose our actions at the moment when we must

Do you wake up one day and say "hey honey, let's have a baby goat and guava jam business"?