Quotes About Decision-making

As a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing,but does only and wholly what he must do.

It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.

Weapons are instruments of fear; they are not a wise man's tools. He uses them only when he has no choice.

Away with the cant of 'Measures not men!'-the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along.

For there is one thing we must never forget... the majority can never replace the man. And no more than a hundred empty heads make one wise man will an heroic decision arise from a hundred cowards.

The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.

The man fitted for affairs and authority never considers individuals, but things and their consequences.

Being a president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep on riding or he is swallowed.

I didn't feel the need to have a lot of yes-men standing around me. As Mitchell Sharp once put it, the bigger the staff, the smaller the minister.

The art of governing is a great metier, requiring the whole man, and it is therefore not well for a ruler to have too strong tendencies for other affairs.

A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat.

Why was I condemned to live in a democracy where every fool's vote is equal to a sensible man's?

There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.

At some point in your career, someone is going to tell you, "This stove is hot. Do not touch this stove." And the weird thing is, you'll want to touch it. But resist that urge, man.

Adult women are able to make decisions about their own lives' course no less than men are.

Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.

Occasionally, a man must rise above principles.

A man or a ruler should always take up a task after thoroughly considering its consequences. Otherwise fate also cannot protect his wealth.

A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.

The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind bravery if forethought.

The girl with a future avoids a man with a past.

The man who gives his own decisions priority over society is a criminal.

Who, then, will govern? The answer must be, Man - for we have no angels in the shape of men, as yet, who are willing to take charge of our political affairs.

There are men who would do anything, asleep, and I'm not sure what stops them when they wake. I do not know how they draw the line.