Quotes About Decision-making

We must turn all of our educational efforts to training our children for the choices which will confront them... The child who is to choose wisely must be healthy in mind and body. The children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

I can't think about that right now. If I do, I'll go crazy. I'll think about that tomorrow.

Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement; and it is better to be driven out of your senses with thinking which of two things you ought to do than to do nothing whatever, and be utterly uninteresting to all the world.

No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.

Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother and how many children she will have. Regardless of what man's attitude may be, that problem is hers — and before it can be his, it is hers alone. She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe is born. As it is the right neither of man nor the state to coerce her into this ordeal, so it is her right to decide whether she will endure it.

The best contraceptive is the word "no" repeated frequently.

The best contraceptive is the word no — repeated frequently.

Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd.

In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.

Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas.

To those waiting with bated breath for that favorite media catchphrase, the U-turn, I have only this to say, 'You turn if you want; the lady's not for turning.

Do you know, one of the greatest problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas? Now, thoughts and ideas, that interests me.

In politics, if you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman

Give me six men and true, and I will get policies through.

Politicians should resist the temptation to consider themselves experts in fields where they have no experience.

Dad once defined leadership as the art of persuading people to do what they should have done in the first place. If they bullheadedly refuse to take this advice, there is not much the leader can do, in a free society.

Too many people say to their brokers, I can't deal with this. Take my money. Do what you want. That's the worst attitude you can have.

A lot of wisdom should go into choosing who to love you, and more to choose who to rule you…

There's a difference between owning your choices and blaming yourself.

Opportunity cost is no joke. Every choice has a price. Everything you say yes to means you're saying no to something else. Translation? Each time you pick up your brain-draining gadget and say YES to watching another cat video, you're saying NOPE to ever reaching your biggest and most important long-term goals.

Discovering what you really want saves you endless confusion and wasted energy. Stuart Wilde

To intentionally pass on opportunity is to intentionally pass on living.

Of all the passions fear weakens judgment most.

A consumer-finance agency is a good thing, but it would do well to teach consumers a simple lesson: if you don't understand the deal you're making, don't make it.