559 quotes found
“Of two evils choose the less.”
“Of two evils choose the prettier.”
“Where bad's the best bad must be the choice.”
“Both choices are painful but only one is therapeutic.”
“When you have to make a choice and don't make it that is in itself a choice.”
“A man without decision can never be said to belong to himself he is as a wave of the sea or a feather in the air which every breeze blows about.”
“Nothing is so exhausting as indecision and nothing is so futile.”
“Decision is a sharp knife that cuts clean and straight indecision a dull one that hacks and tears and leaves ragged edges behind it.”
“In not making the decision you've made one. Not doing something is the same as doing it.”
“There is a time when we must firmly choose the course we will follow or the relentless drift of events will make the decision for us.”
“Of all paths a man could strike into there is at any given moment a best path 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 needfu...”
“No man who has not sat in the assemblies of men can know the light odd and uncertain ways in which decisions are often arrived at.”
“A man must be able to cut a knot for everything cannot be untied.”
“Necessity is not an established fact but an interpretation.”
“Nothing is more difficult and therefore more precious than to be able to decide.”
“Destiny is not a matter of chance it is a matter of choice it is not a thing to be waited for it is a thing to be achieved.”
“A wiser rule would be to make up your mind soberly what you want peace or war and then to get ready for what you want for what we prepare for is what we shall get.”
“Once a decision was made I did not worry about it afterward.”
“The last if not the greatest of the human freedoms: to choose their own attitude in any given circumstance.”
