Quotes about Decision-making

Politics is like football if you see daylight, go through the hole.

I do know that waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered question, lifting the heart to God about it whenever it intrudes upon one's thoughts. Its easy to talk oneself into a decision that has no permanence — easier sometimes than to wait patiently.

Choices will continually be necessary and -- let us not forget -- possible. Obedience to God is always possible. It is a deadly error to fall into the notion that when feelings are extremely strong we can do nothing but act on them.

A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.

Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.

Investigate carefully before you invest. Spend as much time researching the investment as you spend earning the money.

Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.

It doesn't really matter what time it is if you haven't determined what to do with your time.

Leaders are made one response at a time.

There was no active, conscious decision-making point, just a gradual realization over time that I'm very happy minus children and marriage.

Nevertheless, Rhetoric is useful, because the true and the just are naturally superior to their opposites, so that, if decisions are improperly made, they must owe their defeat to their own advocates; which is reprehensible.

For it is about our actions that we deliberate and inquire, and all our actions have a contingent character; hardly any of them are determined by necessity.