Quotes about Decisiveness

If your mother tells you to do a thing, it is wrong to reply that you won't. It is better and more becoming to intimate that you will do as she bids you, and then afterward act quietly in the matter according to the dictates of your best judgment.

As I went through this period one night I picked up an article entitled The Children of Vietnam, and I read it. And after reading that article, I said to myself, Never again will I be silent on an issue that is destroying the soul of our nation and destroying thousands and thousands of little children in Vietnam. I came to the conclusion that there is an existential moment in your life when you must decide to speak for yourself; nobody else can speak for you.

You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch. Yes. It's sort of what we have instead of God.

Good administrators make immediate choices." "Acceptable choices?" "They usually can be made to work. A bad administrator, on the other hand, hesitates, diddles around, asks for committees, for research and reports. Eventually, he acts in ways which create serious problems.

Also, don't be timid about your conclusions. Sometimes abandoning what you're working on is the right move, even if you've already put in a lot of effort. Don't throw good time after bad work.

The time is always right to do the right thing.

I'm not one of those politicians, to my probably discredit, who thinks very far ahead. It has to feel right to me and not be about a careful plot and plan.

Knowledge is potential power. It transforms itself into actual power the moment you decisively act on it.

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.

I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between.

Don't put a question mark where God has put a period.