Decide promptly, but never give your reasons. Your decisions may be right, but your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Decide - Decision Quotes
It is the advantage and the nature of the strong that they can bring crucial issues to the fore and take a clear position regarding them. The weak always have to choose between alternatives that are not their own.
The demands of modern living are so exacting that men and women everywhere must exercise deliberate selection to live wisely.
Apollonius impressed on me the need to make decisions for myself instead of depending on the hazards of chance, and never for a moment to leave reason out of sight.
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
There is nothing more to be esteemed than a manly firmness and decision of character. I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what, in given circumstances, is to be done, and does it.
If someone tells you he is going to make a “realistic decision,” you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad.
The die is cast.
If you spend too much time warming up, you’ll miss the race. If you don’t warm up at all, you may not finish the race.
The percentage of mistakes in quick decisions is no greater than in long-drawn-out vacillation, and the effect of decisiveness itself ‘makes things go’ and creates confidence.
