Full maturity ... is achieved by realizing that you have choices to make.
Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.
As a man thinketh so is he and as a man chooseth so is he.
In forty hours I shall be in battle with little information and on the spur of the moment will have to make the most momentous decisions. But I believe that one's spirit enlarges with responsibility...
Continually one faces the horrible matter of making decisions. The solution ... is as far as possible to avoid conscious rational decisions and choices simply to do what you find yourself doing to...
Pick battles big enough to matter small enough to win.
The best we can do is size up the chances calculate the risks involved estimate our ability to deal with them and then make our plans with confidence.
You wouldn't want to be caught wearing cheap perfume would you? Then why do you want to wear cheap perfume on your conduct?
You must not change one thing one pebble one grain of sand until you know what good and evil will follow on that act.
A decision is an action you must take when you have information so incomplete that the answer does not suggest itself.
Better to be without logic than without feeling.
Reason with most people means their own opinions.
Logic pervades the world the limits of the world are also the limits of logic.
A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of sudden impulse and accident than of that reason of which we so much boast.
A power greater than any human being helped make this decision.
When possible make the decisions now even if action is in the future. A revised decision usually is better than one reached at the last moment.
So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties it may be too late...
It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have...
Our danger is not too few but too many options ... to be puzzled by innumerable alternatives.
It is better to arm and strengthen your hero than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.
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