A man must be able to cut a knot for everything cannot be untied.
A door must either be shut or open.
If decisions were a choice between alternatives decisions would come easy. Decision is the selection and formulation of alternatives.
The tendency of modern science is to reduce proof to absurdity by continually reducing absurdity to proof.
To know just what has do be done then to do it comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.
We have the right to make our own bad decisions and live with the consequences.
There is one quality more important than know-how.... This is know-how by which we determine not only how to accomplish our purposes but what our purposes are to be.
No question is ever settled until it is settled right.
Not all of your decisions will be correct. None of us is perfect. But if you get into the habit of making decisions experience will develop your judgment to a point where more and more of your decisi...
Once the "what" is decided the "how" always follows. We must not make the "how" an excuse for not facing and accepting the "what."
Men and women everywhere must exercise deliberate selection to live wisely.
The only good thing about having your back to the wall is that it makes it really easy to choose which way you're going to go.
When one bases his life on principle 99 percent of his decisions are already made.
Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the percentage people you would be perfectly comfortable.
After a battle is over people talk a lot about how decisions were methodically reached but actually there's always a hell of a lot of groping around.
The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.
Many of life's circumstances are created by three basic choices: the disciplines you choose to keep the people you chose to be with and the laws you choose to obey.
Full maturity ... is achieved by realizing that you have choices to make.
When making tough decisions it is ok to get it wrong as long as we are working to make it right.
I get a little angry about this highhanded scrapping of the look of things. What else have we to go by? How else can the average person form an opinion of a girl's sense of values or even of her chast...