Quotes about Decision

The unpopularity of an obviously right action should not hinder the execution of an obviously right decision.

Few are guided by principle any longer, only by what they prefer. "You have to decide what's right for you," we are told. In such a climate, the only remaining virtue is tolerance, and the only philosophies that are wrong are those that believe in truth.

Society and culture are therefore not true opponents of each other. Rather society is a species of culture that persists in contradicting itself, a freely organized attempt to conceal the freedom of the organizers and the organized, an attempt to forget that we have willfully forgotten our decision to enter this or that contest and to continue in it.

You had decided to take the action, whatever it was."   "Yes."   "Yes. It involved perhaps a period of inaction."   "Of comparative inaction—yes."   "Of suspense, shall we say?"   "Yes—of suspense, certainly."   "Possibly

They knew, with the painful conviction of experience, what it meant to say, "I see and approve the better, but follow the worse.

The possibility of evil exists from the moment that a creature is made that can love and do good because it chooses and not because it is unable to do anything else. The actuality of evil exists from the moment that that choice is exercised in the wrong direction.

Avoid a remedy that is worse than the disease.

Do nothing without regard to the consequences.

Every truth has two sides it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.

I decided that I was going to leave State House, and I was going also to step up and step aside so that I give President Peter Mutharika an opportunity to run the country without my interference.

The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind.

For me, picking a college was really difficult. I wish I had had my parents there kind of supervising me. But I chose well. I did OK.