When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it’s best to let him run.
Abraham LincolnOnce I’ve decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.
Edmund HillaryA good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.
PlatoI haven’t been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.
Billy GrahamI actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn’t going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I’ve ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn’t want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.
J. ColeYou can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.
Winston ChurchillYou say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril.
Joan of ArcScientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man’s struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.
Richard P. FeynmanEight, as you know, is not a good number for a multi-member court.
Ruth Bader GinsburgWe choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
Khalil GibranI think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don’t know.
Bill GatesMy mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.
Ruth Bader GinsburgThe strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
George EliotYou and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I’m taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.
Harry S. TrumanIf you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.
Katharine HepburnWhere the senses fail us, reason must step in.
Galileo GalileiAs a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
Benjamin DisraeliAnything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.
Charles DickensTo compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right.
Joyce MeyerNothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
Napoleon BonaparteOur problem right now is that we’re so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people who are not going to know what to do. But within every dystopia there’s a little utopia.
Margaret AtwoodI think that when we know that we actually do live in uncertainty, then we ought to admit it; it is of great value to realize that we do not know the answers to different questions. This attitude of mind – this attitude of uncertainty – is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind which the student must first acquire.
Richard P. FeynmanIf you want to be a good strategist, you can never just go off a principle you read in a book. You need to adapt what you do to the situation; no rule of thumb is true all the time.
Robert GreeneWhat’s coming will come and we’ll just have to meet it when it does.
J. K. RowlingIn business, if you realize you’ve made a bad decision, you change it.
Richard BransonThe more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.
Robert KiyosakiMy son complains about headaches. I tell him all the time, when you get out of bed, it’s feet first!
Henny YoungmanI don’t know what ‚normal‘ means, anyway.
Karl LagerfeldPart of the reason there’s an injunction to the truth, for example, is that if you’re in a circumstance of extreme uncertainty, your best weapon, let’s say, or your best tool or your best defense is the truth, because it keeps things simpler.
Jordan PetersonI’m not a fortune-teller.
Karl LagerfeldBeautiful sentences pop into my head. Beautiful sentences that aren’t always absolutely accurate. Then, I have to choose between the beautiful sentence and being absolutely accurate. It can be a difficult choice.
Christopher HitchensThough men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.
Robert GreeneEvery man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaI thank God I’m in a position where I can pick and choose – there are some roles I don’t play.
Mr. TObviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn’t any good reason to refer to it.
Amelia EarhartI didn’t want to submit to the army and then, on the day of judgment, have God say to me, ‚Why did you do that?‘ This life is a trial, and you realize that what you do is going to be written down for Judgment Day.
Muhammad AliI am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.
Jean-Paul SartreHaving unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively.
David ByrneI don’t ever make moves under pressure.
Nipsey HussleIf I’d had good discipline, I might have gone into music.
Clint EastwoodI’m very careful about saying who would and wouldn’t go to heaven. I don’t know.
Joel OsteenMy advice is this. For Christ’s sake, don’t write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 years old, because the kids who read who are 12 years old are reading books for adults. I read all of the James Bond books when I was about 11, which was approximately the right time to read James Bond books.
Terry PratchettDon’t wait for the last judgment – it takes place every day.
Albert CamusMy family wasn’t rich, so when it comes to money, I tend to think, ‚Err on the side of caution.‘
Robert KiyosakiMany receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
Harper LeeEntrepreneurs are natural problem-solvers, which means that we always have ideas for new businesses popping into our heads. Having a lot of options is great, but sometimes it can be hard to focus on one when you are keen to move onto the next.
Richard BransonIn any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
Theodore RooseveltI want to marry Arline because I love her – which means I want to take care of her. That is all there is to it. I want to take care of her. I am anxious for the responsibilities and uncertainties of taking care of the girl I love.
Richard P. FeynmanThe serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.
ChanakyaNo one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO.
Bill GatesI shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.
Martin LutherWhen you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.
Franklin D. RooseveltI have not endorsed Trump and will not do so.
Henry KissingerWhen we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaThere’s no point in making predictions. It’s not worth speculating because nothing is set in stone and things change all the time in football. Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future.
Cristiano RonaldoFaced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.
ConfuciusI don’t want to spend money the club doesn’t have; I don’t want to hold a player that doesn’t want to stay.
Jurgen KloppWould you bet your paycheck on a weather forecast for tomorrow? If not, then why should this country bet billions on global warming predictions that have even less foundation?
Thomas SowellWisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.
Herbert HooverYou can’t have a value structure without a hierarchy. They’re the same thing because a value structure means one thing takes precedence over another.
Jordan Peterson