When in doubt, don’t.

There are hunters, and there are victims. By your discipline, cunning, obedience, and alertness, you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

Quitting is the easiest thing to do.

Let’s just be smart this time. I’m looking for smart.

And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don’t get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We’re always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it’s only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.

I am always wary of decisions made hastily. I am always wary of the first decision, that is, the first thing that comes to my mind if I have to make a decision. This is usually the wrong thing. I have to wait and assess, looking deep into myself, taking the necessary time.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

There are many things that I don’t understand.

The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.

The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.

To get a hold on boys you must be their friend.

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don’t interfere as long as the policy you’ve decided upon is being carried out.

I think that a president needs to have a variety of views presented. But also, there has to be a team effort, because otherwise, I think it creates a dissonance and difficulty.

You 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.

When in doubt tell the truth.

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

I’m trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It’s so easy to get turned.

At one point he decided enough was enough.

If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.

Trust, but verify.

Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

The future is called ‚perhaps‘, which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children’s children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.

What’s coming will come and we’ll just have to meet it when it does.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

The action we take and the decisions we make in this decade will have consequences far into this century. If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.

Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.

Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.

If every choice you make comes from an honest place, you’re solid, and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

He that’s secure is not safe.

Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn’t do anything to you, but since you aren’t wise, you need us who are old.

One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes… and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

Of two evils, choose neither.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

I’m not a marketing person. I don’t ask myself questions. I go by instinct.

Entrepreneurs 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.

As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

You can tell the tree by the fruit it bears. You see it through what the organization is delivering as far as a concrete program. If the tree’s fruit sours or grows brackish, then the time has come to chop it down – bury it and walk over it and plant new seeds.

A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.

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