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Anger narrowed the vision and made for foolish choices.
Robert Jordan1948–2007New Spring (January 2004), Chapter 1: The Hook
- Anger
Now, you’re either on the bus or off the bus. If you’re on the bus, and you get left behind, then you’ll find it again. If you’re off the bus in the first place — then it won’t make a damn.
KKKen Kesey1935–2001As quoted in Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968), ch. 6
Everybody has the choice of being a hero or not being a hero every day of their lives … and you can either help somebody, you can be compassionate toward people, you can treat some people with dignity — or not.
George Lucasborn 1944Interview with Bill Moyers for The Mythology of Star Wars (1999)
- Character
Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one’s mind.
W. Somerset Maugham1874–1965Of Human Bondage (1915), Chapter XXXIXIn context
- Character
Ever notice that ‘what the hell’ is always the right decision?
Marilyn Monroe1926–1962
- Risk
I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.
Rosa Parks1913–2005Quiet Strength (2000)
- Fear
The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That’s the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead.
George S. Patton1885–1945
- Fear
Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.
Laurence J. Peter1919–1990Entry for September 24; as quoted in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1993), ed. Suzy Platt, Library of Congress, , p. 78
- Intelligence
When we are debating an issue, loyalty means giving me your honest opinion, whether you think I’ll like it or not. Disagreement, at this stage, stimulates me. But once a decision has been made, the debate ends. From that point on, loyalty means executing the decision as if it were your own.
Colin Powell1937–2021
It is always thus, impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, that we make our irrevocable decisions.
Marcel Proust1871–1922Remembrance of Things Past (1913-1927), Vol II: Within a Budding Grove (1919), Ch. I: “Madame Swann at Home”
One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.
Eleanor Roosevelt1884–1962You Learn by Living (1960), Foreword
- Philosophy
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919
If it were done when ’tis done, then ’twere well
It were done quickly.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Macbeth (c. 1606), Act I, Scene VII, spoken by MacbethIn context
There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat,
And we must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Julius Caesar (1599), Act IV, Scene III, spoken by BrutusIn context
- Luck
There’s small choice in rotten apples.
William Shakespeare1564–1616The Taming of the Shrew (c. 1591), Act I, Scene I, spoken by HortensioIn context