Life is just a series of trying to make up your mind.
- Timothy Fuller
She knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit, rather than the brain, was a fatal flaw, the seed of death.
- Anne Perry
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than to polish.
- Anne Bradstreet
Decisions, particularly important ones, have always made me sleepy, perhaps because I know that I will have to make them by instinct, and thinking things out is only what other people tell me I should do.
- Lillian Hellman
To know just what has do be done, then to do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.
- William Osier
There are times when a battle decides everything, and there are times when the most insignificant thing can decide the outcome of a battle.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Decide which is the line of conduct that presents the fewest drawbacks and then follow it out as being the best one, because one never finds anything perfectly pure and unmixed, or exempt from danger.
- Niccolo Machiavelli
You wouldn’t want to be caught wearing cheap perfume, would you? Then why do you want to wear cheap perfume on your conduct?
- Margaret Culkin Banning