Decisive Quotes

We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly; let him rejoice.
Pope Paul VI

Faith, Great, God

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.
Theodore Roosevelt

Life, Character, Long

When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive.
George W. Bush

Fire, Action, Hit

I'm a rather decisive type.
P. J. O'Rourke

War remains the decisive human failure.
John Kenneth Galbraith

War, Failure, Human

The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.
Andre Gide

Life, Often, Actions

The masses are the decisive element, they are the rock on which the final victory of the revolution will be built.
Rosa Luxemburg

Rock, Revolution, Victory

Iraq is no diversion. It is a place where civilization is taking a decisive stand against chaos and terror, we must not waver.
George W. Bush

Place, Against, Stand

Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do.
Joseph Wood Krutch

Science, Cannot, Away

The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.
Franz Kafka

Spiritual, Nothing, Human

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.
Karl Von Clausewitz

Great, Aim, Force

Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.
Mao Zedong

War, Important, Weapons

When men cut jobs, they're seen as decisive. When women do, they're vindictive.
Carly Fiorina

Women, Men, Seen

But the cure for most obstacles is, Be decisive.
George Weinberg

Obstacles, Cure

In my view what you can't argue for is a system that is neither decisive nor proportional and can be indecisive and disproportionate at the same time.
William Hague

Time, Same, System

There is an overabundance of rational reasons to say no to factory-farmed meat: It is the No. 1 cause of global warming, it systematically forces tens of billions of animals to suffer in ways that would be illegal if they were dogs, it is a decisive factor in the development of swine and avian flus, and so on.
Jonathan Safran Foer

Cause, Ways, Dogs

I think President Obama could have handled politics and policies differently. But he has been decisive, strong, and consistent - important qualities in a president. Mitt Romney is indeed an Etch A Sketch, the antithesis of leadership.
Eliot Spitzer

Leadership, Politics, Strong

Direct threats require decisive action.
Dick Cheney

Action, Direct, Threats

Mostly the problems when I was down were caused by myself. There were times when I was not responsible enough or decisive enough.
Novak Djokovic

Down, Enough, Problems

One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.
Max Weber

Feeling, Passion, Sense

I fail to see the issue that will shock the people of this great country of ours into some decisive action.
Graham Nash

Great, Country, Action

Most recently, terrorist forces have captured Israeli soldiers and fired rockets into Israeli cities - both unprovoked. These acts of aggression deserve the rapid and decisive response they received.
John Boehner

Both, Soldiers, Deserve

I state in my book 'Become Your Own Matchmaker,' confidence is the key to any endeavor. Women don't realize that when they do things they love and are passionate about - their confidence soars. Men are attracted to women who feel happy and decisive about life.
Patti Stanger

Life, Love, Women

You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference.
Chris Evert

Confidence, Game, Play

It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip.
Eugenio Montale

Often, Language, Cut

This communication alone, by the comparison of the antagonisms, rivalries, movements which give birth to decisive moments, permits the evolution of the soul, whereby a man realizes himself on earth. It is impossible to be concerned with anything else in art.
Robert Delaunay

Art, Alone, Give

Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent.
Marya Mannes

Successful, Talent, Arrogance

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.
Robert Wilson Lynd

War, Human, Short

To help U.S. workers, farmers and businesses, and America's long-term economic security, Congress should take decisive action to bring about fair trade with China, instead of squandering this opportunity on a weak Republican bill.
Joe Baca

Help, America, Action

Like all social theories, internationalism must seek its basis in the economic and technical fields; here are to be found the most profound and the most decisive factors in the development of society.
Christian Lous Lange

Society, Here, Social

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