Decisively Quotes
71 quotes by 65 authors
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Hollow commitments to action in the future are insufficient. Deferring difficult issues must not be tolerated. Our children and grandchildren expect us to speak and…
— Jenny Shipley
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Knowledge is potential power. It transforms itself into actual power the moment you decisively act on it.
— Robin Sharma
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If inflation is the genie, then deflation is the ogre that must be fought decisively,
— Christine Lagarde
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Brevity is the soul of command. Too much talking suggests desperation on the part of the leader. Speak shortly, decisively and to the point–and couch…
— Cyrus the Great
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A business of high principle generates greater drive and effectiveness because people know that they can do the right thing decisively and with confidence.
— Marvin Bower
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When you have shot and killed a man you have in some measure clarified your attitude toward him. You have given a definite answer to…
— R. A. Lafferty
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Winning does not tempt that man. This is how he grows: by being defeated, decisively, by greater and greater beings.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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The idea that 'preaching the Gospel' has nothing to do with sex and that 'preaching about sex' has nothing to do with the Gospel betrays…
— Christopher West
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If the body can respond so decisively to music, it must in some sense be music.
— Don G. Campbell
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Think before you act and then act decisively. Fortune favors the brave.
— Brian Tracy
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By letting go of yourself, leaving yourself and everything yours behind so decisively that nothing more is left of you but a purposeless tension .
— Eugen Herrigel
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To predispose our mind to welcome the Lord who, as we say in the Creed, one day will come to judge the living and the…
— Pope John Paul II
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If any value is deeply evolutionarily familiar, it is reproductive success. If any value is truly unnatural, if there is one thing that humans (and…
— Satoshi Kanazawa
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For the first time a British force had met, held and decisively defeated a major Japanese attack, and followed this up by driving the enemy…
— William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim
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Those who are victorious plan effectively and change decisively. They are like a great river that maintains its course but adjusts its flow...they have form…
— Sun Tzu
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Mary properly bore the name of Virgin, and possessed to the full all the attributes of purity. She was a virgin in both body and…
— Gregory Palamas
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Let us seize the special opportunity that is ours to act boldly and decisively at a time when the eyes of our fellow citizens, both…
— Bob Taft
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I do not remember having felt, as a boy, any passion for mathematics, and such notions as I may have had of the career of…
— G. H. Hardy
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The long bitter years of the Cold War are over. America and her allies have won; totally, decisively, and overwhelmingly....So thank you SAC. Job well…
— Colin Powell
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Lest conservatives be too proud, it's worth recalling that conservatism's rise was decisively enabled by liberalism's weakness.
— William Kristol
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