Chuck Hagel Quotes

Those who will not reason, perish in the act. Those who will not act, perish for that reason.

The wise does at once what the fool does at last.

What you know today can affect what you do tomorrow. But what you know today cannot affect what you did yesterday.

The future doesn't exist. The only thing that exists is now and our memory of what happened in the past. But because we invented the idea of a future, we're the only animal that realized we can affect the future by what we do today.

If people are going to do things which have certain consequences that they would rather avoid, they should do whatever they need to avoid the consequences.

In life, as in chess, forethought wins.

You try to make the decisions that you think are best in realtime.

Every action and decision we take – or don’t – ripples into the future. For the first time we have the capability, the technology, and the knowledge to direct these ripples.

You do what you do. Or you do what you have to do. I don't know how to explain it better. I think that in the moment, you can't see connections, but sometimes afterwards you do.

Daddy always said that an option that you know to have a bad outcome is only a fool's option, i.e., not an option at all. And I liked to think that Daddy hadn't raised a fool.

This isn't just 'the way things are.' This is the way you made them. This is the result of your choices, your actions. Yours.

Our actions are in our own hands, but the consequences of them are not. Remember that, my dear, and think twice before you do anything.

I think it's important to know what you're going to do with the ball before it comes to you. So you're always thinking before hand and when the ball comes to you to can make the pass straight away.

Before I make an action, think about the consequences. ... Any decision I make is a heavy decision.

Every tomorrow is determined by every today.

He who picks up one end of a stick picks up the other. He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.

Every action we take has consequences, Vin," Kelsier said. "I've found that in both Allomancy and life, the person who can best judge the consequences of their actions will be the most successful.

Study the situation thoroughly, go over in your imagination the various courses of action possible to you and the consequences which can and may follow from each course. Pick out the course which gives the most promise and go ahead.

When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action.

You can't think your way out of a box; you've got to act.

You must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act.

In every affair consider what precedes and what follows, and then undertake it

Science is the knowledge of Consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another: by which, out of that we can presently do, we know how to do something else when we will, or the like, another time

Every choice that we makes creates consequences, consequences in the lives of others and we experience them in ourselves, those same consequences, every choice that we make. And by the way the choices that you might think are the most important are not always the most important.

The world is in the condition it is in because of you, and the choices you have made - or failed to make. (Not to decide is to decide.) The Earth is in the shape it's in because of you, and the choices you have made - or failed to make. Your own life is the way it is because of you, and the choices you have made - or failed to make.