Hard Decisions Quotes

The most difficult of decisions are often not the ones in which we cannot determine the correct course; rather the ones in which we are certain of the path but fear the journey.

Deal with the Devil if the Devil has a constituency - and don't complain about the heat.

To have a choice at all is to be free - even when the choice is between two terrible things.

To be successful in business, you have to be ruthless.

There are no good options in the midst of a crisis.

It's not easy to do the unpopular thing.

I actually don't hope for a legacy. I think that it impedes your ability to make the hard decisions if you sit around saying, 'How will this affect my legacy?'

Commanders-in-chief make really tough decisions.

Democracy is rarely easy, nor swift.

You give up your childhood. You miss proms and games and high-school events, and people say it's awful... I say it was a good trade. You miss something but I think I gained more than I lost.

If you go back to any period in India's history, all the hard decisions this country had to take were taken when the Congress was in power.

Sometimes hard decisions have to be made, and sometimes wonderful decisions have to be made. You've got to be willing to make them all.

It is true that some off-label drug use is based on very unsettled science and has more risks. But medicine - and not just cancer care - involves lots of hard choices. And the more serious the disorder, often the more likely it is that for every right and wrong treatment choice there are many other practical decisions painted in shades of gray.

If you don't define the problem you'll never reach a painful solution.

One of the toughest things about life is making choices. I had a hard time saying 'no' to a bunch of other excellent possibilities.

To solve big problems you have to be willing to do unpopular things.

To run a successful business, you have to be tough.

You have to make some hard decisions when you're speaker.

It's hard to edit. It's hard to stay focused. And yet, we know we'll only do our best work if we stay focused. And so, you know, the hardest decisions we made are all the things not to work on, frankly.

I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.

Truth or tact? You have to choose. Most times they're not compatible. It's so hard to draw the line.

All ethical people strive to choose "right" over "easy" when confronted by situations that force them to choose one or the other.

My responsibility is to make judgments about hard, complex issues that I believe to be right.

Every president needs an S. O. B.

When there aren't any smart decisions, I suppose you just have to pick the stupid decision you like best.