Abraham Lincoln Decision Quotes

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

- Abraham Lincoln

Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.

- Abraham Lincoln

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

- Abraham Lincoln

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

- Abraham Lincoln

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing

- Abraham Lincoln

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

- Abraham Lincoln

Democracy is government of, by and for the people

- Abraham Lincoln

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

- Abraham Lincoln

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

- Abraham Lincoln

Every man's happiness is his own responsibility.

- Abraham Lincoln

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.

- Abraham Lincoln

Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.

- Winston Churchill

I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.

- B.F. Skinner

I think a lot more decisions are made on serendipity than people think. Things come across their radar screens and they jump at them.

- Jay W. Lorsch

Our most important decisions are made while we are thinking about something else.

- Mason Cooley

Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.

- Sophocles

Maturity involves being honest and true to oneself, making decisions based on a conscious internal process, assuming responsibility for one's decisions, having healthy relationships with others and developing one's own true gifts. It involves thinking about one's environment and deciding what one will and won't accept.

- Mary Pipher

You can't talk about a kind of democracy unless those who are affected by decisions make those decisions whether the institutions in question be the welfare department, the university, the factory, the farm, the neighborhood, the country.

- Casey Hayden

A woman does not have to make decisions based on the need to survive. She can cut through issues, call shots as she sees them.... Many bad decisions are made by men in government because it is good for them personally to make bad public decisions.

- Dianne Feinstein

Most of my decisions in life seem absent-minded but inevitable.

- Mason Cooley