Decisive Quotes

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

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.

Our idea of nature is increasingly being determined by scientific developments. And they have become decisive for our image of reality.

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

The development of our human resources is an area in which we need to do well as it is decisive in determining the success of our diversification programme.

War remains the decisive human failure.

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.

That Germany was so immensely strong and Austria so dependent upon German strength that the word and will of Germany would at the critical moment be decisive with Austria.

Direct threats require decisive action.

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

Read Churchill, he tells you how crucial was the Greek role in your decisive desert victory over Rommel.

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.

In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.

But the cure for most obstacles is, Be decisive.

I'm happy with the vote and the support. I'm very glad that it is so decisive. It will enable me to be a president for all of the people.

The real reform Japan needs is decisive politics when we face issues that need to be decided.

Presidents with strong nerves are decisive. They don't balk at unpopular decisions. They are willing to make people angry. Bush had strong nerves. Clinton, who passed up a chance to eliminate Osama bin Laden, did not. Obama is a people pleaser, a trait not normally associated with nerves of steel.

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

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

Decisive action has been taken on the home front with passage of the USA Patriot Act, which has strengthened the hand of law enforcement agencies to stop terrorists before they can act.

It's important to score some goals and make the decisive pass for my club.

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.

The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.

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

Always you find that the more decisive event wins so my father's sort of annual decisiveness which came upon him on the Day of Atonement every year, he suddenly remembered that he was Jewish.

Clint Eastwood. Here's a guy who's been involved in so many movies, lots of them masterpieces, and now he's a director. I just like everything I know about him. He's very decisive, he makes up his mind real quick.

I'm a rather decisive type.

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

The range of choice open to the individual is not the decisive factor in determining the degree of human freedom, but what can be chosen and what is chosen by the individual.

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