Tough Choices Quotes:

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

- Theodore Roosevelt

source: Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.4, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Make The Right Choice, Making Tough Decisions

Leadership demands that we make tough choices.

- Alan Autry

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Choices, Demand, Tough, Tough Choices

You win by working hard, making tough decisions and building coalitions.

- John Engler

topic: Work, Winning, Decision, Making Tough Decisions, Tough Decisions

You cannot make progress without making decisions.

- Jim Rohn

topic: Decision, Progress, Making Decisions, Making Tough Decisions, Decisions Made

It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

- Jim Rohn

topic: Inspirational, Greatness, What Matters, Making Tough Decisions, Decisions Made

If you have a 2 or 3 year old who is not talking, you must start an early intervention program. The worst thing you can do with an autistic 3 year old is to do nothing.

- Temple Grandin

source: "The Most Inspiring Bits of Temple Grandin’s Reddit AMA" by Emily Shire, www.thedailybeast.com. November 17, 2014.

topic: Motivational, Change, Positive, Make The Right Choice, Make The Right Decision

The worst thing you can do is nothing.

- Terry Pratchett

topic: Motivational, Change, Positive, Make The Right Choice, Make The Right Decision

The best thing you can do is follow your dreams

- The Rev

topic: Dream, Follow Your Dreams, Make The Right Choice, Make The Right Decision, Making Tough Decisions

A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.

- Rita Mae Brown

topic: Choices, Decision, Peacefulness, Making Tough Decisions, Wrong Decision

Those who avoid the tough choices of life, live a life they never chose.

- Robert Breault

topic: Being Yourself, Choices, Tough, Being Authentic, Tough Choices

The only acceptable response to the threat of lethal violence is immediate and savage counterattack. If you resist, you just may get killed. If you don't resist you almost certainly will get killed. It is a tough choice, but there is only one right answer.

- Jeff Cooper

topic: Choices, Savages, Answers, Tough Choices

Life is a matter of really tough choices.

- Joe Biden

source: "One-on-one with Joe Biden". Interview with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. December 19, 2010.

topic: Choices, Matter, Tough, Tough Choices

Real vision demands that we make tough choices. Real vision is responsible and it is paid for.

- Mike Easley

topic: Real, Choices, Vision, Tough Choices

I think most people are not willing to make the tough choices.

- Rick Scott

topic: Thinking, People, Choices, Tough Choices

We all faced painful ethical challenges before we even knew how to spell our names. There were tough choices. Tradeoffs. Confusing signals regarding how to live one's life. And here we are now, today, still struggling. Still trying to sort things out. Still trying to work our way through life effectively. About the only thing that has changed is the scope of the problem. There's more at stake now. And we're in a position, as grownups, to do a lot more-good or bad-for ourselves, our organization, our world. But we still must wrestle with our imperfect ethics.

- Price Pritchett

topic: Pain, Struggle, Our World, Tough Choices

In the early years, I was able to accommodate most of the requests and favors that came my way, but as the requests multiplied, I had to make tough choices because the numbers were more than I could handle.

- LaVell Edwards

source: Source: universe.byu.edu

topic: Years, Numbers, Choices, Tough Choices

It was a tough choice [of PM]. I voted for a Scotsman.

- Michael Gove

topic: Pms, Choices, Tough, Scotsmen, Tough Choices

Public deliberation is a means by which citizens make tough choices about basic purposes and directions for their communities and their country.

- F. David Mathews

topic: Country, Mean, Choices, Purpose And Direction, Tough Choices

ʺWhere is it?ʺ I asked. ʺLexington, Kentucky.ʺ ʺOh for Godʹs sake,ʺ I moaned. ʺWhy not the Bahamas? Or the Corn Palace?ʺ Dimitri tried to hide a smile. It might have been at my expense, but if Iʹd lightened his mood, I was grateful. ʺIf we leave right now, we can reach him before morning.ʺ I glanced around. ʺTough choice. Leave all this for electricity and plumbing?ʺ Now Sydney grinned. ʺAnd no more marriage proposals.ʺ ʺAnd weʹll probably have to fight Strigoi,ʺ added Dimitri. I jumped to my feet. ʺHow soon can we go?ʺ

- Richelle Mead

topic: Morning, Grateful, Fighting, Marriage Proposal, Lexington

Yes, NFL players deserve to be paid well. Unfortunately, economic realities are forcing everyone to make tough choices and the NFL is no different. These are not easy negotiations, but the outcome can be positive. If both sides give a little, everyone, including fans, will get a lot and the game will improve through innovation. Even in difficult economic times, a new CBA presents us with the opportunity to secure the future of our game.

- Roger Goodell

source: "Read Roger Goodell's Letter To NFL Fans" by Dashiell Bennett, www.businessinsider.com. January 3, 2011.

topic: Opportunity, Player, Reality, Nfl Players, Tough Choices

Higher taxes is the road to ruin. We must and we will shrink our government, and that means making some tough choices, tightening our belts.

- Chris Christie

topic: Mean, Government, Choices, Tough Choices

Life is about making tough choices. Sometimes you have to go where your career is going.

- Bill Maher

topic: Careers, Choices, Tough, Tough Choices

Taxes shouldn't be higher; they should be fairer. We must be a party that's disciplined. We must make tough choices.

- Vince Cable

topic: Party, Choices, Tough, Tough Choices

The really tough choices...don't center upon right versus wrong. They involve right versus right. They are genuine dilemmas precisely because each side is firmly rooted in one of our basic, core values.

- Rushworth Kidder

topic: Choices, Sides, Tough, Core Values, Tough Choices

It is a tough choice between ending up in the cold or ending up in a fiery blast.

- Saul Perlmutter

topic: Choices, Tough, Cold, Tough Choices

Obama has demonstrated no desire to make tough choices. Americans demand a more efficient, effective government, but his budget calls for more taxes and more spending. It employs deceptive accounting gimmicks but does nothing to tackle long-term entitlement problems, nothing to save Medicare or fix Social Security.

- Reince Priebus

topic: Government, Long, Choices, Deceptive, Tough Choices

Democracy doesn't require a whole lot of work of its citizens, but it requires some: It requires taking a good look outside once in a while, and considering the bad news and what it might mean, and making the occasional tough choice, and soberly taking stock of what your real interests are.

- Matt Taibbi

topic: Real, Mean, Choices, Tough Choices

Social Security must be preserved and strengthened. But we need to be candid about the costs and willing to make the tough choices that real reform will require.

- Lindsey Graham

topic: Real, Choices, Reform, Tough Choices

The shift to a cleaner energy economy wont happen overnight, and it will require tough choices along the way. But the debate is settled. Climate change is a fact.

- Barack Obama

topic: Inspirational, Choices, Energy, Personal Leadership, Tough Choices

Every governor's got tough choices to make.

- Bob McDonnell

topic: Choices, Tough, Tough Choices