James C. Collins Quotes

They are focused on whether they can do something. They never think whether they should do something.

Sometimes what you mustn't do is just as just as important as what you must do.

Whether it's trivial or important, every choice has a moral aspect to it to a certain degree.

Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries.

Actions will be judged according to intentions.

This is the biggest mistake I've made so far in my life ... When you're a sportsman, you shouldn't be involved with politics.

Maybe we’ve done the best thing but sometimes have done it in the worst way.

Everything's not black and white. We choose to make bad decisions or not.

When you make bad decisions bad things happen. And it was so simple. You know, the decisions you make are going to become the life that you live!

The whole point of life is learning to live with the consequences of the bad decision we've made.

We have to make the right decisions.

Sometimes the choices you make are good and other times it goes the other way. I take full responsibility as coach.

The end doesn't justify anything, because all we ever live with is the means.

Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.

A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences.

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

If we want better results, we have to make better choices.

In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.

Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.

My original opinion still stands. I don't think he should have put it out.

You will be judged in years to come by how you responded to genocide on your watch.

The real question is: How do you react? What do you do next? Evade responsibilities? Bury yourself in work? What do you do? All three of my novels take up that question, although none gives an answer.

I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.

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

Never bend the rules. You bend the rules a little bit and then it's a slippery slope.