Martin McGuinness Quotes

People like definite decisions, / Tidy answers, all the little ravelings / Snipped off, the lint removed, they / Hop happily among their roughs / Calling what they can't clutch insanity / Or saintliness.

If you can’t decide what to do, get on the road. You won’t find the answer. It will find you.

No man who has not sat in the assemblies of men can know the light, odd and uncertain ways in which decisions are often arrived at.

It is the job of leaders to eliminate uncertainty.

You don't always have to know who you are. Sometimes, it's enough just to know what to do next.

Confusion is better than stupid conclusions. In confusion, there is still a possibility. In stupid conclusion, there is no possibility.

Never ask people. Not about your work. Don't you know what you want? How can you stand it, not to know?

It's easy to judge, to think we know for certain the right thing to do. Sometimes, it just isn't so clear.

If you don't make up your mind, your unmade mind will unmake you.

A great opportunity is often hard to be explained clearly; things that can be explained clearly are often not the best opportunities.

Doubt is long-winded. Certainty is brief.

Throughout history, one of the biggest problems is that the correct course of action is not always obvious, and the obvious course of action is not always correct.

Whatever happens in a government could have happened differently, and it usually would have been better if it had.

Proceed with much prayer, and your way will be made plain.

If it's us", she whispered, "how come you get to decide?" When he didn't answer - couldn't answer - she turned and stared out the front window. As it turned out, they were still in the parking lot. They hadn't gotten anywhere at all.

When we are lost in the woods, the sight of a signpost is a great matter.

if the way ahead is not clear, time is often the best editor of one's intentions.

It is doubtful that the government knows much more than the public does about how government [Economic] policies will work.

Lack of clarity is the number-one time-waster. Always be asking, 'What am I trying to do? How am I trying to do it.

There is a line between a definite maybe and an indefinite yes.

I'm going with the flow. I feel when the time is right to stop, it will be flashing in neon lights for me, like this is it. It could be this year, it could be next year, I have no idea. Anyone in their profession seems to think it's fairly clear when it's the right time. I haven't had that moment of clarity.

A state of expectancy is a great assetl; a state of uncertainty-one moment thinking "perhaps" and the next moment thinking "I don't know"-will never get desired results.

Investment decisions and personal decisions don't wait for the picture to be clarified.

WikiLeaks is a lot of things. This past year, WikiLeaks was a tool of Russian intelligence and the Russian government and their interference operation against the American presidential election to benefit Donald Trump.

If you don't know what you want, you'll probably get what somebody else wants.