Majorie Margolies-Mezvinsky Quotes

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

Not what they want but what is good for them.

It's hard to be a leader when you have to make hard choices and when you have to do what's right, even though people are not going to like you for it.

I think everything I've tried to do, whether or not it's come off that way immediately, is for the greater good. I'll take the jabs I need to in order to help us all in the long run.

If you choose to do something, then you shouldn't say it's a sacrifice, because nobody forced you to do it.

Difficult times require difficult decisions. But supporting this bill shouldn't be a difficult decision.

We cannot put off the difficult decisions for another day, another generation.

If you really want to help your country, sometimes you have to make uncomfortable decisions.

It's always easier to sacrifice when you're not the one who has to do it.

Even if there's controversy, I'm going to make the decision, and people are going to be happy in one instance and unhappy in the next. But that's the job I've been given and the job I'm going to embrace.

In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.

You know, one of the things I've learnt since coming out of office is how much easier it is to give the advice than take the decision. I mean, you know, it's tough.

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

I think that public service is tough on a family - no ifs, ands, buts about it. I have my own personal wishes, but they're not always front and center.

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten', he does not say 'My men were beaten.'

You have to be responsible when you're running an organization, and firing people who are your friends is part of that responsibility.

Parts of you die with every decision you have to make. It becomes about making decisions between bad decisions and worse decisions.

A lot of people, some of them close to me as well, have said that I sacrificed myself by doing what I did in bringing Terry on board. I didn't see it that way.

Part of my job is to make the tough calls.

When one has come to accept a certain course as duty he has a pleasant sense of relief and of lifted responsibility, even if the course involves pain

We were elected to lead and sometimes we just have to do the right thing.

Even if the exercise of my responsibility becomes my burden, I’ll bear it. But I can tell you I am going to sleep well tonight knowing I’ve made the right decision.

There's a big difference between being good and being nice. Being good involves tough choices - tough love.

When it comes to making tough decisions, I'm ready to make them.

Oftentimes the easy decision and comfortable decision is not the right one.