Making Tough Decisions Quotes

I think it's sad to me that I had to make a decision to not play the game that I feel like I'm best at and that I love. But if it was just about the game itself, I'd be there in a heartbeat. But that's not how the real world works.

It was a difficult decision to say no twice to Barcelona. It was never a secret that I have admired them since I was a kid and that I always wished I could play for Barcelona. But life is made of hard decisions that sometimes go against what you dream of.

Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.

You know, it's a really adult thing, for some people, to choose to not be with the one that you love.

What I find them struggling most isn't with one of the twelve [things from daily list]; I find them struggling with what decisions to make.

Denny Hastert said “the buck stops here” because he couldn’t find anyone else to pass it to.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

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

It's so easy to conform and to follow. It's very difficult to be rebellious and live by what you believe is right. And to make decisions and to take the consequences. Very few people do.

I wanted to stay home and go to Maryland because I'm really the man of my house. We lost our father when I was 14. Somebody had to be there, so I had to take it and put that on my shoulders.

I always do whatever is best for the character.

I was 28, and my mom was living with me. I had to decide. You have to claim it; you can't ask permission. After a gig in Singapore, she went home, I went to New York on my own, I packed her stuff in boxes and sent it home. I don't think she liked me for a while for doing that. It was something I needed to do to carve out my own space.

I canceled a show once to be with someone that I loved.

Decisiveness is often the art of timely cruelty.

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.

I had to do what I had to do to keep my family alive. Period.

There always comes a time when one must choose between contemplation and action. This is called becoming a man.

Friendship and loyalty shouldn't come in the way of casting.

We don't possess this job and this job doesn't possess us. We have to make some very tough decisions. If it means falling on the sword, it means falling on the sword.

Sometimes you have to park things you're not happy with, because there are more important things to be done.

I learned from my dad that there may come a time in life when you need to slow down and take a breath and deal with things, and that's OK, but whatever you do... Don't stop, and don't quit. Even if it's hard, you can't be lazy.

Sometimes you do have to accept your second or third choice in order to avoid an outcome you consider to be even worse.

I don't quite have the luxury of cherry-picking - I have to see what comes my way. But I have always been picky.

Greatness is the willingness to choose in the midst of intensity.