Piet Hein, A Psychological Tip — Decisions

"Determine on some course, More than a wild exposure to each chance That starts i the way before thee."

"I hate to see things done by halves. If it be right, do it boldly; if it be wrong, leave it undone."

"A man who has not learned to say " no " — who is not resolved that he will take Gods way in spite of every dog that can bark at him, in spite of every silvery voice that can woo him aside — will be a weak and wretched man till he dies."

"In such a world as this, with such hearts as ours, weakness is wickedness in the long run. Whoever lets himself be shaped and guided by any thing lower than an inflexible will, fixed in obedience to God, will in the end be shaped into a deformity, and guided to wreck and ruin."

"Somewhere deep down we know that in the final analysis we do decide things and that even our decisions to let someone else decide are really our decisions, however pusillanimous."

"Pleasure and revenge Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice Of any true decision."