Though a good motive cannot sanction a bad action, a bad motive will always vitiate a good action. In common and trivial matters we may act without motives, but in momentous ones the most careful deliberation is wisdom.
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The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness.
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We must believe that emotion recollected in tranquillity is an inexact formula. For it is neither emotion, nor recollection, nor without distortion of meaning, tranquillity. It is a concentration, and a new thing resulting from the concentration of a very great number of experiences which to the practical and active person would not seem to be experiences at all; it is a concentration which does not happen consciously or of deliberation. These experiences are not recollected and they finally unite in an atmosphere which is tranquil only in that it is a passive attending upon the event.
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Deliberation. The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.
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If you have a grateful heart (which is a miracle amongst you statesmen), show it by directing the bearer to the best wine in town, and pray let not this highest point of sacred friendship be performed slightly, but go about it with all due deliberation and care, as holy priests to sacrifice, or as discreet thieves to the wary performance of burglary and shop-lifting. Let your well-discerning palate (the best judge about you) travel from cellar to cellar and then from piece to piece till it has lighted on wine fit for its noble choice and my approbation.
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When I face an issue of great import that cleaves both constituents and colleagues, I always take the same approach. I engage in deep deliberation and quiet contemplation. I wait to the last available minute and then I always vote with the losers. Because, my friend, the winners never remember and the losers never forget.
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We must give lengthy deliberation to what has to be decided once and for all.
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Deliberation is the function of many, action is the function of one.
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for whom the lighting of every cigar, the drinking of every cup, the time of rising and going to bed every day, and the beginning of every bit of work, are subjects of express volitional deliberation.
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Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.
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The deliberate union of so great and various a people in such a place, is without all partiality or prejudice, if not the greatest exertion of human understanding, the greatest single effort of national deliberation that the world has ever seen.
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Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.
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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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'What made the deepest impression upon you?' inquired a friend one day of Lincoln, 'when you stood in the presence of the Falls of Niagara, the greatest of natural wonders?' ---- 'The thing that stuck me most forcibly when I saw the Falls,' Lincoln responded with the characteristic deliberation, 'was where in the world did all that water come from?'
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Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.
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