Decisive
Having the power or quality of deciding a question or controversy; putting an end to contest or controversy; final; conclusive.
Marked by promptness and decision.
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Decisive Quotations
Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.
Theodore Roosevelt
The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.
Franz Kafka
War remains the decisive human failure.
John Kenneth Galbraith
When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive.
George W. Bush
Iraq is no diversion. It is a place where civilization is taking a decisive stand against chaos and terror, we must not waver.
George W. Bush
Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do.
Joseph Wood Krutch
Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.
Mao Tse-Tung
Providing patients and consumers with solid information on the cost and quality of their healthcare options can literally make the difference between life or death; and play a decisive role in whether a family or employer can afford healthcare.
Timothy Murphy
Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.
Karl Von Clausewitz
The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.
Andre Gide
Decisive Translations
decisive in Dutch is beslissend, finaal, cruciaal
decisive in French is tranchant
decisive in Italian is decisivo
decisive in Spanish is firme, decisivo
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