Jim Butcher Quotes

The only risk we run is by doing nothing.

It is better to do the wrong thing that to do nothing.

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

Sometimes inaction is worse than action.

My only fear is doing something contrary to human nature - the wrong thing, the wrong way, or at the wrong time.

It’s a good thing when you don’t dare do something if you don’t think it’s right. But it’s not good when you think something’s not right because you don’t dare do it.

I'm a good person. In most ways. But I'm beginning to think that being a good person in most ways doesn't count for anything very much, if you're a bad person in one way.

The whole world is incapable of judging either right or wrong. but it is certain that actionless action can judge both right and wrong.

T is the will that makes the action good or ill.

I have never known what to tell anybody. Except that it is better to do something than nothing, even if the cost is great.

In each case you settle on an act. Doing nothing at all counts as an act.

The futility of action does not absolve one from the failure to act. -

He who considers too much will perform little.

My life used to be like that game of freeze tag we played as kids. Once tagged, you had to freeze in the position you were in. Whenever something happened, I'd freeze like a statue, too afraid of moving the wrong way, of making the wrong decision. The problem is, if you stand still too long, that's your decision.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all.

Not to decide is to decide.

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

Passivity is fatal to us.

The only people who aren’t criticized are those who do nothing, and I would hate to see the agency [CIA] get in that state.

Who never wins can rarely lose, Who never climbs as rarely falls.

The worst thing you can do is sit there and do nothing, right?

Having precise ideas often leads to a man doing nothing.

I'd rather look a fool than be right and fail to act.