Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes

The time to hesitate is through.

The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.

If you don’t act, the danger becomes stronger

If you hesitate, some bolder hand will stretch out before you and get the prize.

It is worse to be irresolute than to be wrong.

He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

The only risk we run is by doing nothing.

Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.

The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.

If you temporize, you are lost.

Those who mill around at the crossroads of history do so at their own peril.

Passivity is fatal to us.

I think the worst decision is usually no decision. If you make the wrong decision you can usually course-correct, but if you don't make it, you've already made it, and it's usually the bad one.

Nothing so perilous as procrastination

The minute you hesitate you are in trouble.

I’ve learned in a hundred ways that I rarely regretted acting but often regretted NOT acting fast enough.

Those who deny the science or choose excuses over action are playing with fire.

You forgot my first lesson: don't hesitate.

Irresolution is a worse vice than rashness. He that shoots best may sometimes miss the mark; but he that shoots not at all can never hit it. Irresolution loosens all the joints of a state; like an ague, it shakes not this nor that limb, but all the body is at once in a fit. The irresolute man is lifted from one place to another; so hatcheth nothing, but addles all his actions.

Withholding a decision is a decision.

Even after killing ninety nine tigers the Maharaja should beware of the hundredth.

Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.

Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

So much for modern science and its wonderful discoveries that just about everything can kill you. Life is only a bedtime story before a long, long sleep.

My friend Terry says that when you need to make a decision, in your work or otherwise, and you don’t know what to do, just do one thing or the other, because the worst that can happen is that you will have made a terrible mistake.