Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

He who considers too much will perform little.

There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.

People who think too much before they act don't act too much.

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

If every conceivable precaution is taken at first, one is often too discouraged to proceed at all.

We are so in fear of failure that often we prefer not to try..

There's always a reason not to do anything... to flee the need to make decisions.

Having precise ideas often leads to a man doing nothing.

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.

However, don't let perfectionism become an excuse for never getting started.

He suffered from paralysis by analysis.

[Referring to Jimmy Carter:] Jimmy's basic problem is that he's super cautious. He looks before and after he leaps.

I don't reject caution, but you also have to be careful about caution because there's a stage when it turns into paralysis.

I'm the worst at making decisions!

Hesitation is often like procrastination. One may have vague doubts and feel a need to mull things over; meanwhile, other issues intrude on thought, and no decision is taken. Ask people why they procrastinate, and you probably won't get a crisp answer.

I'm not good with decisions.

Decision-making is very scary for me.

I'm the kind of person who can paralyze myself very easily by over-thinking decisions.

If you play scared, your decision making slows down and that's when you run into more trouble.

We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.

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

Perfectionism has nothing to do with getting it right. It has nothing to do with fixing things. It has nothing to do with standards. Perfectionism is a refusal to let yourself move forward. It is a loop-an obsessive, debilitating closed system that causes you to get stuck in the details of what you are writing or painting or making and to lose sight of the whole.

There are people who make no mistakes because they never wish to do anything worth doing.

Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true.

Perfectionism spells paralysis.