Harry Chapin Quotes

Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.

IF you are not making mistakes, then you are not doing anything.

To wish for change will change nothing; To make the decision to take action right now will change everything.

I'd rather regret doing something than not doing something.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.

If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.

Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome.

Planning is extremely important, but at some point you have to go out and do it.

It is better to make mistakes than to lie idle.

The team that makes the most mistakes usually wins, because doers make mistakes

Sometimes, making the wrong choice is better than making no choice. You have the courage to go forward, that is rare. A person who stands at the fork, unable to pick, will never get anywhere.

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.

The wrong thing to do about any given circumstance or situation is to do nothing.

It's better to go into the world half-cocked than not to go into the world at all.

Life gives us choices. You either grab on with both hands and just go for it, or you sit on the sidelines.

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

I'd rather be in trouble for having done something than for not having done anything.

The individual who is mistake-free is also probably sitting around doing nothing. And that is a very big mistake.

The man who never makes a mistake must get tired of doing nothing.

The real gap is between doing nothing and doing something.

Only those who never step, never stumble.

Making mistakes is the privilege of the active. It is always the mediocre people who are negative, who spend their time proving that they were not wrong.

The only people, scientific or other, who never make mistakes are those who do nothing.

Everyone has ideas. They may be too busy or lack the confidence or technical ability to carry them out. But I want to carry them out. It is a matter of getting up and doing it.