Elizabeth I Quotes

The only risk we run is by doing nothing.

Not to decide is to decide.

To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

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

Good counsel is good for him that will do thereafter.

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

One of the biggest lessons I've learned recently is that when you don't know what to do, you should do nothing until you figure out what to do because a lot of times you feel like you are pressed against the wall, and you've got to make a decision. You never have to do anything. Don't know what to do? Do nothing.

If you don't know what to do, don't do anything.

When in doubt, stand still.

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.

Sometimes too much thinking leads to the Death of Doing

An ounce of prudence is worth a pound of cleverness.

I have no brakes on...analysis is for those who are paralyzed by life.

There is some risk involved in action, there always is. But there is far more risk in failure to act.

While some of us act without thinking, too many of us think without acting.

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

Withholding a decision is a decision.

Doubt means don't. Don't move. Don't answer. Don't rush forward.

Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.

Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.

Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess.

Remember my strong advice; just remember to always think twice.

Those who don't try never look foolish.

The sense of paralysis proceeds not so much out of the mammoth size of the problem but out of the puniness of the purpose.