Robert Henri Quotes

My biggest worry is that sometimes you know the problem, but you don't do anything about it until it gets too big to be fixed.

That's human nature. Nobody does anything until it's too late.

The worst thing we can do is to do nothing.

The risks of inaction are far greater than the risks of action.

Many a false step was made by standing still.

Maybe it was inertia -or worse, fear- that was keeping me in the same place.

Omission to do what is necessary Seals a commission to a blank of danger; And danger, like an ague, subtly taints Even then when we sit idly in the sun.

He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.

I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing.

To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.

We thought we would get around to it sometime down the line. Theoretically we could have regulated it, but it wasn't on our radar screen.

Of all the cankers of human happiness, none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful a tooth as indolence.

Procrastinate now, don't put it off.

This can has been kicked down the road for 60 years. Enough is enough!!!

Indecision and reveries are the anesthetics of constructive action.

I kind of waited for opportunities to be handed to me. I think I was lazy, and when things didn't go right, I just said, 'Oh well.'

Telling the public, 'We'll get to it later,' is inadequate. That's what the federal government does.

Sometimes inaction is worse than action.

No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken.

Half the world hates What half the world does every day Half the world waits While half gets on with it anyway

It is much easier to settle a point than to act on it.

While the grasse groweth the horse starveth.

The fool, with all his other faults, has this also, he is always getting ready to live.