Oswald Chambers Quotes

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Everybody has noticed the way cats stop and loiter in a half-open door. Hasn't everyone said to a cat: For heavens sake why don't you come in? With opportunity half-open in front of them, there are men who have a similar tendency to remain undecided between two solutions, at the risk of being crushed by fate abruptly closing the opportunity. The overprudent, cats as they are, and because they are cats, sometimes run more danger than the bold

I find it tricky to make plans.

The woman that deliberates is lost.

People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

A New Year's resolution that I can never keep? To be able to make decisions.

If you make a promise, the thing is still uncertain and depends on a future day .. but if you refuse, you alienate people to a certainty and immediately.

If you make a decision, a pact with someone, your friend, you should say, 'I'm gonna do this,' and you should stick to it.

I think Paul Martin doesn't mean what he says. He said he would clear this sort of thing up and he didn't do it.

The reason I so rarely break promises to other people? It breaks trust. Without trust, there's no relationship.

Playing it safe is the riskiest choice we can ever make.

Undertake not what you cannot perform, but be careful to keep your promise.

Deciding whether or not to trust a person is like deciding whether or not to climb a tree, because you might get a wonderful view from the highest branch, or you might simply get covered in sap, and for this reason many people choose to spend their time alone and indoors, where it is harder to get a splinter.

Far too many people make promises they can never keep. They may have the best intentions in the world to keep their promise-but if they have not made a plan to keep it, they will not be able to do it.

Bad promises are better broken than kept.

We don’t need any more promises. We need to start keeping the promises we already made.

There's nothing worse than breaking a promise to someone who cares about you.

Promises were a lot like impressions. The second one didn't count for much.

If you try to measure the future, you will never risk the present. Playing it safe. A ghastly game.

If the world breaks a million and one promises, can you trust the million and second?

I can't compete with making promises you can't keep.

He who hesitates is poor.

Others may make you promises, once again, and then election after election not deliver. We will not do this.

It is worse to be irresolute than to be wrong.

I can't just react on the strength of an email and three pages of synopsis, and say I'm going to take off for three months of my life.