Richard Cecil Quotes

It is worse to be irresolute than to be wrong.

Often any decision, even the wrong decision, is better than no decision.

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

Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr, the man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all.

The only risk we run is by doing nothing.

Not to decide is to decide.

To delay action until there Is one hundred percent certainty Is always to postpone political action forever.

Not deciding is a decision. Let’s all remember that when we decide not to do something.

Sometimes inaction is worse than action.

I always make a decision, even if it's the wrong one. I hate being confused.

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.

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

Most of the problems in life are because of two reasons, we act without thinking or we keep thinking without acting.

Far from having taken any positive step, I have not yet even fommed any resolution.

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.

Our problem is not the lack of knowing; it is the lack of doing. Most people know far more than they think they do

It is better to do the wrong thing that to do nothing.

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

The man of decision cannot be stopped! The man of indecision cannot be started! Take your own choice.

If I look at the mass I will never act.

Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

If you have not done so yet, decide to decide.

In each case you settle on an act. Doing nothing at all counts as an act.