Harvey Cox Quotes

Sometimes inaction is worse than action.

Withholding a decision is a decision.

It is worse to be irresolute than to be wrong.

The only risk we run is by doing nothing.

Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.

The most fatal of all neutralities is that which results not from choice, but from irresolution.

Not deciding is a decision. People don't realize that not making a decision is a decision in itself.

He who hesitates, meditates horizontally

Inaction counted as a choice.

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

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

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.

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.

Delays in or avoidance of decision making was chronic.

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.

I can be indecisive about things - and the less important something is, the more indecisive I am.

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.

There are always twenty excellent reasons for doing nothing for every one reason for starting anything-especially if it has never been done before.

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

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.

When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed. At that moment all Will's choices existed at once. But to keep them all in existence meant doing nothing. He had to choose, after all.

Do it or don't do it - you will regret both.

Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.