Maimonides Quotes

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

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

Be decisive. A wrong decision is generally less disastrous than indecision.

If you scared to take chances, you'll never have the answers...

Sometimes, making the wrong choice is better than making no choice. You have the courage to go forward, that is rare. A person who stands at the fork, unable to pick, will never get anywhere.

My friend Terry says that when you need to make a decision, in your work or otherwise, and you don’t know what to do, just do one thing or the other, because the worst that can happen is that you will have made a terrible mistake.

We really only have two choices. Play it safe, or take a chance. For me, pulling back because of fear has always made me feel worse.

If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.

The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.

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.

My favorite expression is: When you go up to the bell, ring it ? or don't go up to the bell.

All of life is the exercise of risk.

It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - choose the bolder.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

Never stop because you are afraid - you are never so likely to be wrong.

Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn't any good reason to refer to it.

It might be scary because you're taking a risk, but at the end of the day you can say you tried.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

I don't want to completely self-sabotage everything that I've got and alienate everyone. But I definitely want to take some chances as I always have.

Leap, and the net will appear.

I don't know what I'm doing, but I'm damn well gonna do it!