L. Ron Hubbard Quotes

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

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.

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

It isn't what you find, it's what you do about what you find.

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.

There is some risk involved in action, there always is. But there is far more risk in failure to act.

You can't think your way out of a box; you've got to act.

I'd rather make a mistake than do nothing.

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

If nothing is to be done in the given situation, he must invent plausible reasons for doing nothing; and if something must be done, he must suggest the something. The unpardonable sin is to propose nothing, when action is imperative.

The only risk we run is by doing nothing.

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.

A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.

When something isn't done, you want to do something about it.

Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

Being silent and doing nothing is never the right answer. What happens in one state can happen in another.

Passivity is fatal to us.

I am no advocate of passivity.

I am a worrier. I tend to do something about what I worry about.

What battle has ever been won by staying in camp and talking to your fellow soldier?

Where there is a challenge there has to be a response.

Once you decide to do something, and you're pretty sure you're right, then you gotta go ahead and do it. Because if you piddle around, somebody else will beat you to it.