Shirley Williams Quotes

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

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.

The only risk we run is by doing nothing.

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

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.

The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.

The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.

Those who mill around at the crossroads of history do so at their own peril.

In my life as a soldier and citizen, I have seen time and time again that inaction has dire consequences.

You tend to regret the things you haven't done.

If not now, then when ? If not you, then who ?

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

The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing.

To wish for change will change nothing; To make the decision to take action right now will change everything.

Sometimes the riskiest decision you can make is to do nothing.

If she doesn't speak, she is making a choice. If she doesn't try, she can lose her chance forever. -An-mei

Those who act will fail. Those who seize will lose.

The problem with putting it all on the line is that it might not work out. The problem with not putting it all on the line is that it will never (ever) change things for the better. Not much of a choice, I think.

The real risk is doing nothing.

When someone wants something then they should be aware that they are taking a risk. But this is precisely what makes life interesting.

If we are waiting for guaranteed courses of action, we may spend much of our life waiting.

If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.

A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing.