Lester B. Pearson Quotes

While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin, the opportunity is lost.

The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn.

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

It is almost always wrong that the time isn't ripe to decide something. That is always said of difficult problems.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

I've got to that stage in my life where, difficult decisions I don't have to make, I push them into the future until such time I have to make them.

When you face a problem, solve it then and there if you have the facts necessary to make a decision. Don't keep putting off decisions.

if a thing is to be done, there is no time like the hour that has not struck.

Don't put things off till it's too late. You are the DJ of your fate.

Never do today what intuition says to do tomorrow.

The only real problem in life is what to do next.

If you wait for perfect conditions to seize an opportunity, you'll be waiting till the day you die.

There are many fine things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is yours is the present.

What you do today can change all the tomorrow's of your life.

The best advice I can give you is to ask yourself what do you want, then ask 'what is true' - and then ask yourself 'what should be done about it.' I believe that if you do this you will move much faster towards what you want to get out of life than if you don't!

It's far easier to put your future into someone else's hands than it is to slog your way forward, owning the results as you go.

In all cases where doubt crops up, ask yourself, "If I had a gun to my head and had to do it, how would I do it?" It's not as hard as you think.

Damn it all, you have been given a life on this beautiful planet! Get off your ass and do something!

Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows.

The real gap is between doing nothing and doing something.

If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Study the situation thoroughly, go over in your imagination the various courses of action possible to you and the consequences which can and may follow from each course. Pick out the course which gives the most promise and go ahead.

If I look back after 10 weeks and say I really want to stay then maybe I can make that happen. If I say OK it was good, but I’m ready to go then I can go, but for now I’m taking it week by week.

The only thing that happens if you wait, is that you get older.

It is impossible to live without brains, either one's own or borrowed.