Edith Wharton Quotes

Before I had my heart problem, if I was asked to do something I would look through a mental file looking for reasons why I could say no.

Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.

If you temporize, you are lost.

Delays in or avoidance of decision making was chronic.

The risks of inaction are far greater than the risks of action.

There's always a reason not to do anything... to flee the need to make decisions.

It seems unpleasantly refined to put things off till someone knows.

It is worse to be irresolute than to be wrong.

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.

Too many of us fail to fulfill our needs because we say no rather than yes, or perhaps later in life, yes when we should say no.

A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anybody to serve on a committee.

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance.

Not to decide is to decide.

Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.

Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the two locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late.

If you are the kind of person who is waiting for the 'right' thing to happen, you might wait for a long time. It's like waiting for all the traffic lights to be green for five miles before starting the trip.

We think we want to do something and when it comes to it, we don't. We don't like to commit.

He who hesitates is a damned fool.

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

To delay action until there Is one hundred percent certainty Is always to postpone political action forever.

Today, whenever I'm under pressure to make a decision on a transaction but I don't know what the right one is, I try desperately to postpone it. I'll insist on more information - on doing extra laps around the intellectual parking lot - before committing. I take the same approach with people, too.

Hesitation is often like procrastination. One may have vague doubts and feel a need to mull things over; meanwhile, other issues intrude on thought, and no decision is taken. Ask people why they procrastinate, and you probably won't get a crisp answer.

Sometimes inaction is worse than action.

I'm terrible with decisions. And I can't make myself do something I don't like. I can't knuckle under.