Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

The woman that deliberates is lost.

He who hesitates is poor.

It is worse to be irresolute than to be wrong.

Often undecided whether to desert a sinking ship for one that might not float, he would make up his mind to sit on the wharf for a day.

I have hesitation making any kind of decision, really in my life. I'm really slow at it.

I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.

I always marked up a piece of paper before taking a job, looking at the pluses and minuses. If the latter outnumbered the former, I would pass.

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

To remove or not to remove? That is the question.

I can be indecisive about things - and the less important something is, the more indecisive I am.

Probably" is a word with an emergency ejector seat.

Never make a decision until you have to.

He who hesitates is sometimes wise.

People who deliberate fully before they take a step will spend their lives on one leg

Indecision is the greatest thief of opportunity.

Everybody has noticed the way cats stop and loiter in a half-open door. Hasn't everyone said to a cat: For heavens sake why don't you come in? With opportunity half-open in front of them, there are men who have a similar tendency to remain undecided between two solutions, at the risk of being crushed by fate abruptly closing the opportunity. The overprudent, cats as they are, and because they are cats, sometimes run more danger than the bold

Sometimes you get into a situation and realize that there is so much more to explore there and ask, why are we jumping off the cliff quite yet?

I somehow got this reputation of diddling and dithering. I don't remember dithering at all.

Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.

Well, if you're waitin' for a woman to make up her mind, you may have a a long wait.

I never make my mind up about anything at all, until it's over and done with.

It is a big problem and so I don't know for sure if I say yes or no to Ferrari.

I always question whether it's the right time for anything I do.

Withholding a decision is a decision.

Between yea and nay, how much difference is there?