John C. Maxwell Quotes

He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

[Cost-benefit analysis is used:] ... to produce lofty academic-sounding reasons for endless inaction.

Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.

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.

General McClellan argues indefinite procrastination.

While the grasse groweth the horse starveth.

A strategy that doesn't take into account resources is doomed to failure.

In order to have enough of the raw materials...which will be lacking in wartime, we should plan to acquire and use foreign resources existing in our expected sphere of influence, such as Sakhalim, China, and the Southern Pacific.

You cannot afford to wait for perfect conditions. Goal setting is often a matter of balancing timing against available resources. Opportunities are easily lost while waiting for perfect conditions.

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

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.

While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.

On the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, at the dawn of decision, sat down to wait, and waiting died.

The opportunity is often lost by deliberating.

When a man does a household job, he goes through three periods: contemplating how it will be done; contemplating when it will be done; and contemplating.

I wish I played an instrument, but I could never decide which one, and I ended up playing nothing.

Those who stand at the threshold of life always waiting for the right time to change are like the man who stands at the bank of a river waiting for the water to pass so he can cross on dry land.

He who hesitates is a damned fool.

The Arabs never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

Who reflects too much will accomplish little.

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

Because the resources available to the U. S. military will be increasingly limited, the objectives must be too.

He, who is not prepared today, will be less so tomorrow.