If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Waiting for perfect safety prevents achievement in life.
- In plain terms
- You must take risks to succeed because perfect timing rarely comes.
- What can you take from it?
- Action is necessary even when conditions are not perfect.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- When is it safe to wait?
- What stops you from acting?
Another view
Some risks carry consequences that justify caution.
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