110 Hesitation Quotes

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Famous Hesitation Quotes

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age. - Ernest Hemingway

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age. — Ernest Hemingway

Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true. — Patrick Swayze

No Fear, No Hesitation, No Surprise, No Doubt — Miyamoto Musashi

Make haste cautiously. — Augustus

Action can cure fear and hesitation and doubt. — Lewis Howes

Indecision and delays are the parents of failure. — George Canning

A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards. — Karl Kraus

Look twice before you leap. — Charlotte Bronte

People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude. — Ovid

He who asks with timidity invites a refusal. — Seneca

Indecision may or may not be my problem. - Jimmy Buffett

Indecision may or may not be my problem. — Jimmy Buffett

Ponder and deliberate before you make a move. — Sun Tzu

Indecision is like a stepchild: if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water. — African Proverbs

Cowardice, the dread of what will happen. — Epictetus

Indecision with the passing of time becomes decision. — Bill W.

Short Hesitation Quotes

  • What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. — Tim Ferriss
  • Excellence is my presence. Never tense, never hesitant. — The Notorious B.I.G.
  • Sixth sense, six pack, six degrees of separation / My evil third eye blinks with no hesitation — Ghostface Killah
  • An angry woman is vindictive beyond measure, and hesitates at nothing in her bitterness. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
  • Never hesitate to go far away, beyond all seas, all frontiers, all countries, all beliefs. — Amin Maalouf
  • He who hesitates, regrets. — Albanian Proverbs
  • The Bay Area is so beautiful, I hesitate to preach about heaven while I'm here. — Billy Graham
  • Toxic people will pollute everything around them. Don’t hesitate. Fumigate. — Mandy Hale
  • I've always been proud of being a Marine. I won't hesitate to defend the Corps. — Jonathan Winters
  • You can't be hesitant about who you are. — Viola Davis

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No Hesitation Quotes

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

When men no longer fear God, they transgress His laws without hesitation. The fear of consequences is no deterrent when the fear of God is gone. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation. — Thomas Henry Huxley

On an important decision one rarely has 100% of the information needed for a good decision no matter how much one spends or how long one waits. And, if one waits too long, he has a different problem and has to start all over. This is the terrible dilemma of the hesitant decision maker. — Robert K. Greenleaf

The heroic minute.- It is the time fixed for getting up.- Without hesitation: a supernatural reflection and.-.-.- up! The heroic minute: here you have a mortification that strengthens your will and does no harm to your body. — Josemaria Escriva

I have made it clear that we will hunt down terrorists who threaten our country, wherever they are. That means I will not hesitate to take action against ISIL in Syria, as well as Iraq. This is a core principle of my presidency: if you threaten America, you will find no safe haven. — Barack Obama

If you knew the satisfaction of performing such a duty, as well as the gratitude to God which the missionary must always feel, in being chosen for so noble, so sacred a calling, you would have no hesitation in embracing it. — David Livingstone

In an archery contest, when the stakes are earthenware tiles a contestant shoots with skill. When the stakes are belt buckles he becomes hesitant, and if the stakes are pure gold he becomes nervous and confused. There is no difference as to his skil. — Zhuangzi

A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman. It’s only you and I, with our big brains and our tiny hearts, who doubt and overthink and hesitate. — Steven Pressfield

Mind without agitation is meditation. Mind in the present moment is meditation. Mind that has no hesitation, no anticipation is meditation. Mind that has come back home, to the source, is meditation. Mind that becomes no mind is meditation. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

A Moment Of Hesitation Quotes

Decisive moment: the one when you will be really alone. And it is perhaps this that makes her hesitate: not the void, but the vastness of the solitude. It's as well if you are frightened of solitude. It's a sign that you have come to the moment of your birth. — Helene Cixous

Take one more deep breath, savor it, and plunge forward without thinking. Do not allow yourself hesitation. Do not allow yourself a moment of doubt. Follow your instincts and go where you never would have considered possible. — Corey Taylor

No one rises above who he or she has been without first having fallen down. The best time - in fact, the only time - to make a real change in your life is in the moment of seeing the need for it. He who hesitates always gets lost in the hundred reasons why tomorrow is a better day to get started. — Guy Finley

Only love of a good woman will make a man question every choice, every action. Only love makes a warrior hesitate for fear that his lady will find him cruel. Only love makes a man both the best he will ever be, and the weakest. Sometimes all in the same moment. -Wicked — Laurell K. Hamilton

A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment. — Harry S Truman

The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. Its one object is to produce and consume. It has pity neither for beautiful nature nor for living human beings. It is ruthlessly ready without a moment's hesitation to crush beauty and life out of them, molding them into money. — Rabindranath Tagore

People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For me it was more like being abducted from my bed by a clown, thrust into a circus arena with a wicker chair, and told to tame a pissed-off lion in front of an expectant crowd. — Hannah Kent

A woman questions the man who loves exactly as a judge questions a criminal. This being so, a flash of the eye, a mere word, an inflection of the voice or a moment's hesitation suffice to expose the fact, betrayal or crime he is attempting to conceal. — Honore de Balzac

If I ask you to plunge into the Ganga or to jump from the roof of a house, meaning it all for your good, could you do even that without any hesitations Just think of it even now; otherwise don't rush forward on the spur of the moment to accept me as your Guru. — Swami Vivekananda

He hesitated for a moment. Then he said softly, "I love you, Mother." He took my hand and kissed it, and folded my fingers round the stem of the rose. He had stripped it of its thorns. — Barbara Mertz

Love Hesitation Quotes

Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means. — Leo Buscaglia

My definition of success is doing what you love. I feel many people do things because they feel they have to, and are hesitant to risk following their passion. — Tony Hawk

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive. — Orlando A. Battista

Good friends are those who care without hesitation, who remember without limitation and who love even without communication — Philippos Syrigos

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive. — Orlando A. Battista

I am now considered such a monster, that I hesitate to darken with my shadow, the doors of those I love, lest I should bring upon them misfortune. — Robert E. Lee

Every other creature on the planet is doing its best. Only human beings hesitate about that. — Jaggi Vasudev

I hesitate to add, but I will, that this is fun. God means Christianity to be fun. There is to be a reality of love and communication in the Christian-to-Christian relationship, individually and corporately, which is completely and truly personal. — Francis Schaeffer

If the ultimate, the hardest, cannot be asked of me; if my fellows hesitate to ask it and turn to someone else, then I know nothing of Calvary love. — Amy Carmichael

We get shy about saying things like I love you. Life is so short. It's crazy, that we hesitate to express our true thoughts to each other. — Yoko Ono

Without Hesitation Quotes

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists. — Blaise Pascal

You don’t wait to be told, you don’t waver from your goal. When it’s time to act, you act, instinctively and without hesitation. — Tim Grover

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness. — George Sand

In accordance with my conception of life, I have chosen not to bring children into the world. A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung out into the cosmic brutality without hesitation. — Peter Wessel Zapffe

Without doubt, without hesitation, I choose gardening over the gym. I can’t stand going to the gym. It doesn’t appeal to me at all. Give me gardening every time. — Mary Berry

We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more than the search for truth. — Blaise Pascal

If liberalism is to mean anything at all, it is duty bound to support without hesitation the dissenting individual over the group, the heretic over the orthodox, innovation over stagnation, and free speech over offense. — Maajid Nawaz

If there were a button I could press, I would sacrifice myself without hesitating, if it meant millions of people would die. — Pentti Linkola

Live for each second without hesitation — Elton John

The body moves naturally, automatically, without any personal intervention or awareness. If we think too much, our actions become slow and hesitant. — Taisen Deshimaru

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More Hesitation Quotes

Often, people who can do, don’t because they’re afraid of what people that can’t do will say about them doing. — Trevor Noah

Choice is not a form of freedom in the sense of the word; choice is the act of hesitation that occurs before making a decision. — Alan Watts

Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen. — Maimonides

Are you ready to cut off your head and place your foot on it? If so, come; Love awaits you! Love is not grown in a garden, nor sold in the marketplace; whether you are a king or a servant, the price is your head, and nothing less. Yes, the cost of the elixir of love is your head! Do you hesitate? 0 miser, It is cheap at that price! — Abu Hamid AlGhazzali

Are you ready to cut off your head and place your foot on it? If so, come; Love awaits you! Love is not grown in a garden, nor sold in the marketplace; whether you are a king or a servant, the price is your head, and nothing less. Yes, the cost of the elixir of love is your head! Do you hesitate? 0 miser, It is cheap at that price! — Al-Ghazali

Powerful government tends to draw into it people with bloated egos, people who think they know more than everyone else and have little hesitance in coercing their fellow man. Or as Nobel Laureate Friedrich Hayek said, "in government, the scum rises to the top". — Walter E. Williams

I say to all those leaders, do not look the other way. Do not hesitate... It is within your power to avoid a genocide of humanity. — Nelson Mandela

Whether we live together in confidence and cohesion; with more faith and pride in ourselves and less self-doubt and hesitation; strong in the conviction that the destiny of Canada is to unite, not divide; sharing in cooperation, not in separation or in conflict; respecting our past and welcoming our future. — Lester B. Pearson

If you feel lost, disappointed, hesitant, or weak, return to yourself, to who you are, here and now and when you get there, you will discover yourself, like a lotus flower in full bloom, even in a muddy pond, beautiful and strong. — Masaru Emoto

The car (FT86) is not only FUN to drive, but in terms of quality and precision of handling, the car has very much surpassed any expectations I had. More easily put, if you had blind folded me and told me this was a new creation by BMW's M department, I would not even hesitate to believe you. It's that good. — Keiichi Tsuchiya

I do not hesitate one second to state clearly and unmistakably: I belong to the American resistance movement which fights against American imperialism, just as the resistance movement fought against Hitler. — Paul Robeson

A lot of scientists are hesitant to get involved with industry. It's seen as, you know, getting in bed with the devil, actually. But I found that doing this has been really the only way and one of the best ways I know to take a finding from the bench side to people. — David Sinclair

People always have this emotional relationship with stocks, and once they have been bitten by something, it takes a while to get back into it. — Francois Rochon

All miracles are promised to faith, and what is faith except the audacity of will which does not hesitate in the darkness, but advances towards the light in spite of all ordeals, and surmounting all obstacles? — Eliphas Levi

We will not hesitate to take any decision that guarantees the country's security and stability in light of our authentic democratic approach. — Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah

Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind. — Leo Rosten

Don't ever hesitate to take to [God] whatever is on your heart. He already knows it anyway, but He doesn't want you to bear its pain or celebrate its joy alone. — Billy Graham

I am so lucky to have really good parents. They didn't hesitate to let us go to L.A. They didn't hesitate, because they knew that they raised their kids the right way: to be able to live by themselves and not get caught up by L.A. — Jake Paul

An expectation was there, mixed in with so many other emotions - excitement, resignation, hesitation, confusion, fear - that would well up then wither on the vine. You're optimistic one moment, only to be racked the next by the certainty that it will all fall to pieces. And in the end it does. — Haruki Murakami

When a child of the streets stands before you in rags, with a tear-stained face, you cannot easily forget him. And yet, you are perplexed what to do. The human soul is difficult to interfere with. You hesitate how far you should go. — Charles Loring Brace

Once you have made a careful decision based on facts, go into action. Don't stop to reconsider. Don't begin to hesitate, worry, and retrace your steps. Don't lose yourself in self-doubting which begets other doubts. Don't keep looking back over your shoulder. — Dale Carnegie

It is amazing that we hesitate to talk about the wrath of God, for fear of making sinners feel fearful. The fear they feel this side of the grave will be nothing compared to the fear they feel when they stand before Almighty God. — Ray Comfort

The world says: "You have needs - satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. Don't hesitate to satisfy your needs; indeed, expand your needs and demand more." This is the worldly doctrine of today. And they believe that this is freedom. The result for the rich is isolation and suicide, for the poor, envy and murder. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

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