100 Indecision Quotes

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Famous Indecision Quotes

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

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

Indecision may or may not be our biggest problem. — Willie Nelson

Indecision is actually the individual’s decision to fail. — Raymond Charles Barker

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

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

Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile. — Bertrand Russell

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

Beige is the color of indecision. - Paula Scher

Beige is the color of indecision. — Paula Scher

Feeling stuck or indecisive? Listen to your intuition and make a decision — Doreen Virtue

... anything is better than indecision. We must decide. If I am wrong, we shall soon find out and can do the other thing. But not to decide wastes both time and money and may ruin everything. — Ulysses S. Grant

More is lost by indecision than wrong decision. Indecision is the thief of opportunity. It will steal you blind. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision. — Alan Rickman

Be decisive. A wrong decision is generally less disastrous than indecision. — Bernhard Langer

Life is just a series of trying to make up your mind. — Timothy Fuller

The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision. - Maimonides

The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision. — Maimonides

Short Indecision Quotes

  • When first you enter Wisdom's sea, beware-A wave of indecision floods you there. — Farid al-Din Attar
  • Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow. — Kahlil Gibran
  • I don't do anything with my life except romanticize and decay with indecision. — Allen Ginsberg
  • Strong leaders understand that action cures indecision — Toyotomi Hideyoshi
  • Evil draws its power from indecision and concern for what other people think. — Pope Benedict XVI
  • War's very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war there is no substitute for victory. — Douglas MacArthur
  • You will never be indecisive if you know your purpose. — Lou Holtz
  • People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that. — George H. W. Bush
  • I used to be indecisive, now I'm not so sure. — W. C. Fields
  • The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children. — Ivan Turgenev

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The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.

Quotable Quotes

As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster. — Ray Liotta

Quotable quotes are coins rubbed smooth by circulation. — Louis Menand

What we got here is a failure to communicate. — Paul Newman

It is better to be quotable than to be honest. — Tom Stoppard

In the view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognize, there are yet people who says there is no God. But what makes me really angry is that they quote me for support of such views. (The Expanded Quotable Einstein, Princeton University, page 214) — Albert Einstein

If you want to get unpaid media coverage, you had better be quotable. It's an interesting problem, because very few candidates are quotable. — Roger Ailes

Too much traffic with a quotation book begets a conviction of ignorance in a sensitive reader. Not only is there a mass of quotable stuff he never quotes, but an even vaster realm of which he has never heard. — Robertson Davies

It's better to be quotable than to be honest. — Tom Stoppard

[John Adams's] vividly descriptive prose is supremely quotable. Adams wears his heart on his sleeve and reveals all of his ambitions, doubts, and insecurities, especially in his diary, which is one of the greatest and most readable in all of American literature. — Gordon S. Wood

Public circulation is what renders something a quotation. It's quotable because it's been quoted, and its having been quoted gives it authority. — Louis Menand

Literary Quotes

If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary work must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us. — Franz Kafka

What a newspaper needs in its news, in its headlines, and on its editorial page is terseness, humor, descriptive power, satire, originality, good literary style, clever condensation and accuracy, accuracy, accuracy. — Joseph Pulitzer

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. — Anais Nin

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world. - Samuel Johnson

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world. — Samuel Johnson

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics, and chemistry, was to become decisive in determining the trend of my literary work. — Johannes V. Jensen

The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics, and chemistry, was to become decisive in determining the trend of my literary work. — Johannes Vilhelm Jensen

Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

Women need to become literary "criminals," break the literary laws and reinvent their own, because the established laws prevent women from presenting the reality of their lives. — Kathy Acker

It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience. — Robert Morgan

Indecisive Quotes

Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days... What you can do or think you can do, begin it. For boldness has magic, power, and genius in it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The other often much prefers a clear answer, even if it is No, than continued indecision and waffling. — William Ury

It is the decisive people who have become civilised; it is the indecisive, otherwise called the higher sceptics, or the idealistic doubters, who have remained barbarians. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

A good aspect of me is that I'm not too particular about things. A bad aspect is that I'm indecisive. — Akira Toriyama

I was always an unusual girl. My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due north, no fixed personality; just an inner indecisiveness that was as wide and as wavering as the ocean. — Lana Del Rey

I'm quite a compulsive person-I only worked this out recently - I'm compulsive, but I'm also very indecisive. I don't know what I want, but I know that I want it now. — Dylan Moran

The attractions of ceramics lie partly in its contradictions. It is both difficult and easy, with an element beyond our control. It is both extremely fragile and durable. Like 'Sumi' ink painting, it does not lend itself to erasures and indecision. — Isamu Noguchi

I don’t believe for a second that weightlifting is a sport. They pick up a heavy thing and put it down again. To me, that’s indecision. — Paula Poundstone

Don't be indecisive and unstable in all your ways. Rather, walk in the strength, confidence, and boldness that come from decisive action. — Dan Miller

And yet one can't forever stand on the shore; at some point, even if filled with indecision, skepticism, reservation and doubt, you either jump in or concede that life is forever elsewhere. — Arthur Miller

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More Indecision Quotes

A committed heart does not wait for conditions to be exactly right. Why? Because conditions are never exactly right. Indecision limits The Almighty and His ability to perform miracles in your life. He has put the vision in you - proceed! To wait, to wonder, to doubt, to be indecisive is to disobey God. — Andy Andrews

We associate leadership with decisiveness. That perception of leadership pushes people to make decisions fairly quickly, lest they be seen as dithering and indecisive. — Daniel Kahneman

No good neurotic finds it difficult to be both opinionated and indecisive. — Mignon McLaughlin

Error often is to be preferred to indecision. — Aaron Burr

We cannot look at Syria, and the evil that has arisen from the ashes of indecision, and think this is not the lowest point in the world's inability to protect and defend the innocent. — Angelina Jolie

One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision. — Bertrand Russell

The most creative people have learned to tolerate the slight discomfort of indecision for much longer and so, just because they put in more pondering time, their solutions are more creative. — John Cleese

I am very indecisive. I'm always afraid of making the wrong decision. — Katie Leung

What you can do, or think you can, begin it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

More errors arise from inhibited indecision than from impulsive behavior. — Morris L. Ernst

At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence? — Jules Feiffer

Indecision is the seedling of fear. — Napoleon Hill

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