Indecision Quotes

135 Indecision quotes by 109 unique authors

In times of storm and tempest, of indecision and desolation, a book already known and loved makes better reading than something new and untried ...… — Elizabeth Goudge
To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision.… — Maya Angelou
Indecision is the source of chaos." - Paris Skyle(Allies of the Night) — Darren Shan
Lose the day loitering, 'twill be the same story To-morrow, and the next more dilatory, For indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision. — William Arthur Ward
Regrets are about decisions that you know you should have done different. — Laurell K. Hamilton
The problem, simply put, is that we cannot choose everything simultaneously. So we live in danger of becoming paralyzed by indecision, terrified that every choice… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Once war is forced upon us, there is no alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end. War’s very… — Douglas MacArthur
Luckily, even as a young man not yet become himself, John Bridgens had two things besides indecision that kept him from self-destruction - books and… — Dan Simmons
And indeed there will be time for the yellow smoke that slides along the street rubbing its back upon the window-panes; there will be time… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Can you define "plan" as "a loose sequence of manifestly inadequate observations and conjectures, held together by panic, indecision, and ignorance"? If so, it was… — Jonathan Stroud
Things can harden meaningfully in the moment of indecision — John Ashbery
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… — Bertrand Russell
What is fear after all? It is indecision. You seek some way to resist, escape. There is none. — Anne Rice
things which in my mind blossom will stumble beneath a clumsiest disguise appear capable of fragility and indecision — E E Cummings
Evil draws its power from indecision and concern for what other people think. — Pope Benedict XVI
Choice is the keynote of self-determinism. To determine anything, you must have the choice to determine. Choice to determine means that you must have the… — L. Ron Hubbard
Life is a checkerboard, and the player opposite you is time. If you hesitate before moving, or neglect to move promptly, your men will be… — Elbert Hubbard
He found himself remembering how on one summer morning they two had started from New York in search of happiness. They had never expected to… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The floor of ice cream parlor bothered me. It was black-and-white checkboard tile, bigger than supermarket checkboard. If I looked only at a white square,… — Susanna Kaysen
Decisions. Where, what, why. Can't handle them. So I'm prolonging the indecision with higher education. — Kamila Shamsie
Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile. — Bertrand Russell
Indecision and delays are the parents of failure. — George Canning
Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way of ambivalence, indecision,… — John Ortberg
Indecision is a virus that can run through an army and destroy its will to win or even to survive. — Wendell Mayes

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