Irresolute Quotes
17 quotes by 15 authors
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It makes him contemptible to be considered fickle, frivolous, effeminate, mean-spirited, irresolute, from all of which a prince should guard himself as from a rock;…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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For such is man: a Theological Dogma might be refuted to him a thousand times - provided however, that he had need of it, he…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Nay, but Jack, such eyes! such eyes! so innocently wild! so bashfully irresolute! Not a glance but speaks and kindles some thought of love! Then,…
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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With the ambitious, the failure of one expedient is the suggestion of another; but with the irresolute, defeat usually occasions abandonment of purpose.
— Norm MacDonald
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And it will always happen that he who is not your friend will request your neutrality and he who is your friend will ask you…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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There is nothing in the world more pitiable than an irresolute man, oscillating between two feelings, who would willingly unite the two and who does…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The Tempter masters the lazy and irresolute man who dwells on the attractive side of things, ungoverned in his senses, and unrestrained in his food,…
— Gautama Buddha
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When I rest I feel utterly lifeless except that my throat burns when I draw breath... I can scarcely go on. No despair, no happiness,…
— Reinhold Messner
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The belief that man is an irresolute creature pulled this way and that by two forces of equal strength, alternately winning and losing the battle…
— Joris-Karl Huysmans
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It is worse to be irresolute than to be wrong.
— William Strunk, Jr.
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To live in the Great Way is neither easy nor difficult, but those with limited views are fearful and irresolute: the faster they hurry, the…
— Sengcan
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Irresolute men are sometimes very persistent in their undertakings, because if they give up their designs they would have to make a second resolution.
— Giacomo Leopardi
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Decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.
— Winston Churchill
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Man is not by any means of fixed and enduring form (this, in spite of suspicions to the contrary on the part of their wise…
— Hermann Hesse
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what we call a home is merely any place that succeeds in making more consistenly available to us the important truths which the wider world…
— Alain de Botton
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Aircraft do not crash of themselves. They come to grief because men are foolish, or vain, or lazy, or irresolute or reckless. One crash in…
— Nevil Shute
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So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful…
— Winston Churchill
Who Wrote These Irresolute Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 17 Irresolute Quotes as follows: