Quotes About Indecision

I went to vote once, but I got too scared. I couldn't decide whom to vote for.

When I left university with a history degree, I had no idea what I wanted to do, and I was terrified of accidentally ending up in the wrong career.

No man is so dangerous as the man who cannot decide what he fears.

I've just been living from day to day. Waiting for something or someone else to change the situation." His eyes studied her face, looking for a reaction to his next words. "I think I need to make a real decision. I believe I need to take action on my own.

Like zero direction

Well, Ista, said the Voice. Do you stay or go? You cannot hang forever in My doorway like a cat, you know.

swept into the giddy vortex which keeps so many young people revolving aimlessly, till they go down or are cast upon the shore, wrecks of what they might have been

No, I am not," Grant shot back, "but in war anything is better than indecision. We must decide. If I am wrong we shall soon find it out, and can do the other thing. But not to decide wastes both time and money and may ruin everything.

and Pao Yi was reminded that the inclination of almost every living thing is to cling on, to remain where it is, but that his own inclination -his own nature- suspended him always in a kind of no-man's-land between remaining and leaving.

Entre os pensamentos, as suspeitas são como morcegos, sempre voam no crepúsculo e certamente devem ser reprimidas, ou pelo menos bem vigiadas; elas levam reis à tirania, maridos ao ciúme e os homens sábios à indecisão e à melancolia, como disse o filósofo Francis Bacon.

What's the meaning of this? His heart is completely different now, he has none of the indecision or sadness or fear of before. I sense only anger, and he delights in the thought of killing me.- Goshinki

Here in America, the only words that didn't exist, the only unspeakable words, were "I'm not sure about any of this. I'm having second thoughts.

I, too, have ropes around my neck, I have them to this day, pulling me this way and that, East and West, the nooses tightening, commanding, choose, choose. . . . Ropes, I do not choose between you. Lassoes, lariats, I choose neither of you, and both. Do you hear? I refuse to choose.

When it gets to this point, it's just hard to pull the trigger.

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

I am no longer a reasoning creature; I have no will, unless it be the will never to decide.

In the main we deal in this life, he says, chiefly with probabilities, with difficult choices often having to do with lesser evils, with situations where one must weigh the pros and cons and often act without anything approaching certainty, but act one must, for it is better even to make a mistake than to hobble oneself permanently in indecision.

I explained myself like this: I did not feel adamant about saying no, but I also didn't feel adamant about saying yes, so until I felt strongly one way or another, I'd stick with no.

the only thing you care about is the beginning and the end. You can never be in the middle; you can never actually be with someone or learn something or get something done, because you're always starting and then leaving

I don't do anything with my life except romanticise and decay with indecision

I don't do anything with my life except romanticize and decay with indecision. —  Allen Ginsberg, The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice: First Journals and Poems: 1937-1952 . (Da Capo Press; 1st Da Capo Press Ed edition November 1, 2006)

Maybe's a game with no winners.

I was so scared of doing the wrong thing I hardly ever did the right thing." Vic

I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.