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Quotes About Hesitation

Although her instinct was to answer it, she
~ Ethel Lina White
My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged.
~ Euripides
In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best.
~ Euripides
Second thoughts are ever wiser.
~ Euripides
To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.
~ Eva Young
There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance.
~ Jean Racine
At first, I was saying to my rep, 'I don't know if this is really my thing.' I get heart palpitations just watching basic comedy-horror stuff.
~ Alycia Debnam-Carey
Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever.
~ Thomas Secker
Ill give you a definite maybe.
~ Samuel Goldwyn
Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
~ Oscar Levant
I can be indecisive about things - and the less important something is, the more indecisive I am.
~ Ben Miller
To teach how to live with uncertainty, yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy can do.
~ Bertrand Russell
To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it.
~ Bertrand Russell
Tonight's show is about doubt. Or maybe it isn't - haven't made my mind up yet.
~ Bill Bailey
Indecision with the passing of time becomes decision.
~ Bill Wilson
In theater or movies you see either 'I'm religious' or 'I'm an atheist.' I've never seen too much discussion of 'I believe there's a higher power but I'm hesitant to reach out to him because I don't know if I'm worthy of his attention.'
~ Zach Braff
You know it's easy to say you shouldn't do something and then something happens and you say, 'Wow, I wish I would have done something.'
~ Louis Susman
Somebody said to me, 'You should keep a journal of this period in your life and really write down this stuff.' But that makes me a little uneasy.
~ Timothee Chalamet
To consider what other people might say is hardly a good reason to take action or to defer it.
~ Gregory Maguire
but, being unable to decide yes, she decided no.
~ Gregory Maguire
You hate your destination so much you want to postpone showing up for as long as possible.
~ Gretchen Rubin
Like Buridan's Ass, the donkey that starves because it can't decide between two bales of hay, I become paralyzed by indecision.
~ Gretchen Rubin
Now she was frightened, terribly frightened, and had a wild desire to run away, to ring, to call, but she dared not move, lest she might disturb his repose.
~ Guy de Maupassant
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