Quotes About Hesitation

Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought; And enterprises of great pith and moment, With this regard, their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action.

A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.

Deliberation often loses a good chance.

Some persons are very decisive when it comes to avoiding decisions.

To teach how to live with uncertainty, yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy can do.

It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.

We fail more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Half the failures in life come from pulling one's horse in when he is leaping.

Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes.

Act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done by hesitation.

The only things you regret are the things you didn't do.

He who hesitates is last.

If I knew ... that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

People are afraid to ask musicians to be involved in projects because they anticipate being turned down. Young artists hesitate before contacting me. People in my position don't get approached often enough.

I don't reject caution, but you also have to be careful about caution because there's a stage when it turns into paralysis.

Oh my God, I never really tweet, but there's a moment every day I write one and then delete it.

Usually what goes through my mind before I hit the tweet button is, did I misspell or mis-grammatize anything, but also, is this worth polluting the interwebs with for posterity?

I went camping one time when I was twelve, to the Great Lakes. My friend stepped in really deep muddy water and started screaming and sinking. My mom ran up, and I was just standing there a foot away and wouldn't stick out my hand to pull him up. So I'm probably not the best person to take on a camping trip.

In many cases, if we knew what it would take, we might have thought twice about it, so it's often wonderful that we don't have hindsight.

Generally, I have lot of patience, and I won't take a decision immediately on anything. I will think twice, thrice; then only I take a decision.

If this was my instinct talking, I didn"t want to hear what it was saying.

It's hard to want to let somebody into your house.

At all crucial moments in our lives we want to speak without knowing what to say.

What is happening in Detroit is not good so I don't even want to be a part of that, but there is something on the other side that I may want to be a part of so I don't know yet.