Quotes About Hesitation

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

He that is overcautious will accomplish little.

A timid question will always receive a confident answer.

I noticed you weren't checking your watches - you've been shaking them.

I have to move fast, if I hesitate even a second longer, I'll lose focus and be trapped forever in this... this... toilet!

Yeah, well, 'true' isn't a question mark, either," V took a pause.

times. She had them stand by, then took

Conservatism is the cousin of cowardice.

Are you sure you want to leave?

The hot water pools are steaming, Fagan and Monsanto and the others are all sitting peacefully up to their necks, they're all naked, but there's a gang of fairies also there naked all standing in various bath house postures that make me hesitate to take my clothes off just on general principles. (p. 106)

I've had moments of thinking maybe I should go on Twitter. It's something that I've been shy about, and I've thought that maybe I should do it.

The more ambivalent you are and the more uncertain you are, then you can get something that you cannot anticipate.

... I am At war 'twixt will and will not.

the worst calamities that befall an army arise from hesitation

I'm sorry," he says, "for that time I kissed you at that party and for that time at the wedding and more than anything for the thousand times that I wanted to and didn't have the guts to.

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.

There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear.

Look before you leap.

He who hesitates is sometimes wise.

And indeed there will be timeTo wonder, "Do I dare?" and, "Do I dare?"

Foreshadow, plot buster or red herring... only time will tell: P69 -- Cassie waited; in the evening light through the window her eyes looked huge, opaque and watchful. I knew she was giving me a chance to say, Fuck the hair clip, let's forget we ever found it. Even now the temptation, tired and profitless though it may be, is to wonder what would have happened if I had.

This guy couldn't order a sandwich without tying himself in knots about the possible consequences of mayonnaise.

It's true what they say … it's never the things you did that haunt you most … it's the things you didn't do, but wish you had.