Quotes About Hesitation

Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old.

The sound of the surf mingled with the wind rushing in his ears, and still it did not drown out the sound of her voice: "Can you think of any reason why I should not stay?" A thousand. None of them good enough.

I dont know how it would of turned out if I hadnt worried.

Even if you knew what to do you wouldnt know what to do. You wouldnt know if you wanted to do it or not.

I'm of two minds about this shit. Two minds. Yeah. I aint sure I'm cut out for domestic bliss. Probably not.

I decided that I wanted to say to Sin-Jun, I like your skirt. But sometimes speaking is so hard! It's like standing still, then sprinting. I kept rehearsing the sentence in my head, examining it for flaws.

The margin between staying and leaving was so thin; really, it could have gone either way.

She rose slowly. She didn't want to go. She also rather resented staying.

Dismissed, he wanted to kiss her, but he dared not. She half wanted him to kiss her, but could not bring herself to give any signs.

And yet when the cup of power neared his lips, he became strangely hesitant, reluctant, perhaps coy.

was also true when it came to personal commitments. If he knew for sure a course of action was right, he was unstoppable. But if he had doubts, he sometimes withdrew, preferring not to think about things that did not perfectly suit him. As happened when Amelio had asked him what role he wanted to

He does not hesitate at our boldest measures, but rather seems to think us too irresolute.

if I had only picked up a telephone and spoken my heart.

Everything is possible for him who possesses courage and activity….and to the timid and hesitating everything is impossible, because it seems so.

Bryce, she whispers. What's wrong. I can barely breathe as I ask her, Do you like him? Do I... you mean Jon? Yes! Well, sure. He's nice and - No, do you like him? My heart was pounding through my chest as I took her other hand and waited. Well, no. I mean, not like that.... No! She said no! I didn't care where I was, I didn't care who saw. I wanted, just had to kiss her. I leaned in, closed my eyes, and then...

But he knew he wouldn't." How much it said, that line; how much it told about himself.

He rapped on the glass. She looked up from the board, put the iron aside, hesitated, then came forward slowly, uncertain, peering to see who it might be. (This is the Student Raskolnikov.) He tapped again to reassure her.

Look twice before you leap.

Hesitating, at the threshold of various illusory paths of life, I considered them one by one, without daring to pursue any one of them.

I've never done it before—I don't like doing things I've never done before.

...Shall I go on? Or have I said enough?...

Aries: "I was going to do that but then you told me to."

More fortunes in money and in the material things of life have been lost by those who hesitated out of fear than by those who ventured too quickly and without caution.

Are you sure it wouldn't work?" said Jo urgently, in a quiet voice. "Are you sure you don't want to see him again? Laura wanted to laugh. Those were two totally separate things, weren't they?