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Quotes About Hesitation

There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
~ Joseph Addison
Don't choose someone if they have to think twice about choosing you.
~ Unknown
Fellas when you're not sure if you still want her, another guy has already figured it out...
~ Unknown
While the clerks chatted in a language I could not understand, I hesitated, yearning to take everything home but unable to choose.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
I wanted to give my first instincts a chance without shooting them down immediately, which I sometimes do.
~ Mark Kozelek
It was my first big chance, but here I was, sitting back and letting it run through my fingers like so much water.
~ Sylvia Plath
Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.
~ Thomas Huxley
Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Your wisdom is consum'd in confidence. Do not go forth to-day.
~ William Shakespeare
The flea that doubts doesn't jump nearly as high
~ Marty Rubin
There is danger in courage. Cowardice is a power for good. We hardly know what it prevents.
~ Ivy Compton-Burnett
The only wrong thing, perhaps, is permanently hesitating on the verge of courage.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
when real doubt ensues it disrupts our usual behavioural patterns.
~ Philip Stokes
He dithered but never dallied.
~ Philip Zaleski
He is a very cautious man, and he believes wholeheartedly in nothing.
~ Philippa Gregory
For, it could be doubted that the things said are possible; and, even if, in the best possible conditions, they could come into being, that they would be what is best will also be doubted. So that is why there's a certain hestitation about getting involved in it, for fear that the argument might seem to be a prayer, my dear comrade.
~ Plato
Maithanet carried a plague whose primary symptom was certainty. How the God could be equated with the absence of hesitation was something Achamian had never understood. After all, what was the God but the mystery that burdened them all? What was hesitation but a dwelling-within this mystery? Perhaps
~ R. Scott Bakker
He looked like a bored boy deciding whether to poke a dead fish.
~ R. Scott Bakker
You coming or not? he repeated impatiently. I was going to say no. But then, glancing at the curtains, I thought, it's probably no more spooky out there in that cemetery than it is here in my own bedroom!
~ R.L. Stine
Marriage is a big word for all guys," Shane said. "You know that. It's kind of an allergy. We get itchy and sweaty just trying to spell it, much less do it.
~ Rachel Caine
You stole my paranoia, she said. I was going to say, 'Don't go.' But you're going to no matter what I say, aren't you?
~ Rachel Caine
I'm not ready. But I begin.
~ Rachel Caine
I shouldn't, but I do. I trust.
~ Rachel Cohn
I know this is the wrong choice. But it feels like the only choice. So I make it.
~ Rachel Cohn