(50 quotes found)
“Then indecision brings its own delays,And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days.Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute;What you can do, or dream you can, begin it;Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.”
Maimonides
“The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision.”
William Arthur Ward
“There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision”
William James
“Indecision is the seedling of fear”
Napoleon Hill
“Indecision may or may not be my problem.”
Jimmy Buffett
“Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.”
George Canning
“The easiest period in a crisis situation is actually the battle itself. The most difficult is the period of indecision -- whether to fight or run away. And the most dangerous period is the aftermath. It is then, with all his resources spent and his guard down, that an individual must watch out for dulled reactions and faulty judgment.”
Richard M. Nixon
“Indecision is like a stepchild: if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water.”
African Proverb
“Once he makes up his mind, he's full of indecision. [On Dwight D. Eisenhower]”
Oscar Levant