Indecision Quotes - Page 2

• Indecision is fatal. It is better to make a wrong decision than build up a habit of indecision. If you're wallowing in indecision, you certainty can't act - and action is the basis of success

  Marie Beynon Lyons Ray

  Decision, Action, Habit

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• Indecision is the key to flexibility.

  Kathy Reichs

  Keys, Uncertainty, Flexibility

  Kathy Reichs (2006). “Break No Bones: A Novel”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

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• Indecision is actually the individual’s decision to fail.

  Raymond Charles Barker

  Decision, Failing, Individual

  Raymond Charles Barker (2011). “The Power of Decision: A Step-By-Step Program to Overcome Indecision and Live Without Failure Forever”, p.28, Penguin

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• Indecision is a virus that can run through an army and destroy its will to win or even to survive.

  Frances Mayes

  Running, Army, Winning

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• Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision.

  Oscar Levant

  Mind

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• I'm plagued with indecision in my life. I can't figure out what to order in a restaurant.

  Chuck Close

  Order, Decision, Figures

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• All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness; that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge, and an advance in religion; and I felt something like indecision.

  Maria Monk

  Ignorance, Giving, Doubt

  Maria Monk (1851). “The Character of a Convent: Displayed in the Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk ; Being a Narrative of Her Sufferings During a Residence of Five Years as a Novice and Two Years as a Black Nun in the Hotel Dieu Nunnery at Montreal ; to which is Added Confirmatory Notes and Affidavits Whereby Maria Monk's Disclosures are Most Fully Proved, and the Hideous Nature of the Conventual System are Exposed”, p.27

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• I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Wisdom

  The Innocents Abroad (1869) ch. 7

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• Our system provides for a winner to take office on January 20th, and he is expected to take command of the ship of state. Failure to do so, characterized by hesitation and indecision, will harm the national interest.

  Richard V. Allen

  Office, Ships, January

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• I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.

  Alan Rickman

  Able, Plans

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• Things can harden meaningfully in the moment of indecision

  John Ashbery

  Moments

  John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”, Penguin Group USA

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• Indecision with the passing of time becomes decision.

  Bill W.

  Wisdom, Decision, Passing

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• Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins.

  Charles Stanley

  New Year, Fear, Opportunity

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• One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.

  Bertrand Russell

  Stupid, Ignorance, Imagination

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.676, Routledge

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• When you are in doubt, wait. Fall back on the contemplation of your vision, and increase your faith and purpose. And by all means, in times of doubt and indecision, cultivate gratitude.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Gratitude, Fall, Mean

  Wallace D. Wattles (2015). “Wallace D. Wattles Ultimate Collection – 10 Books in One Volume: The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Well, The Science of Being Great, How to Get What You Want and more: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of Making of the Man Who Can or How to Promote Yourself and New Science of Living and Healing or Health Through New Thought and Fasting”, p.69, e-artnow

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• Evil draws its power from indecision and concern for what other people think.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Thinking, People, Evil

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• Beige is the color of indecision.

  Paula Scher

  Color

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• The worst thing you can do is nothing.

  Terry Pratchett

  Motivational, Change, Positive

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• If you have a 2 or 3 year old who is not talking, you must start an early intervention program. The worst thing you can do with an autistic 3 year old is to do nothing.

  Temple Grandin

  Motivational, Change, Positive

  "The Most Inspiring Bits of Temple Grandin’s Reddit AMA" by Emily Shire, www.thedailybeast.com. November 17, 2014.

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• The best revenge is the massive success.

  Frank Sinatra

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Be decisive. A wrong decision is generally less disastrous than indecision.

  Bernhard Langer

  Golf, Decision, Wrong Decision

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• Some live in a state of passionate indecision.

  Mason Cooley

  Passionate, States

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• Indecision is the source of chaos." - Paris Skyle(Allies of the Night)

  Darren Shan

  Night, Paris, Allies

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• The worst decision is indecision.

  Ryan Harwood

  Decision, Worst

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• Indecision, doubt and fear. The members of this unholy trio are closely related; where one is found, the other two are close at hand.

  Napoleon Hill

  Hands, Two, Doubt

  Napoleon Hill (2007). “The Prosperity Bible: The Greatest Writings of All Time on the Secrets to Wealth and Prosperity”, p.201, Penguin

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