Hesitant Quotes

• Many women have more power than they recognize, and they're very hesitant to use it, for they fear they won't be loved.

  Patricia Schroeder

  Use

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• Bing was always hesitant to accept appreciation in any form.

  Bob Crosby

  Appreciation, Accepting, Form

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• I'm not sure Americans are hesitant to do this again - to fight another war, because it looked to them like a courageous and terrific endeavor.

  Ashleigh Banfield

  War, Fighting, Courageous

  "Even Paranoids Have Enemies" by Norman Horowitz, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 7, 2007.

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• I'm a bit hesitant to do anything because I'm actually kind of lazy and I'd like an easier life from now on. The world's a massive place with lots of early mornings and late starts when you're working.

  Robbie Williams

  Morning, Lazy, World

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• It's funny, though, because when I first started going to races after we met, I was extremely nervous. It's like being backstage and hoping you don't trip over something or break an amp or accidentally speak into a live microphone, so I was really hesitant.

  Ashley Judd

  Race, Firsts, Speak

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• My response, a dubious and hesitant one, is that it has been and may continue to be, in the time that is left to me, more productive to live out the question than to try to answer it in abstract terms.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Trying, Dubious, Answers

  Interview with David Attwell, www.dn.se. December 8, 2003.

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• Although I've had several major career changes, I was extremely hesitant about making some of them.

  Vinton Cerf

  Careers, Career Change, Majors

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• Just go on..and faith will soon return.

  Jean le Rond d'Alembert

  Math, Goes On, Return

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• The Green Shore is an engrossing novel about political oppression, played out on an intimate family scale. Bakopoulos charts the subtle, gnawing pressures of life under the Greek junta - the steady drip of daily coercion - with an exacting empathy. In particular, her depiction of love under tyranny - by turns hesitant, furtive and liberating - is as astute as it is moving.

  Peter Ho Davies

  Moving, Empathy, Political

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• He lifed his head and looked down at her seriously. "Could you," he began, then he had to clear his throat. "Could you learn to be fond of me?" he asked. "With enough time?" She looked at him in surprise. It was the first time in all their acquaintance that she'd heard him sound the least bit hesitant. "I don't need to learn anything," she said, before she thought better of it.

  Lynn Kurland

  Sound, Enough Time, Needs

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• The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers. No one ever overcomes difficulties by going at them in a hesitant, doubtful way.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Uplifting, Courage, Heart

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (2010). “Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder - Volume One: On Wisdom and Virtues”, p.52, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Men are less hesitant about harming someone who makes himself loved than one who makes himself feared because love is held together by a chain of obligation which, since men are wretched creatures, is broken on every occasion in which their own interests are concerned; but fear is sustained by dread of punishment which will never abandon you.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Love Is, Men, Broken

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• Without a future well designed we take hesitant steps.

  Jim Rohn

  Steps, Wells

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• I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens.

  Walter Dean Myers

  War, Sacrifice, People

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• You have to feel confident. If you don't, then you're going to be hesitant and defensive, and there'll be a lot of things working against you.

  Clint Eastwood

  Feels, Ifs

  "'I figured I'd retire gradually, just ride off into the sunset ...'". Interview with Philip French, www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2007.

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• Far too many women are hesitant, and remain trapped in jobs for which they are over-qualified or paid beneath their worth.

  Janet Street-Porter

  Jobs, Equal Pay, Qualified

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• My definition of success is doing what you love. I feel many people do things because they feel they have to, and are hesitant to risk following their passion.

  Tony Hawk

  Passion, Doing What You Love, People

  Interview with Gary Cohn, Entrepreneur Magazine, October 2009.

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• We have to be vigilant on two fronts: (1) to not let our anti-imperialism lead to the defense of authoritarian regimes in the region and (2) to not let our enthusiasm for rebellion lead to cheering on the cruise missiles from US warships. These two sirens should worry us as we make our hesitant way alongside the rebirth of a New Left in the Arab world.

  Vijay Prashad

  Cheer, Two, Worry

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• Most governments only want to deploy a peacekeeping force where there is a peace agreement and there is peace to keep. They are very hesitant about putting their men and women in harm's way. It is extremely difficult to get the troops if you do not have the consent of the country where you are deploying.

  Kofi Annan

  Country, Men, Want

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• Since I'm fortunate enough to be neither hesitant nor indecisive, I've always made a point of consulting my partners and associates whenever a major decision has to be made. This is not to say that I have always been right!

  Guy de Rothschild

  Decision, Management, Indecisive

  Guy de Rothschild (1985). “The whims of fortune”

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• Excellence is my presence. Never tense, never hesitant.

  The Notorious B.I.G.

  Excellence, Tense

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• If you are at a hard place in life, hesitant to ask for help, God invites you to ask Him so He can meet your need.

  David Jeremiah

  God, Christian, Religious

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• If we are demoralized, sad and only complain, we’ll not solve our problems. If we only pray for a solution, we’ll not solve our problems. We need to face them, to deal with them without violence, but with confidence - and never give up. If you adopt a non-violent approach, but are also hesitant within, you’ll not succeed. You have to have confidence and keep up your efforts - in other words, never give up.

  Dalai Lama

  Giving Up, Effort, Faces

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• I don't tend to do category fiction very well. One of my problems when I was starting off was that publishers were hesitant to handle my books because they were never sure what I was going to do next.

  Joanne Harris

  Book, Fiction, Next

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