Hesitation Quotes

• Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true.

  Patrick Swayze

  Point Break, Surfing, Causes

  "Fictional character: Bodhi". "Point Break", www.imdb.com. 1991.

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• Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.

  Thomas Huxley

  Self Confidence, Mind, Acting

  Leonard Huxley, Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.116, Cambridge University Press

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• Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Birthday, Risk, Age

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.

  Tim Ferriss

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  William Shakespeare (1838). “The Pictorial edition of the works of Shakspere, ed. by C. Knight. [8 vols., including a vol. entitled William Shakspere, by C. Knight].”, p.281

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• Take one more deep breath, savor it, and plunge forward without thinking. Do not allow yourself hesitation. Do not allow yourself a moment of doubt. Follow your instincts and go where you never would have considered possible.

  Corey Taylor

  Thinking, Doubt, Moments

  Corey Taylor (2014). “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Heaven: (or, How I Made Peace with the Paranormal and Stigmatized Zealots and Cynics)”, p.21, Da Capo Press

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• Even if you have to go through hell - go without hesitation.

  Albert Einstein

  Hell, Ifs

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• Hesitation only enlarges, magnifies the fear. Take action promptly. Be decisive.

  David J. Schwartz

  Action

  David J. Schwartz (2014). “The Magic of Thinking Big”, p.42, Penguin

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• If you lack initiative, recognize that the problem comes from the inside, not from others. Determine why you hesitate to take action. Does risk scare you? Are you discouraged by past failures? Do you not see the potential that opportunity offers? Find the source of your hesitation, and address it. You won't be able to move forward on the outside until you can move forward on the inside.

  John C. Maxwell

  Moving, Past, Opportunity

  John C. Maxwell (2007). “The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader: Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow”, p.47, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• On an important decision one rarely has 100% of the information needed for a good decision no matter how much one spends or how long one waits. And, if one waits too long, he has a different problem and has to start all over. This is the terrible dilemma of the hesitant decision maker.

  Robert K. Greenleaf

  Long, Decision, Waiting

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• Live for each second without hesitation

  Elton John

  Ambition

  Song: I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues

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• Enthusiasm is a volcano on whose top never grows the grass of hesitation.

  Khalil Gibran

  Volcanoes, Enthusiasm, Grass

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• No Fear, No Hesitation, No Surprise, No Doubt

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Motivational, Art, Doubt

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• Move forward with no second-guessing, no guilt trips, no hesitation. Your purpose is to recreate yourself anew in each moment.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Moving, Guilt, Purpose

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Nov 09, 2012

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• On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Inspiring, Lying, Victory

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• When the heart is flooded with love there is no room in it for fear, for doubt, for hesitation.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Inspirational, Heart, Doubt

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1955). “Gift from the Sea”

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• Good friends are those who care without hesitation, who remember without limitation and who love even without communication

  Philippos Syrigos

  Friendship, Best Friend, Communication

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• If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

  Blaise Pascal

  Funny, God, Humorous

  "Pensées". Book by Blaise Pascal, 1669.

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• Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

  George Sand

  Kindness, Regret, Giving

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My procrastination which has held me back was born of fear ... now I know that to conquer fear I must always act without hesitation and the flutters in my heart will vanish. Now I know that action reduces the lion of terror.... I will walk where the failure fears to walk.

  Og Mandino

  Heart, Procrastination, Greatness

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• Be like a train; go in the rain, go in the sun, go in the storm, go in the dark tunnels! Be like a train; concentrate on your road and go with no hesitation!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Rain, Dark, Tunnels

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• The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.

  John Ruskin

  Relationship, Mean, Humility

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• I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.

  John Ruskin

  Motivational, Believe, Humility

  John Ruskin (1868). “Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin”, p.348

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• It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at pictures; one must, without doubt, without hesitations, with assurance, admire what is beautiful.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Beautiful, Book, Reading

  Vincent van Gogh, Vincent Willem Gogh (1927). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...”

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• I prefer my hesitations, my false paths, my stammering, to a preconceived idea.

  Robert Doisneau

  Ideas, Path, Stammering

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