Indecision Quotes

• More is lost by indecision than wrong decision. Indecision is the thief of opportunity. It will steal you blind.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Opportunity, Decision, Thieves

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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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• 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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• To be constantly changing one's plans isn't decision at all-it's indecision.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Decision, Plans

  Rabindranath Tagore (1921). “The Wreck”

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• The worst decision is indecision.

  Ryan Harwood

  Decision, Worst

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• Indecision is a major time waster; 80% of decisions should be made the first time they come up

  Brian Tracy

  Decision, Firsts, Wasting Time

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• Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.

  George Canning

  Business, Mistake, Failure

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• Through indecision opportunity is often lost.

  Publilius Syrus

  Opportunity, Lost

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• Always remember, indecision is decision - usually against you.

  Venita VanCaspel

  Decision, Remember

  Venita VanCaspel (1983). “The power of money dynamics”, Simon & Schuster

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• Worry is a sustained form of fear caused by indecision

  Brian Tracy

  Fear, Worry, Form

  Brian Tracy (2005). “Create Your Own Future: How to Master the 12 Critical Factors of Unlimited Success”, p.170, BookBaby

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• Indecision is the greatest thief of opportunity.

  Jim Rohn

  Opportunity, Thieves

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• Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days... What you can do or think you can do, begin it. For boldness has magic, power, and genius in it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Mistake, Thinking

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• Opportunity never sneaks up on those who straddle the fence of indecision.

  Napoleon Hill

  Opportunity, Fence, Sneak

  Napoleon Hill (1997). “Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success”, p.67, Penguin

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• Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

  W. H. Murray

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Time, Poetry

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.6, Faber & Faber

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• Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement; and it is better to be driven out of your senses with thinking which of two things you ought to do than to do nothing whatever, and be utterly uninteresting to all the world.

  Margaret Oliphant

  Thinking, Two, Movement

  Margaret Oliphant (2014). “Miss Marjoribanks”, p.430, The Floating Press

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• Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.

  Bertrand Russell

  Life, Happiness, Procrastination

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.40, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Inaction and indecision in the present is because of fear of consequences of the future.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Consequence, Inaction

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• Indecision is debilitating; it feeds upon itself; it is, one might almost say, habit-forming. Not only that, but it is contagious; it transmits itself to others.

  Heinz Hopf

  Decision, Might, Habit

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• Once he makes up his mind, he's full of indecision. - On Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Oscar Levant

  Mind, Dwight D Eisenhower, Dwight

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• There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for whom the lighting of every cigar, the drinking of every cup, the time of rising and going to bed every day, and the beginning of every bit of work, are subjects of express volitional deliberation.

  William James

  Drinking, Bed, Rising

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.122, Courier Corporation

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• Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader.

  George S. Patton

  Inspirational, Decisions You Make, Leader

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• Indecision is the seedling of fear.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Fear, Decision

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.193, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Inspirational, Life, Running

  See Hightower 2

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• Indecisiveness wears a person out.

  E. L. Konigsburg

  Indecisiveness, Persons

  E.L. Konigsburg (2011). “A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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