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 is the greatest thief of opportunity.

  Jim Rohn

  Opportunity, Thieves

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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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• 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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• The worst decision is indecision.

  Ryan Harwood

  Decision, Worst

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

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Consequence, Inaction

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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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• 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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• Through indecision opportunity is often lost.

  Publilius Syrus

  Opportunity, Lost

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• Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.

  George Canning

  Business, Mistake, Failure

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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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• 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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• Indecision may or may not be my problem.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Fear, May, Problem

  Song: Don Chu Know

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• When people get more frustrated by their indecision than by the situation that prompted it, clarity often follows.

  Carolyn Hax

  People, Frustrated, Clarity

  "Carolyn Hax Live: 'If you mean business, then speak business'". The Washington Post Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. July 1, 2016.

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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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• 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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• 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 form of self-abuse - be ready to step up!

  Suzanne Evans

  Self, Abuse, Steps

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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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• He who hesitates is sometimes saved.

  James Thurber

  Sometimes, Saved

  1945 The Thurber Carnival,'The Glass in the Field'.

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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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• More errors arise from inhibited indecision than from impulsive behavior.

  Morris L. Ernst

  Errors, Behavior, Arise

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• Some live in a state of passionate indecision.

  Mason Cooley

  Passionate, States

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