Indecisiveness Quotes

• 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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• Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.

  Khalil Gibran

  Attitude, Volcanoes, Doe

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• What you can do, or think you can, begin it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Gymnastics, Thinking, Decision Making

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “Lose The Day Loitering”

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• Indecisiveness and procrastination are the chosen ways of life for most people. They follow the course of least resistance, which is to do nothing. This provides a security blanket of never being wrong, never making mistakes, never being disappointed and never failing. But they will also never succeed.

  David Peoples

  Mistake, Procrastination, People

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• You have to be decisive. Indecisiveness is a startup killer.

  Sam Altman

  Killers

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• Indecisiveness wears a person out.

  E. L. Konigsburg

  Indecision, Persons

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

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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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• Coming out of indecisiveness and being determined is the pre condition for being called young.

  Narendra Modi

  India, Determined, Youth

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• At some point, deliberation begins to look more like indecisiveness which then becomes a way of emboldening our enemies and allies and causing our allies to question our resolve. So we shouldn't let one component of this determine our national security here which depends on providing an Afghanistan which denies a safe haven to terrorists as well as stabilizing Pakistan. Those are our two national security interests at stake in Afghanistan.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Safe Haven, Two, Enemy

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• The indecisiveness and ambivalence so devastatingly described by both of Obama's previous secretaries of defense, Leon Panetta and Bob Gates, are already beginning to characterize the Syria campaign.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Bob, Defense, Campaigns

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• I'm not an intimate of Donald Trump, but I have great instincts about people, and I have fairly good skill at sizing people up, and it's not phony. You can tell when somebody's talking to you and not really hearing you. I've been around powerful people ask me what I think about things, and I can tell they're not really listening. They just asked, to ask, try to score points that way. Trump listens. But you don't get the impression that he's listening from a position of indecisiveness, indecision or confusion. I've never met anybody with the energy this guy's got, either.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Powerful, Thinking, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• In the end, I think, the state's rigidity is a function of its own insecurity, its indecisiveness.

  Ai Weiwei

  Thinking, Insecurity, Ends

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I was always an unusual girl. My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due north, no fixed personality; just an inner indecisiveness that was as wide and as wavering as the ocean.

  Lana Del Rey

  Girl, Wise, Mother

  "The Year in News 2012". pitchfork.com. December 28, 2012.

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