Hesitation Quotes

We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.

~ Stephen Jay Gould

It was one of those cases where you approve the broad, general principle of an idea but can't help being in a bit of a twitter at the prospect of putting it into practical effect. I explained this to Jeeves, and he said much the same thing had bothered Hamlet.

~ P.g. Wodehouse

Doubt is a creature within the air. It grows when someone hesitates.

~ Toba Beta

The only walls that exist are those you have placed in your mind. And whatever obstacles you conceive, exist only because you have forgotten what you have already achieved.

~ Suzy Kassem

Many if not most slaves would have each readily jumped, and many if not most slaves would each readily jump, at the opportunity to be a master, if such an opportunity presents or had presented itself.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If you can admit that you haven't yet understood everything,faith can fill the emptiness in heart to confront the hesitation.

~ Toba Beta

It sometimes requires ignorance and arrogance to know something for sure.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We’re like magnets, you know. Only I’m spinning, so I keep pulling you in and then pushing you away. I like you, but then you hurt me, so I run. I like you, but then something makes things feel impossible, so I turn away. And you. You’re so constant. Your orientation never wavers. You feel what you feel and you want what you want without hesitation or doubt. God, I envy that. I feel like if someone stripped away my hesitation and doubt that there’d be nothing left.

~ Paula Stokes

Delay is as dangerous as the wrong answer.

~ Frank Herbert

When my heart is better, less shrunken, I will throw her out there to love again, without hesitation, even knowing what we know.

~ Jennifer Harrison

She wanted to make sure she studied all the manuals thoroughly, but she had to admit that part of her hesitation was the unsettling length of the list of things that could go wrong if she mishandled the pressure.

~ Jaleigh Johnson

Naysayers are frightened of their own power.

~ T.f. Hodge

Only a few of us believe in reality of dreams and actuality of love, but we all devote ourselves to that uncertainty and hesitation.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

If someone doesn't care to accept you, respect you, believe in you, don't hesitate to move on and let them go. There are many who love and appreciate you just the way you are.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

No matter what you are dealing with in life, be it resentment or regret, bitterness or sadness, anger or apathy, hatred or hesitation, depression or disempowerment, disappointment or other destructive anxieties, painful envy or emotional turmoil, fear of isolation or thoughts of failure, keep in mind that if you are positive, positivity will find you and embrace you!

~ Widad Akreyi

Red flags are moments of hesitation that determine our destination.

~ Mandy Hale

So many words get lost. They leave the mouth and lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead leaves.

~ Nicole Krauss

If you hesitate to learn from others, you will never learn anything new.

~ Raaz Ojha

Hesitation and the fear of being judged kills more relationships than misunderstanding and arguments.

~ Himmilicious

What bothered me the most was the hesitation in his voice when he said that— like he was running out of time.

~ Katherine Mcintyre

Confidence is what we get when we take fear, face it and replace it.

~ Tim Fargo

On the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, at the dawn of decision, sat down to wait, and waiting died

~ George W. Cecil

Those who pretend as if they don't love you, are the ones who would hate to see you love another person.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

But at the same time, there must never be the least hesitation in giving up a position the moment it is shown to be untenable. It is not going too far to say that the greatness of a scientific investigator does not rest on the fact of his having never made a mistake, but rather on his readiness to admit that he has done so, whenever the contrary evidence is cogent enough.

~ William Bayliss

Fish held the silence for so long that I had to restrain myself from prodding her. That's never a good idea. Sometimes people hesitate because they don't have the courage to come out with whatever needs to be said, other times they desperately want to speak but can't find the words. Jabbing them prematurely tends to shut them up. Outwaiting them gives them the time to say more than they intend.

~ Adam-Troy Castro

Hesitating, I stood in the doorway to the room holding the proof of my sin.

~ A.b. Shepherd

Suddenly, I was just sure he was going to kiss me. He was there, I could feel his breath, the ground solid beneath us. But then something crossed his face, a thought, a hesitation, and he shifted slightly. Not now. Not yet. It was something I'd done so often - weighing what I could afford to risk, right at that moment - that I recognized it instantly. It was like looking in a mirror.

~ Sarah Dessen

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

If you don't doubt it, be 'bout it. Intuition is soul's watchman.

~ T.f. Hodge

Killing someone is different in practice than it is in theory. There are factors you can’t prepare for, feelings in the moment where you’ll question everything you thought you knew about yourself, other feelings that might follow you long after the deed is done.

~ Paula Stokes

Everyone has noticed the taste which cats have for pausing and lounging between the two leaves of a half-shut door. Who is there who has not said to a cat, “Do come in!” There are men who, when an incident stands half-open before them, have the same tendency to halt in indecision between two resolutions, at the risk of getting crushed through the abrupt closing of the adventure by fate. The over-prudent, cats as they are, and because they are cats, sometimes incur more danger than the audacious.

~ Victor Hugo

George's hand lifted and fell away again. It seemed an insult to imply that anything so small as a touch could stop the raw feeling in Sir Stephen's suddenly dark and haunted eyes.

~ Mette Ivie Harrison

I hesitate in everything, often without knowing why. How often I've sought – as my own version of the straight line, seeing it in my mind as the ideal straight line – the longest distance between two points. I've never had a knack for the active life. I've always taken wrong steps that no one else takes; I've always had to make an effort to do what comes naturally to other people. I've always wanted to achieve what others have achieved almost without wanting it. Between me and life there were always sheets of frosted glass that I couldn't tell were there by sight or by touch; I didn't live that life or that dimension. I was the daydream of what I wanted to be, and my dreaming began in my will: my goals were always the first fiction of what I never was.

~ Fernando Pessoa

You can't kill me. Even if you could, you can't bring yourself to do it. You'll hesitate. Again.

~ Richelle Mead

Kelsey breathed in deeply. “He asked me to stay.”“Here?”“Yes.”“For how long?”“Until . . . until I want to leave, I guess. But he doesn’t want me to go yet, and . . . I’m thinking ofaccepting the offer.”“Now he sounds like he’s proposing marriag

~ Maisey Yates

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

~ Ernest Hemingway

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

~ Publilius Syrus

The gospel sets us free to become the romantic leaders of our marriages without fright or hesitation. Because we have been forever wooed by Jesus, we are now free to forever woo our wives.

~ Tullian Tchividjian