#Indecision Quotes

“Though inclination be as sharp as will,My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent,And, like a man to double business bound,I stand in pause where I shall first begin,And both neglect.”

“Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is slicked o'er with the pale cast of thought”

“The native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought; and enterprises of great pitch and moment, With this regard, their currents turn awry, and lose the name of action.”

“... I am At war 'twixt will and will not.”

“Decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.”

“When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.”

“No decision is, in itself, a decision.”

“Habit is the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. Full half the time of such a man goes to the deciding, or regretting, of matters which ought to be so ingrained in him as practically not to exist for his consciousness at all.”

“There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.”

“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.”

“Everybody has noticed the way cats stop and loiter in a half-open door. Hasn't everyone said to a cat: For heavens sake why don't you come in? With opportunity half-open in front of them, there are men who have a similar tendency to remain undecided between two solutions, at the risk of being crushed by fate abruptly closing the opportunity. The overprudent, cats as they are, and because they are cats, sometimes run more danger than the bold”

“I used to be indecisive, now I'm not so sure.”

“The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all.”

“I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.”

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

“My mind changes often ... People who have no mind can easily be steadfast and firm, but when a man is loaded down to the guards with it, as I am, every heavy sea of foreboding or inclination, maybe of indolence, shifts the cargo.”

“People who fail to accumulate money, without exception, have the habit of reaching decisions, if at all, very slowly, and of changing these decisions quickly and often.”

“The worst of all human ailments: indecision.”

“Until a man selects a DEFINITE PURPOSE IN LIFE, he dissipates his energies & spreads his thoughts over so many subjects & in so many different directions that they lead not to power, but to indecision & weakness.”

“Worry is a state of mind based upon fear. It works slowly, but persistently. It is insidious and subtle. Step by step it “digs itself in” until it paralyzes ones reasoning faculty, destroys self-confidence and initiative. Worry is a form of sustained fear caused by indecision therefore it is a state of mind which can be controlled.”

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

“Indecision is the seedling of fear.”

“Indecision, doubt and fear. The members of this unholy trio are closely related; where one is found, the other two are close at hand.”

“The man of decision cannot be stopped! The man of indecision cannot be started! Take your own choice.”

“To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision. Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity. It becomes easier to die and avoid conflict than to maintain a constant battle with the superior forces of maturity.”

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

“There is nothing in the world more pitiable than an irresolute man, oscillating between two feelings, who would willingly unite the two and who does not perceive that nothing can unite them”

“Indecision is the greatest thief of opportunity.”

“It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.”

“Not only do I not know what's going on, I wouldn't know what to do about it if I did.”

“The wavering mind is but a base possession.”

“My trouble was I had a mind but I couldn't make it up!”

“We spend our days in deliberating, and we end them without coming to any resolve.”

“But - I cannot make a choice. I have my own sorrow, but I suffer with him, too; I share his pain. I understand all - that is my trouble.”