Indecision Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• Endurance is frequently a form of indecision.

  Elizabeth Bibesco

  Endurance, Form, Self Realisation

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• Indecision is the greatest thief of opportunity.

  Jim Rohn

  Opportunity, Thieves

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• Greatness is never achieved through indecision.

  John Ortberg

  Greatness

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• Through indecision opportunity is often lost.

  Publilius Syrus

  Opportunity, Lost

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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 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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• Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.

  George Canning

  Business, Mistake, Failure

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• What is fear after all? It is indecision. You seek some way to resist, escape. There is none.

  Anne Rice

  Fear, Way

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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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• 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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• 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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• The confidence of ignorance will always overcome the indecision of knowledge.

  David Storey

  Confidence, Ignorance, Overcoming

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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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• 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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• 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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• We cannot look at Syria, and the evil that has arisen from the ashes of indecision, and think this is not the lowest point in the world's inability to protect and defend the innocent.

  Angelina Jolie

  Thinking, Evil, Inability

  "Angelina Jolie criticizes UN Security Council on Syria refugee crisis", www.foxnews.com. April 24, 2015.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Agnosticism is no excuse for indecision. If anything, it is a catalyst for action; for in shifting concern away from a future life and back to the present, it demands an ethics of empathy rather than a metaphysics of fear and hope.

  Stephen Batchelor

  Empathy, Demand, Shifting

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• 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.

  Maya Angelou

  Threat, Left Alone, Eternal

  Maya Angelou (2009). “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”, p.267, Random House

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