Top 50 He Who Hesitates Quotes
#1. He who hesitates is a damned fool.
Mae West
#2. He who hesitates, meditates horizontally
Ed Parker
#3. The Statesman who, knowing his instrument to be ready, and seeing War inevitable, hesitates to strike first is guilty of a crime against his country.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#5. This is the last moment of contentment untainted by sorrow, when the brain hesitates before delivering the message to the heart that it knows it must.
Dexter Palmer
#6. Mastery has been achieved when one neither makes a mistake nor hesitates in the performance.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#7. I am a moth to his flame, and he never hesitates to burn me.
Anna Todd
#9. The longer one hesitates before the door, the more estranged one becomes.
Franz Kafka
#10. When life still hesitates to touch us, when neither duty nor guilt dares lay a hand upon us
Thomas Mann
#11. He lifts his hand and hesitates when I shudder. His lips press together in a line. He will pay for touching you.
Katie McGarry
#12. To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men. This is such a common truth that one hesitates to mention it, yet it appears to have been overlooked by the majority of Christians today.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#13. Usually, when you slice a person, he backs off or atleast hesitates. And he's more cautious when you have drawn his blood. But these things just keep coming. Their intestines can be falling out, but it doesn't matter.
Maria V. Snyder
#14. When under attack, it is necessary to evaluate the situation and to decide instantly upon a proper course of action, to be carried out immediately with all the force you can bring to bear. He who hesitates is indeed lost. Do not soliloquize. Do not delay. Be decisive.
Jeff Cooper
#16. While Eeyore frets ... and Piglet hesitates ... and Rabbit calculates ... and Owl pontificates ... Pooh just is.
Benjamin Hoff
#17. The new light above my table is a great improvement. With all this darkness around me I feel less alone. (Pause.) In a way. (Pause.) I love to get up and move about in it, then back here to ... (hesitates) ... me. (Pause.)
Samuel Beckett
#19. In exploring new and doubtful tracts of speculation, the mind strikes out true and original views; as a drop of water hesitates at first what direction it will take, but afterwards follows its own course.
William Hazlitt
#20. Doubt is a creature within the air.
It grows when someone hesitates.
Toba Beta
#21. The law rarely hesitates in declaring its own meaning; but the Judges are frequently puzzled to find out the meaning of others.
William Blackstone
#23. If one hesitates in his path, let him not proceed. Let him respect his doubts, for doubts, too, may have some divinity in them.
Henry David Thoreau
#25. The examining physician often hesitates to make the necessary examination because it involves soiling the finger.
William James Mayo
#26. I'm drawn to almost any piece of writing with the words 'divine love' and 'impeachment' in the first sentence. But I know the word 'divine' makes many progressive people run screaming for their cute little lives, and so one hesitates to use it.
Anne Lamott
#27. The true Mason never hesitates to use the working tools to correct personal flaws.
William Howard Taft
#28. While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior. - HENRY C . L I NK
John C. Maxwell
#29. Is that what you were doing in my room?" he asks after a moment.
I sigh. Why am I telling him any of this? "Yes. I was on assignment."
"I was your assignment?"
"Yes."
He hesitates a moment, then grins. "That's kind of hot.
Rachel Morgan
#31. Only a blind man can easily define what light is. When you do not know, you are bold. Ignorance is always bold; knowledge hesitates. And the more you know, the more you feel that the ground underneath is dissolving. The more you know, the more you feel how ignorant you are.
Osho
#32. An angry woman is vindictive beyond measure, and hesitates at nothing in her bitterness.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
#33. Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#34. My admiration stranger within our gates, who hesitates not to speak the truth.
George S. Clason
#36. We deserve each other, Luis ... and I need you just as much as you need me. Hold me."
He steps closer, but hesitates.
"If I do, mi chava, I can't promise I'll be able to let you go.
Simone Elkeles
#37. Afraid lest he be caught up in a net of words, tripped up, bewildered and so defeated-thrown aside-a man hesitates to write down his innermost convictions.
William Carlos Williams
#38. She wavers, she hesitates: in a word, she is a woman.
Jean Racine
#39. In the digital world, he who hesitates is abandoned. So you have to generate 3-D excitement with as many devices as you can find.
Howard Stringer
#40. Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue.
Andre Breton
#41. The persistent man with a poor plan stands a better chance of winning than the man with a perfect plan who hesitates and waivers in carrying it out.
Napoleon Hill
#42. One hesitates to call them living: one hesitates to call their death death, in the face of which they have no fear, as they are too tired to understand.
Primo Levi
#43. It was like that moment when the roller coaster has reached the top of its first mountain, hesitates a moment . . . tilts . . . plunges . . . and you fall with a sudden blast of hot summer air in your face and a pressure against your chest and your stomach floating somewhere behind you. In
Stephen King
#44. One hesitates to open a new chapter when the old one is not resolved.
Jude Morgan
#45. She understands now what she, in all her worry, had forgotten. That even as she hesitates and wavers, even as she thinks too much and moves too cautiously, she doesn't always have to get it right. It's okay to look back, even as you move forward.
Jennifer E. Smith
#46. He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit.
Ian McEwan
#47. BITTER: always a bit unanticipated. Coffee, chocolate, rosemary, citrus rinds, wine. Once, when we were wild, it told us about poison. The mouth still hesitates at each new encounter. We urge it forward, say, Adapt. Now, enjoy it.
Stephanie Danler
#48. And your man?' He hesitates. 'Long dead too?' It is the most delicate way that can be contrived, to ask a man if he has killed someone.
Hilary Mantel
#49. No one rises above who he or she has been without first having fallen down. The best time - in fact, the only time - to make a real change in your life is in the moment of seeing the need for it. He who hesitates always gets lost in the hundred reasons why tomorrow is a better day to get started.
Guy Finley
#50. The story was clearly over, as in juggling when the ball you throw up finds the moment to come down, hesitates as if it might not, and then drops at the same speed of that celestial light. And life is no longer good but just what you happen to be holding.
E.L. Doctorow