Top 100 Quotes About Indecision
#1. He had the feeling that he must make a decision, and though he was used to making many decisions every day, this time he was beset with uncertainty; in fact he had no idea what was being asked of him
Amos Oz
#2. You're torn between wanting to be closer and wanting to push me away," he said. "So I vote for closer. I'll always vote for closer.
Martina Boone
#3. Not only is evil what irrupts from indecision and ambiguity, but irruptive anger, malignity, is the structure of ambiguity itself
Marcia Sa Cavalcante Schuback
#6. MEDIOCRITY IS A CHOICE... PROCRASTINATION IS A VIRUS THE FIRST ERROR IS INDECISION
Marsha Wright
#7. I hope that I'm not the type of person who, standing at the doorway to hell, strikes a heroic pose and then starts frowning with indecision.
Liu Xiaobo
#8. To shirk taking of vows betrays indecision and want of resolution.
Mahatma Gandhi
#9. For better or worse, whether it is a sign of aesthetic complexity or of intellectual indecision, this novel [Frankenstein] offers equally fertile ground to those readers who like their meanings ambiguous and indeterminate and to those who prefer to discern a deeply important doctrine.
Richard T. Nash
#11. I am always jumping into the sausage grinder and deciding, even before I'm half ground, that I don't want to be a sausage after all.
Jessamyn West
#12. 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.
Napoleon Hill
#13. how do you get beyond the self-doubt and indecision? How do you find the truth?" "You can never know for sure, Dors, you just choose and go on. Usually there follows regret instead of reward, so you just choose again. In the end, you fade away.
Jeffery Brown
#14. Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
Jim Rohn
#15. Always remember, indecision is decision - usually against you.
Venita VanCaspel
#16. He lifted his hand to knock, but then he stopped. He could go neither forward nor back, so he simply stayed that way - hand frozen in the air.
Anne Ursu
#17. If forensic analysts confiscated your calendar and e-mail records and Web browsing history for the past six months, what would they conclude are your core priorities?
Chip Heath
#18. Why do you hover in the mid-course?
Guigo
#19. The other often much prefers a clear answer, even if it is No, than continued indecision and waffling.
William Ury
#20. Sixteen times a year, all thirty-two NFL teams give us what we're looking for: speed, skill, violence, fantasy league orgasms and a final score. No confusion. No doubt. No indecision. A winner and a loser.
Mike Barnicle
#21. Indecision is a virus that can run through an army and destroy its will to win or even to survive.
Wendell Mayes
#22. Every man hath the right to doubt his task, and to forsake it from time to time; but what he must not do is forget it. Whoever doubteth not himself is unworthy
for in his unquestioning belief in his ability, he commiteth the sin of pride. Blessed are they who go through moments of indecision.
Paulo Coelho
#23. During these times of indecision when all the old answers are proven false, the people look back to the dead to give them a clue, they call first upon one and then upon another of those who have acted in the past.
Ralph Ellison
#24. Doubt is no more than indecision taking up residence in your heart.
Unknown
#25. I can't tell which is the worse fate--to question everything, to be paralyzed by indecision, or to question nothing and move through the world blind to any other way of existing save for your own.
Laura Thalassa
#26. I don't do anything with my life except romanticize and decay with indecision.
Allen Ginsberg
#28. Error often is to be preferred to indecision.
Aaron Burr
#30. What is fear after all? It is indecision. You seek some way to resist, escape. There is none.
Anne Rice
#31. I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.
Alan Rickman
#32. Life will forgive mistakes - Life will not forgive indecision ... Do SOMETHING, take a step.
Bob Proctor
#33. 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 F. Stanley
#34. I think possibly what people working for one hate the most is indecision. Even if I'm completely unsure, I'll pretend I know exactly what I'm talking about and make a decision. The most important thing I can do is try and make myself very clearly understood.
Anna Wintour
#35. Luckily, even as a young man not yet become himself, John Bridgens had two things besides indecision that kept him from self-destruction - books and a sense of irony.
Dan Simmons
#36. Jem's face showed brief indecision on the ethics of withholding his own dime, but his innate courtesy won and he shifted his dime to his pocket. I did likewise with no qualms.
Harper Lee
#37. There was some indecision as to when I was born. My sister said it was 1916. I'd lost my birth certificate.
Michael Gough
#38. Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
Oscar Levant
#39. The man of decision cannot be stopped! The man of indecision cannot be started! Take your own choice.
Napoleon Hill
#40. You were brought to where you are standing now because the decisions you took some time back have held you by your hands and dragged you this far.
Israelmore Ayivor
#41. Decisions is the seedling of fear! Remember this, as you read. Indecision crystalizes into doubt, the two blend and become fear! The "blending" process often is slow. This is one reason why these three enemies are so dangerous. They germinate and grow without their presence being observed.
Napoleon Hill
#42. God is taking a nap within my soul. I ponder whether to wake Him or not.
Harley King
#46. The confidence of ignorance will always overcome the indecision of knowledge
David Storey
#49. To be constantly changing one's plans isn't decision at all-it's indecision.
Rabindranath Tagore
#50. Many times through the ages, like as not the chance appears, but because of indecision, man's fond hopes are drowned in tears.
Ted Turner
#51. Am I the girl/ Whose giggle crinkles her big eyes/ Or the woman whose small eyes/ Crinkle her vision?
Mansi Tejpal
#52. Even Billy Andrews' boy is going - and Jane's only son - and Diana's little Jack," said Mrs. Blythe. "Priscilla's son has gone from Japan and Stella's from Vancouver - and both the Rev. Jo's boys. Philippa writes that her boys 'went right away, not being afflicted with her indecision.
L.M. Montgomery
#53. But I still remained paralyzed by indecision, reluctance, and endless second-guessing ...
Emily Giffin
#54. 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
#55. If you wish to be part of my life, the door is always open.The door remains open if you choose to leave..but don't just hover in the doorway with indecision because you're blocking the traffic!
Karen Gibbs
#56. When people don't do what they want, they don't know what to do.
Marty Rubin
#58. Successful people are decisive people. When opportunities come their way, they evaluate them carefully, make a decision, and take appropriate action. They know that indecision wastes time that could be spent on more productive tasks.
Napoleon Hill
#59. To him, a stilted geometric love of arrangement was "system," and indefatigable and feverish interest in the pettiest facets of day-to-day bureaucracy was "industry", indecision when right was "caution", and blind stubbornness when wrong, "determination.
Isaac Asimov
#60. Life is choice. You can choose to be who you dream to be or not to be. It all lies in the choice you make every day!
Israelmore Ayivor
#61. Indecision and reveries are the anesthetics of constructive action
Sylvia Plath
#63. By dawn he had surrendered, gratefully, to the old inertia, the product of always seeing both sides of every question.
Robert Harris
#64. More is lost by indecision than wrong decision. Indecision is the thief of opportunity. It will steal you blind.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#65. She raised a little mountain for the ants to climb over. She reduced them to a frenzy of indecision by this interference in their cosmogony. Some ran this way, others that.
Virginia Woolf
#66. Don't forget, when you refuse to make right choices, you have already chosen to live the wrong way! Indecision is a decision to live wrongly!
Israelmore Ayivor
#67. Worry is a sustained form of fear caused by indecision
Brian Tracy
#68. I'm plagued with indecision in my life. I can't figure out what to order in a restaurant.
Chuck Close
#69. Fears, indecision, and frustration feed on words. Without words they usually stop ... Words are at times good for looking back, but they are confining when I need to act in the present.
Hugh Prather
#70. The worst thing is to have all that clout and not know your own mind. If she says her (Marilyn Monroe's)favorite color is beige, that has to be a definite possibility. Then she will be as dangerous as a Chinese Empress.
Colin Clark
#71. We're making decisions right now that shape our lives. Even indecision is a decision. What's going on today is a result of the choices we've made in the past.
Toni Sorenson
#72. The phrase "having it all" has little to do with having what we want.
Jennifer Senior
#73. Indecision is fatal. It is better to make a wrong decision than build up a habit of indecision. If you're wallowing in indecision, you certainty can't act - and action is the basis of success
Marie Beynon Lyons Ray
#74. I don't believe for a second that weightlifting is a sport. They pick up a heavy thing and put it down again. To me, that's indecision.
Paula Poundstone
#75. You are caught between all that was and all that must be. You feel lost. Mark my words: as soon as the bones mend, you will forget about the fracture.
Haruki Murakami
#76. Indecision has a way of not moving forward. And who says time doesn't stand still?
C.C. Wyatt
#78. Bertrand Russell writes that the painful thing about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.
Rollo May
#79. Things can harden meaningfully in the moment of indecision
John Ashbery
#80. Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days. Whatever you can do or think you can do, begin it. For boldness has magic, power, and genius in it.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#81. The attractions of ceramics lie partly in its contradictions. It is both difficult and easy, with an element beyond our control. It is both extremely fragile and durable. Like 'Sumi' ink painting, it does not lend itself to erasures and indecision.
Isamu Noguchi
#82. We don't have time for such uncertainty because it reliably breeds indecision, and indecision is one of the mothers of failure.
Dean Koontz
#84. Life is a checkerboard, and the player opposite you is time. If you hesitate before moving, or neglect to move promptly, your men will be wiped off the board by time. You are playing against a partner who will not tolerate indecision!
Elbert Hubbard
#85. A letter is a most hazardous business, the written word allows no indecision, either distance or familiarity will emphasize the tone the letter establishes, and you end up with a relationship that is fiction
Jose Saramago
#87. Once he makes up his mind, he's full of indecision. - On Dwight D. Eisenhower
Oscar Levant
#88. In times of storm and tempest, of indecision and desolation, a book already known and loved makes better reading than something new and untried ... nothing is so warming and companionable.
Elizabeth Goudge
#89. Followers often hesitate to act, out of fear that they'll do the wrong thing. Leaders aren't afraid to make a call, even when they're not sure if it's the right one. They'd rather make a decision and be wrong than suffer from the paralysis of indecision.
Anonymous
#90. Every journey taken always includes the path not taken, the detour through hell, the crossroads of indecision and the long way home.
Shannon L. Alder
#91. Indecision may come from an instinctive hunch that there's more you need to know - which means it's time to learn everything you can about the pros and cons of each option. You can continue on this track, however, only as long as you're unearthing genuinely new information.
Martha Beck
#92. Perhaps we can conceive of the ironist as the fetishist's apprentice, reaching out for all readers, ensnaring them in a tangle of ambiguity, uncertainty and indecision from which there is no escape. Irony, quite possibly, makes fetishists of us all.
Janet Beizer
#94. INDECISION NOW!' isn't a battle cry that's going to rouse anybody's blood. But I sometimes wonder if it isn't the sanest one.
Phillip Andrew Bennett Low
#95. Dare to keep moving when it is a must and dare to keep waiting when you have to, but note, you shall always keep waiting if you keep waiting and you shall always keep moving when you keep moving!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#96. Inaction and indecision in the present is because of fear of consequences of the future.
L. Ron Hubbard
#97. Indecision is a form of self-abuse - be ready to step up!
Suzanne Evans
#98. Nobody is responsible for your sorrows and poverty, not even the devil. It is the work of the enemies of time that lives in some men, and their names are, 'Laziness and Procrastination'.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#99. When leaders lack self-awareness, they doubt themselves; uncertain about their abilities; unclear about the direction to take on each turn, and more...
Assegid Habtewold
#100. The problem, simply put, is that we cannot choose everything simultaneously. So we live in danger of becoming paralyzed by indecision, terrified that every choice might be the wrong choice.
Elizabeth Gilbert
