- Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old. – Oscar Wilde
- Never hesitate to ask a lesser person. – Confucius
- If you hesitate, some bolder hand will stretch out before you and get the prize. – Unknown
- Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured. – Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
- Hesitation only enlarges, magnifies the fear. Take action promptly. Be decisive. – David J. Schwartz
- Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous. – Georg C. Lichtenberg
- He who hesitates is poor. – Mel Brooks
- Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt. – William Shakespeare
- In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best. – Euripides
- When you doubt, abstain. – Ambrose Bierce
- When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand. – Raymond Chandler
- Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation. – Thomas Huxley
- There must be a reason why people hesitate; uncertainty is one, no courage another. – Ron De Jonge
- To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so. – Sir Walter Scott
- Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith. – Paul Tillich
- Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age. – Ernest Hemingway
- The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it. – J. M. Barrie
- The worst part is doubt. When you doubt yourself, which we are taught to do, you get lost. – Kevin Eubanks
- Doubt grows with knowledge. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again. – Seneca The Younger
- Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning. – Vera Farmiga
- Your doubts are generated by fear, and fear is a series of distorted thoughts. – Leandra Medine
- Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will. – Suzy Kassem
- Hesitation will get you killed. – Laurell K. Hamilton
- Never hesitate to hold out your hand; never hesitate to accept the outstretched hand of another. – Pope John XXIII
- If in doubt, don’t. If still in doubt, do what’s right. – Donald Rumsfeld
- While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior. – Henry C. Link
- Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom. – Charles Caleb Colton
- The simple practice of hesitation helps you stop reacting blindly to everything that happens. – Unknown
- Doubt is the father of invention. – Galileo Galilei
- Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone. – Thomas Carlyle
- Without doubt, you are recognized for the last role you played. – Roger Moore
- The more you hesitate in a game, the more your chance of getting hit. Your focus isn’t there. When you hesitate, usually you’re in trouble. – Sidney Crosby
- The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Doubt is the brother of shame. – Erik Erikson
- Doubt your doubts before you doubt your beliefs. – Chace Crawford
- Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise. – William Shakespeare
- On the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, at the dawn of decision, sat down to wait, and waiting died. – Sam Ewing
- When you start to doubt yourself the real world will eat you alive. – Henry Rollins
- Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible. – Ambrose Bierce
He who hesitates is sometimes saved. – James Thurber
- You should never hesitate to trade your cow for a handful of magic beans. – Tom Robbins
- Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, “It might have been”. – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
- The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized – never knowing. – Jim Rohn
- You can tell when something’s not moving forward anymore. When the doubts you have about it don’t go away. – Jeffrey Eugenides
- Second thoughts oftentimes are the very worst of all thoughts. – William Shenstone
- Never hesitate to steal a good idea. – Al Neuharth
- Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness. – Leonardo da Vinci
- Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door. – Benjamin Jowett