A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
Golda Meir

Anyone who'd sell out a whole town wouldn't hesitate to double-cross one man.
Arnold Rothstein

But if, on the other hand, we should be justified in rejecting it, if there testified on oath, then, supposing our rules of evidence to be sound, we may be excused if we hesitate elsewhere to give it credence.
Simon Greenleaf

By the way, the secret of speaking French is confidence. Whether you are right or wrong, you don't hesitate.
Joseph Epstein

Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.
Maimonides

For example, I wouldn't hesitate to sit somebody down if he wasn't performing, even if he was the No. 1 player in the world. I've been sat down before.
Payne Stewart

I am now in that happy comfortable state that I do not hesitate to indulge in any fancy in regard to diet, but watch the consequences, and do not continue any course which adds to weight or bulk and consequent discomfort.
William Banting

I didn't hesitate to kiss my father in public. And that's how I tried to raise my children. We're physical.
Payne Stewart

I do not hesitate one second to state clearly and unmistakably: I belong to the American resistance movement which fights against American imperialism, just as the resistance movement fought against Hitler.
Paul Robeson

I do not hesitate to say that the limitation on naval craft between the great naval powers was too high.
Frank B. Kellogg

I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?
Jean Baudrillard

I hesitate to get into the gutter with this guy.
Chet Huntley

I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we're in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction.
David Eddings

If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies.
William Faulkner

If you ever need anything please don't hesitate to ask someone else first.
Kurt Cobain

It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.
Karl Von Clausewitz

It's all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
Bertolt Brecht

Leave undone whatever you hesitate to do.
Kenko Yoshida

People are afraid to ask musicians to be involved in projects because they anticipate being turned down. Young artists hesitate before contacting me. People in my position don't get approached often enough.
David Sylvian

Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.
Leo Rosten