Hesitation Quotes

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
Blaise Pascal

Faith, Truth, Wise

We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Following, Fickle, Folk

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.
John Ruskin

Great, Mean, Doubt

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
Ernest Hemingway

Age, Risk, Equal

On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Lie, Down, Victory

If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.
Blaise Pascal

Nothing, Lose, Exists

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Give, Grace, Benefit

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.
George Sand

Yourself, Kindness, Give

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.
Bertrand Russell

Age, Live, Philosophy

Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.
Thomas Huxley

Good, Mind, Done

Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.
Thomas Aquinas

Others, Common, Share

Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.
John Ruskin

Work, Age, Best

Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.
William Hazlitt

Pain, Everything, Grace

I have hesitation making any kind of decision, really in my life. I'm really slow at it.
Jeff Bridges

Life, Decision, Making

Hesitation before birth. If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.
Franz Kafka

Life, Before, Birth

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.
Publilius Syrus

Courage, Fear, Audacity

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

Waiting, Decision, Down

If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.
Franz Kafka

Life, Before, Birth

There is never hesitation about doing stand-up. It's just me doing my thing.
Hal Sparks

McDonalds used to be my favorite place to eat, until my metabolism changed in my late 30s. Before that, I would have no hesitation about walking into McDonalds and getting two cheeseburgers and fries and enjoying every last bite.
Andy Cohen

Two, Before, Place

Well, I love fishing. I wouldn't kill a fly myself but I've no hesitation in killing a fish. A lot of men are like that. No bother. Out you come. Thump. And that's not the only reason.
Norman MacCaig

Love, Men, Reason

I would, without any hesitation, shoot a violent criminal again.
Bernhard Goetz

Again, Violent, Criminal

There is never hesitation about doing stand-up. It's just me doing my thing. Unlike being in a band or a play or something, I don't have to rely on anyone else but me.
Hal Sparks

Play, Else, Anyone

I want to write poems which are very emotional, but I would have some hesitation in saying I want to write poems which are sentimental.
Andrew Motion

Emotional, Saying, Write

Gotham Games called me, and I could not be more thrilled. I've been waiting to be in a video game forever, so when they called there was no hesitation.
Cindy Margolis

Waiting, Game, Games

We know that if al Queda or one of these terrorist organizations were to get a weapon of mass destruction from Iraq, that they would have no hesitation about using it to catastrophic consequences; the potential is for hundreds of thousands of casualties.
Paul Cellucci

Potential, Iraq, Using

Working with Jim Carrey is an absolute gas. I have never laughed so hard for so long. Had he been on-board for the sequel of Dumb & Dumber, I would've jumped on, with no hesitation.
Jeff Daniels

Long, Hard, Working

Once Liverpool had asked me to sign again, there was no hesitation.
Jamie Redknapp

Again, Once, Asked

If you don't feel good in it, don't wear it. Because it'll never look good. Any hesitation in the fitting room and just walk away.
L'Wren Scott

Good, Away, Walk

Slowly, but with no doubt or hesitation whatever, and in something of a solemn expectancy, the two animals passed through the broken tumultuous water and moored their boat at the flowery margin of the island.
Kenneth Grahame

Doubt, Through, Two

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