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Definition of Hesitation
Hesitation
The act of hesitating; suspension of opinion or action; doubt; vacillation.

A faltering in speech; stammering.

Related Definitions:
Act, Action, Doubt, Faltering, Hesitating, In, Of, Opinion, Or, Speech, Stammering, Suspension, The, Vacillation






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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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



Hesitation Translations
hesitation in Dutch is geweifel, aarzeling, hapering
hesitation in Italian is ritardo, interruzione
hesitation in Latin is dubium


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