Quotes Tagged "hesitation"

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.

It was one of those cases where you approve the broad, general principle of an idea but can't help being in a bit of a twitter at the prospect of putting it into practical effect. I explained this to Jeeves, and he said much the same thing had bothered Hamlet.

Doubt is a creature within the air. It grows when someone hesitates.

If you can admit that you haven't yet understood everything, faith can fill the emptiness in heart to confront the hesitation.

The only walls that exist are those you have placed in your mind. And whatever obstacles you conceive, exist only because you have forgotten what you have already achieved.

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

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.

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