Quotes about Indecision

Indecision, doubt and fear. The members of this unholy trio are closely related; where one is found, the other two are close at hand.

When we fail to take action, we forfeit the future. And just as inaction is an action, indecision is a decision. As Edmund Burke famously said, "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

That fear of missing out on things makes you miss out on everything.

5. Procrastination

The princes of Issachar were with Deborah, and Issachar was with Barak, rushing into the valley at his heels. In the clans of Reuben there was great indecision.

Why did you sit among the sheepfolds to hear the whistling for the flocks? In the clans of Reuben there was great indecision.

I'm afraid of committing myself," she thought to herself. She wanted to follow all possible paths and so ended up following none.

The Government simply cannot make up their mind or they cannot get the prime minister to make up his mind. So they go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all powerful for impotency. And so we go on preparing more months more years precious perhaps vital for the greatness of Britain for the locusts to eat. - Speaking in the Address in Reply debate, after giving some specific instances of Germany's war preparedness

But not making a decision is actually a decision. It's the decision to stay the same.

It passed through his mind that if he missed this chance of talking to Katharine, he would have to face an enraged ghost, when he was alone in his room again, demanding an explanation of his cowardly indecision. It was better, on the whole, to risk present discomfiture than to waste an evening bandying excuses and constructing impossible scenes with this uncompromising section of himself.

Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old.

Even if you knew what to do you wouldnt know what to do. You wouldnt know if you wanted to do it or not.