These hesitate quotes will inspire you. Hesitate, to hold back in doubt or indecision or pause before saying or doing something, especially through uncertainty.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging hesitate quotes, hesitate sayings, and hesitate proverbs.
Best Hesitate Quotes
- “Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true.” ~ Patrick Swayze
- “Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.” ~ Thomas Huxley
- “Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.” ~ Ernest Hemingway
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“What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.” ~ Tim Ferriss
- “Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “Take one more deep breath, savor it, and plunge forward without thinking. Do not allow yourself hesitation. Do not allow yourself a moment of doubt. Follow your instincts and go where you never would have considered possible.” ~ Corey Taylor , Do not hesitate quotes
- “Even if you have to go through hell – go without hesitation.” ~ Albert Einstein
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“Hesitation only enlarges, magnifies the fear. Take action promptly. Be decisive.” ~ David J. Schwartz
- “If you lack initiative, recognize that the problem comes from the inside, not from others. Determine why you hesitate to take action. Does risk scare you? Are you discouraged by past failures? Do you not see the potential that opportunity offers? Find the source of your hesitation, and address it. You won’t be able to move forward on the outside until you can move forward on the inside.” ~ John C. Maxwell
- “On an important decision one rarely has 100% of the information needed for a good decision no matter how much one spends or how long one waits. And, if one waits too long, he has a different problem and has to start all over. This is the terrible dilemma of the hesitant decision maker.” ~ Robert K. Greenleaf
- “Live for each second without hesitation” ~ Elton John
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“Enthusiasm is a volcano on whose top never grows the grass of hesitation.” ~ Khalil Gibran
- “No Fear, No Hesitation, No Surprise, No Doubt” ~ Miyamoto Musashi
- “Move forward with no second-guessing, no guilt trips, no hesitation. Your purpose is to recreate yourself anew in each moment.” ~ Neale Donald Walsch
- “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
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“When the heart is flooded with love there is no room in it for fear, for doubt, for hesitation.” ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- “Good friends are those who care without hesitation, who remember without limitation and who love even without communication” ~ Philippos Syrigos
- “If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.” ~ Blaise Pascal
- “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
- “My procrastination which has held me back was born of fear … now I know that to conquer fear I must always act without hesitation and the flutters in my heart will vanish. Now I know that action reduces the lion of terror…. I will walk where the failure fears to walk.” ~ Og Mandino
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“Be like a train; go in the rain, go in the sun, go in the storm, go in the dark tunnels! Be like a train; concentrate on your road and go with no hesitation!” ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
- “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
- “I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.” ~ John Ruskin
- “It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at pictures; one must, without doubt, without hesitations, with assurance, admire what is beautiful.” ~ Vincent Van Gogh
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“I prefer my hesitations, my false paths, my stammering, to a preconceived idea.” ~ Robert Doisneau
- “I hate Erma,” I told Mom… “You have to show compassion for her…” She added that you should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. “Everyone has something good about them,” she said. “You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.” “Oh yeah?” I said. “How about Hitler? What was his redeeming quality?” “Hitler loved dogs,” Mom said without hesitation.” ~ Jeannette Walls , Hesitate quotes love
- “Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.” ~ William Hazlitt
- “Just handle what is in front of you now and the future will take care of itself. Otherwise, you’ll spend most of your life wondering which foot you’ll use to step off the curb when you’re still only halfway to the corner.” ~ Dan Millman
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“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.” ~ Seneca the Younger
- “Get rid of all the hesitation, it’s time for you to seize the day.” ~ Greyson Chance
- “Often, people who can do, don’t because they’re afraid of what people that can’t do will say about them doing.” ~ Trevor Noah
- “When you are five, you know your age down to the month. Even in your twenties, you know how old you are. I’m twenty-three you say, or maybe twenty-seven. But then in your thirties, something strange starts to happen. It is a mere hiccup at first, an instant of hesitation. How old are you? Oh, I’m–you start confidently, but then you stop. You were going to say thirty-three, but you are not. You’re thirty-five. And then you’re bothered, because you wonder if this is the beginning of the end. It is, of course, but it’s decades before you admit it.” ~ Sara Gruen
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“Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.” ~ Publilius Syrus
- “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
- “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
- “I use my single windup, my double windup, my triple windup, my hesitation windup, my no windup. I also use my step-n-pitch-it, my submariner, my sidearmer and my bat dodger. Man’s got to do what he’s got to do.” ~ Satchel Paige
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“Come to God for your healing. Don’t hesitate. God, who is so full of goodness and supply, is always willing to bless, preserve, heal and restore you.” ~ Joseph Prince
- “I never could do anything with figures, never had any talent for mathematics, never accomplished anything in my efforts at that rugged study, and today the only mathematics I know is multiplication, and the minute I get away up in that, as soon as I reach nine times seven- [He lapsed into deep thought, trying to figure nine times seven. Mr. McKelway whispered the answer to him.] I’ve got it now. It’s eighty-four. Well, I can get that far all right with a little hesitation. After that I am uncertain, and I can’t manage a statistic.” ~ Mark Twain , Never hesitate quotes
- “I don’t remember you being this reasonable before, ” Lissa said. “It’s because everyone has different definitions of ‘reasonable. ‘ Mine’s just misunderstood, that’s all. ” Christian’s voice was lofty. “I think you must be misunderstood a lot, ” she laughed. His eyes held hers, and the smile on his face transformed into something warmer and softer. “Well, I hope this isn’t misunderstood. Otherwise, I might get punched. ” Leaning over, he brought his lips to hers. Lissa responded with no hesitation or thought whatsoever, losing herself in the sweetness of the kiss.” ~ Richelle Mead
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“We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Nearly all our powerful men in this age of the world are unbelievers; the best of them in doubt and misery; the worst in reckless defiance; the plurality, in plodding hesitation, doing, as well as they can, what practical work lies ready to their hands.” ~ John Ruskin
- “”What would you call the highest happiness, Lewie?” he asked. “The sense of competence,” was the answer, given without hesitation.” ~ John Buchan
- “I would, without any hesitation, shoot a violent criminal again.” ~ Bernhard Goetz
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“Mindless violence, well let me try to paint it.
Here’s the 5 steps in hopes to explain it:
- 1, It’s me and my Nation against the World
2, Then me and my Clan against the Nation
3, Then me and my Fam against the Clan
4, Then me and my Brother, we no hesitation
Go against the Fam until they cave in
5, Now who’s left in this deadly equation? - That’s right, it’s me against my Brother
Then we point a Kalashnikov
And kill one another.” ~ K’naan - “No matter what you are dealing with in life, be it resentment or regret, bitterness or sadness, anger or apathy, hatred or hesitation, depression or disempowerment, disappointment or other destructive anxieties, painful envy or emotional turmoil, fear of isolation or thoughts of failure, keep in mind that if you are positive, positivity will find you and embrace you!” ~ Widad Akrawi
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“When a child of the streets stands before you in rags, with a tear-stained face, you cannot easily forget him. And yet, you are perplexed what to do. The human soul is difficult to interfere with. You hesitate how far you should go.” ~ Charles Loring Brace
- “When men no longer fear God, they transgress His laws without hesitation. The fear of consequences is no deterrent when the fear of God is gone.” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
- “There is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.” ~ Seneca the Younger
- “The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. Its one object is to produce and consume. It has pity neither for beautiful nature nor for living human beings. It is ruthlessly ready without a moment’s hesitation to crush beauty and life.” ~ Rabindranath Tagore
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“The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.” ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- “You must earn what you have. Life does not give you anything. You must give in order to get. You must stand up to the very thing that challenges you, look it in the face, get clear about your intention, order your thoughts and your life, and proceed without fear or hesitation. Life is not unfair. Along the way, you will always find bits of information and support to guide you to purpose.” ~ Iyanla Vanzant
- “We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies.” ~ David Foster Wallace
- “There is a destination but no way there; what we refer to as way is hesitation.” ~ Franz Kafka
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“I don’t have any hesitation saying I’ve traveled more miles than any human being who ever lived. I’ve been doing it for 60 years.” ~ Gary Player
- “We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more than the search for truth.” ~ Blaise Pascal
- “There is a line between a definite maybe and an indefinite yes.” ~ Mason Cooley
- “Don’t expect ambiguities, hesitations or palace intrigues from me.” ~ Anibal Cavaco Silva
- “On the one hand, then, in the reproductive functions proper-menstruation, defloration, pregnancy and parturition-woman is biologically doomed to suffer. Nature seems to have no hesitation in administering to her strong doses of pain, and she can do nothing but submit passively to the regimen prescribed. On the other hand, as regards sexual attraction, which is necessary for the act of impregnation, and as regards the erotic pleasures experienced during the act itself, the woman may be on an equal footing with the man.” ~ Princess Marie Bonaparte
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“I have no hesitation doing children’s movies. Zero. And I don’t even have kids.” ~ David Cross
- “Hesitation will get you killed.” ~ Laurell K. Hamilton
- “An expectation was there, mixed in with so many other emotions – excitement, resignation, hesitation, confusion, fear – that would well up then wither on the vine. You’re optimistic one moment, only to be racked the next by the certainty that it will all fall to pieces. And in the end it does.” ~ Haruki Murakami
- “Haste is productive of injury, and so is too much hesitation. He is the wisest man who does everything at the proper time.” ~ Ovid
- “Start working on whatever you hesitate Because there is an ending to every beginning. When you make it to the end, You will realize the hesitation was a waste of time.” ~ David Wong
