George MacDonald Quotes

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true.

I don't reject caution, but you also have to be careful about caution because there's a stage when it turns into paralysis.

Doubt can only be removed by action.

He who hesitates, meditates horizontally

Indecision is the seedling of fear.

You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that.

If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.

I don't know. I just feel stuck, like I'm afraid to take any steps, in case they're the wrong ones.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Leave undone whatever you hesitate to do.

You aren't sure if you're making the right decision - about anything, ever.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.

I'm the worst at making decisions!

A lot of times, I'll be shooting and think, 'Maybe I should pass.'

There wasn't a time where I felt fearful that I couldn't make the best decisions possible.

Fear has made them sloppy. The world teeters at a precipe. All scared to take a step in case they put a foot into empty air. The instinct of self-preservation. It can destroy a man's efficiency.

There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.

Irresolution is a worse vice than rashness. He that shoots best may sometimes miss the mark; but he that shoots not at all can never hit it. Irresolution loosens all the joints of a state; like an ague, it shakes not this nor that limb, but all the body is at once in a fit. The irresolute man is lifted from one place to another; so hatcheth nothing, but addles all his actions.

Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.

Idleness and timidity often despair without being overcome, and forbear attempts for fear of being defeated; and we may promote the invigoration of faint endeavors, by showing what has already been performed.

of all the follies that we can commit, the greatest is to hesitate.

Doubt means don't. Don't move. Don't answer. Don't rush forward.

He who hesitates is poor.