Richard Gere Quotes

When you doubt, abstain.

I think when you have doubts, you just say no.

When in doubt, don't.

If one hesitates in his path, let him not proceed. Let him respect his doubts, for doubts, too, may have some divinity in them.

It is worse to be irresolute than to be wrong.

I was always the kid at school who thought it was a good idea to set off the fire alarm. And much as I'm aware that that's a trait which also propels other things which are good, I wish I could just pause and go, 'Is this really what you want to do?'

When we have 'second thoughts' about something, our first thoughts don't seem like thoughts at all - just feelings.

You know it's easy to say you shouldn't do something and then something happens and you say, 'Wow, I wish I would have done something.'

I don't want to make any huge decisions before I really know what I'm doing and am sure of myself.

I have reservations about everything I do.

Maybe I think too much.

I always thought it better to allow myself to doubt before I decided, than to expose myself to the misery, after I had decided, of doubting whether I had decided rightly and justly.

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

He who hesitates, meditates horizontally

And indeed there will be time To wonder, "Do I dare?" and, "Do I dare?" Time to turn back and descend the stair, With a bald spot in the middle of my hair.

I think everyone has questions in their mind. Did they do their very best?

I had no idea what I was doing, I had no idea where I was going, but at some point I stopped — when to keep going would seem like I was going too far.

I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.

We all find ourselves involved in projects or activities that confound us-when or why did I say I would do this? What was I thinking? I needed a poem for myself that said-pause longer. Think again.

And indeed there will be time to wonder, 'Do I dare?', and 'Do I dare?

I waited a second. Should I? No... but I will.

To think twice is quite enough.

I always question whether it's the right time for anything I do.

I think that there's some confusion in my own mind about what I believe.

I don't know if I would do this if I had to start over again.