William James Quotes

Indecisiveness wears a person out.

He who hesitates is poor.

It is worse to be irresolute than to be wrong.

I have hesitation making any kind of decision, really in my life. I'm really slow at it.

The woman that deliberates is lost.

When men think much, they can rarely decide.

Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.

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

To delay action until there Is one hundred percent certainty Is always to postpone political action forever.

I'm the worst at making decisions!

Hesitation is often like procrastination. One may have vague doubts and feel a need to mull things over; meanwhile, other issues intrude on thought, and no decision is taken. Ask people why they procrastinate, and you probably won't get a crisp answer.

I can be indecisive about things - and the less important something is, the more indecisive I am.

That's the one thing I don't like hearing, when someone says, 'We'll see what happens, see what happens here, see what happens there.' Forget all of that.

When "Why not do it?" barely outweighs "Why do it?" — don't do it.

If you don't know what to do, don't do anything.

Indecision is the greatest thief of opportunity.

Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea.

I'll be like Scarlett O'Hara-I'll think about it tomorrow.

Everybody has noticed the way cats stop and loiter in a half-open door. Hasn't everyone said to a cat: For heavens sake why don't you come in? With opportunity half-open in front of them, there are men who have a similar tendency to remain undecided between two solutions, at the risk of being crushed by fate abruptly closing the opportunity. The overprudent, cats as they are, and because they are cats, sometimes run more danger than the bold

At that moment I had no mind to change, or not change, or throw against the nearest wall.

I somehow got this reputation of diddling and dithering. I don't remember dithering at all.

Simple it's not, I'm afraid you will find, for a mind maker-upper to make up his mind

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.

Well, if you're waitin' for a woman to make up her mind, you may have a a long wait.