William James Quotes

When you doubt, abstain.

A New Year's resolution that I can never keep? To be able to make decisions.

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

A weak point of mine was maybe little resolve in governing and making decisions.

I'm the worst at making decisions!

There's always a reason not to do anything... to flee the need to make decisions.

Decision-making is very scary for me.

I doubted myself for a long time.

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

I normally don't listen to my instincts because I'm so full of doubt.

He who hesitates, meditates horizontally

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

Doubt may be a poor encouragement to do anything, but it is a bad reason for doing nothing.

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

Indecision is the seedling of fear.

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

Withholding a decision is a decision.

I'm never, never sure which way to go. I'm full of unsureness. That's been a habit for years. I never really want to commit.

Indecisiveness wears a person out.

He who hesitates is poor.

Often, if there's something that I want to do, but somehow can't get myself to do, it's because I don't have clarity. This lack of clarity often arises from a feeling of ambivalence - I want to do something, but I don't want to do it; or I want one thing, but I also want something else that conflicts with it.

It is worse to be irresolute than to be wrong.

Fear paralyses you - fear of flying, fear of the future, fear of leaving a rubbish marriage, fear of public speaking, or whatever it is.

I think you're not a human being unless you have doubts and fears.

I question every move. I'm constantly second-guessing myself.