lack of determination Quotes

The graveyard is the richest place on earth, because it is here that you will find all the hopes and dreams that were never fulfilled, the books that were never written, the songs that were never sung, the inventions that were never shared, the cures that were never discovered, all because someone was too afraid to take that first step, keep with the problem, or determined to carry our their dream.

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.

Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.

People who say, "I don't know what to do," usually aren't inspired enough to make it happen.

When you don't want something enough to make the effort, making an effort is a waste.

To shirk taking of vows betrays indecision and want of resolution.

Saying "I'll try" really means "I'm not really committed."

It is a perplexing and unpleasant truth that when men already have "something worth fighting for,they do not feel like fighting.

Irresolution on the schemes of life which offer themselves to our choice, and inconstancy in pursuing them, are the greatest causes of all our unhappiness.

The habit of taking the line of least resistance makes all rivers and some men crooked.

A person without conviction is a weak, jellyfish type of individual who mindlessly follows the crowd.

The sense of paralysis proceeds not so much out of the mammoth size of the problem but out of the puniness of the purpose.

A man without ambition is like a beautiful worm - it can creep, but it cannot fly.

Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers: the sleeping and the dead are but as pictures: ‘tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil

The native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought; and enterprises of great pitch and moment, With this regard, their currents turn awry, and lose the name of action.

The thing that cowardice fears most is decision

Initiative without action is the same as having the mind to acknowledge a problem, but not having the heart to see it through.

The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.

The primary reason for underachievement and failure is that the great majority of people don't decide to be successful.

The only reason men fail is because of broken focus

I was more wishy-washy in the first 12 years of my career, just because that was my personality.

Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.

Davis was weak and vascillating, timid, petulant, peevish, obstinate, but not firm.

Despair makes a despicable figure, and descends from a mean original. 'Tis the offspring of fear, of laziness and impatience; it argues a defect of spirit and resolution, and oftentimes of honesty, too. I would not despair unless I saw misfortune recorded in the book of fate, and signed and sealed by necessity.

It's weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them.