Don't stand shivering upon the bank; plunge in at once, and have it over.
He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship.
He who hesitates is sometimes saved.
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up.
I used to be indecisive; now I'm not sure.
In a minute there is time for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
Indecision is debilitating; it feeds upon itself; it is, one might almost say, habit-forming. Not only that, but it is contagious; it transmits itself to others.
It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.
Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardship of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die.
Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.
Once he makes up his mind, he's full of indecision. [On Dwight D. Eisenhower]
Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision.
Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement; and it is better to be driven out of your senses with thinking which of two things you ought to do than to do nothing whatever, and be utterly uninteresting to all the world.
The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.
The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for whom the lighting of every cigar, the drinking of every cup, the time of rising and going to bed every day, and the beginning of every bit of work, are subjects of express volitional deliberation.
To do nothing is also a good remedy.
We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.
You need an infinite stretch of time ahead of you to start to think, infinite energy to make the smallest decision. The world is getting denser. The immense number of useless projects is bewildering. Too many things have to be put in to balance up an uncertain scale. You can't disappear anymore. You die in a state of total indecision.