Indecisiveness Quotes

“The man who refuses to judge, who neither agrees nor disagrees, who declares that there are no absolutes and believes that he escapes responsibility, is the man responsible for all the blood that is now spilled in the world. Reality is an absolute, existence is an absolute, a speck of dust is an absolute and so is a human life. Whether you live or die is an absolute. Whether you have a piece of bread or not, is an absolute. Whether you eat your bread or see it vanish into a looter's stomach, is an absolute.

There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil. The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice. But the man in the middle is the knave who blanks out the truth in order to pretend that no choice or values exist, who is willing to sit out the course of any battle, willing to cash in on the blood of the innocent or to crawl on his belly to the guilty, who dispenses justice by condemning both the robber and the robbed to jail, who solves conflicts by ordering the thinker and the fool to meet each other halfway. In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit. In that transfusion of blood which drains the good to feed the evil, the compromise is the transmitting rubber tube.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“Talking with a Martian is something like talking with an echo. You don't get any argument but you don't get results either.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

“I don’t know what afflicts me now. Indecisiveness? Reluctance? Fear of being vulnerable? I am not a coward, at least. Fear isn’t equivalent to cowardice. Even a soldier deployed at the border fears bullet, which is exactly why he is able to dodge the enemy and eliminate them.”
― Abhaidev, The World's Most Frustrated Man

“A person’s greatest limitations are not genetic, but imposed by self-doubt, insecurities, indecision, and timidity.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Indecision and fear can cripple any chances of succeeding and lead to maelstroms of regret that fuel our most fantastic nightmares.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“People can copy anything; your mode of dressing, the way you talk, walk, dance, sing, cry, but they will find it very hard to imitate the way you donate money.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Now is definitely the best time to start, though Yesterday would have beaten it easily.”
― Kalpesh Jain

“Indecisiveness is the number one reason for failure. Lack of ability to make a decision in a timely manner causes most people to fail with their projects and plans. Identify this challenge and decide to no longer let it be a setback from your success.”
― Farshad Asl, The "No Excuses" Mindset: A Life of Purpose, Passion, and Clarity

“Do not expect me then to answer for
A heart so little master of itself.
He may, sir, in this frenzied turmoil wed
The one he hates and spurn the one he loves.”
― Jean Racine, Andromaque

“A real value of our lives is in how we use our time as we journey from the womb to the tomb. A great difference between the womb and the tomb is the w and the t! Wasted time! We waste great and precious time as we journey from the womb to the tomb; in the end, we remember the w and the t in a simple statement of regret, 'had I known' ! The wasted time!”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“-Do you want me to leave?
-Yes
-Do you want me to stay?
-Yes
-Do you love me?
-Yes
-Do you want me?
-No
-Then leave me
-I can't
-Then stay with me
-I can't, I can't, I can't
*Equation of a fucked up relationship”
― Malak El Halabi

“Indecisive people are the most troublesome and frustrating type of persons.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“If you don't know which way to go in the middle of a bridge, you better enjoy the bridge! Sometimes the solution comes only when you give up the future and enjoy the present!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“It has always been the regular state of things. There is no clarity, no relief. At he end of all rationality, there is simply the need to decide and the faith to live through, to endure.”
― Ken Liu, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories

“If you have ever felt inadequate, paralyzed between options and unable to decide, you are not an indecisive person. You are a person who lacks decisive skill sets!”
― Emiljano Citaku, What If? Your Guide to Making the Best Decisions Ever

“Inaction is the biggest failure”
― Kalpesh Jain

“Luck is waiting for you around the corner, enough thinking, start walking towards it now.”
― Kalpesh Jain

“No aspiring king of kings here, just another prince of pause, or duke of doubt, shilly-shallying.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“Sure, spontaneity seems like a good trait, but I don't like it if it’s put into action repetitively. Sometimes things that may seem spontaneous are actually "the other person" only caring about their own schedule and not ours. The same thing goes with "indecisiveness," many say that they’re “open” to a relationship with the right person but not necessarily looking for one... Yes, some by their nature are smooth operators who know how to get what they want and get out; however, buttering me up doesn't lower my defenses.

If someone tries to get into my good graces quickly so they can look for signs that I am down for a cheap hookup, I will let them think whatever they want to (that's their free choice not mine). Meanwhile, I will be analyzing and possible learning new tricks that were not familiar to me... like scientists, who amuse themselves analyzing lab rats. I am not going to sugarcoat it... After a certain age, you simply lose interest and you settle for pretending in order to be entertained.”
― Efrat Cybulkiewicz

“Einstein said, “If I had an hour to solve a problem, I’d spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and five minutes thinking about the solutions.” I don’t think this is because Einstein was afraid of solutions or was just worrying in circles and beating himself up about the problem (as many of us do). I think Einstein understood the importance of getting clear about the problem he was really trying to solve. Think about how often we need to solve the problem of finishing a report for work, but instead we think we need chips. Or we need to solve the problem of getting rest, but instead we scroll through social media. We need respect and acknowledgement from our boss, yet instead of talking to our boss we go home and pick a fight with our spouse.”
― Sarah K. Ramsey, Problem Solved: Simple Habits For Complex Decisions

“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig-tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked . . . I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig-tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“Slavery and indecisiveness are characteristics of most Christians of the world”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Fear of failure is expressed in negative goal-setting, indecisiveness, and fear of adverse consequences”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Indecisiveness or the inability to act only invites disaster or undesirable results over the long run.”
― Steven Redhead, Life Is a Dance

“It had all seemed so simple after they broke the curse, when everything felt like a fairy tale. Back then, Belle would have said that their love would be enough to weather them through any storm, and she still believed it. But she hadn't anticipated that the storms would grow and multiply, or that she would find herself adrift, unsure of what side of the battle line she should stand upon.
A part of her feared that by marrying a prince and living in a castle, she would become someone she didn't recognize, someone like those ignorant courtiers who had access to the best books and educations money could buy but used them to make their worlds smaller.
And then another part of her feared that by resisting the change, she would move further and further away from Lio, and she didn't want that either.
Her heart belonged to Lio, but what about the rest of her?
Where would she be if she hadn't met him, and if the embers of revolution were stoked all the way to Aveyon? Would she be fighting alongside the men and women she had seen in the gardens of the Palais-Royal?”
― Emma Theriault, Rebel Rose

“Cat on the wall Christianity is something that the Bible never approves. Either it is black or white, no question of being grey

Righteous or wicked (Psalm 1)
Light or Darkness (I John 1 : 5, 6)
Narrow or Broadway (Matthew 7: 13, 14)
Belief or Unbelief (John 3: 18)
Pure or defiled (Titus 1: 15)
Obedient or disobedient (John 14: 23, 24)
Lord or Baal (I Kings 18: 21)
Wise or fool (Proverbs 1: 7)
Hot or Cold (Revelation 3: 16)
Eternal life or eternal punishment (Matthew 25: 46)

Today is the day of Salvation. Decide your path now!”
― Royal Raj S

“The goal of the poem is not to conceal uncertainty and to deliver an airtight argument, or proclamation, or insight, not to arrive at some truth, but rather to display the nature of the speaker's "real-time" sensibility, including its tendency toward indecisiveness and self-contradiction.”
― Tony Hoagland, The Art of Voice: Poetic Principles and Practice

“For us to solve our problems as quickly and painlessly as possible, we want to be completely clear about the real problem hidden underneath the roots. Asking “What is the real problem you are trying to solve?” sounds simple. Knowing the true problem you are trying to solve and then solving it, however, isn’t always easy. Experts in air navigation understand how important it is to stay perfectly on course. If a pilot steers a plane one degree off course, they will be 92 feet off course by the time they’ve traveled one mile. Pilots don’t get to miss the runway by 92 feet. The clearer you are about your own problem, the more likely you are to land in the right spot.”
― Sarah K. Ramsey, Problem Solved: Simple Habits For Complex Decisions

“Passion is the fuel that drives you forward, and it’s the contagious energy that inspires others. It’s a directional desire that might start as an interest and turn into growing curiosity. When full throttle, it refuses to be ignored. You won’t always have seasons where you’re doing what you love. Yes, there are seasons where you’re miserable at work, yet you don’t feel free to follow your passion. There are times when you feel as if you are in limbo, waiting for one path to end and the next one to begin, but that’s a great time to take inventory.”
― Emily Grabatin, Dare to Decide

“Sometimes the best decision is simply to make any decision.”
― Emily Grabatin, Dare to Decide