Indecision

(118 votes)   The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.

Martin Luther
1483-1546, German Leader of the Protestant Reformation

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(87 votes)   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.

Margaret Oliphant
1828-1897, British Novelist, Historian

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(84 votes)   Once he makes up his mind, he's full of indecision. [On Dwight D. Eisenhower]

Oscar Levant
1906-1972, American Pianist, Actor

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(81 votes)   In a minute there is time for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.

T. S. Eliot
1888-1965, American-born British Poet, Critic

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(81 votes)   Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.

Samuel Butler
1612-1680, British Poet, Satirist

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(79 votes)   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.

Jean Baudrillard
French Postmodern Philosopher, Writer

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(70 votes)   Don't stand shivering upon the bank; plunge in at once, and have it over.

Sam Slick

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(59 votes)   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.

H. A. Hopf

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(58 votes)   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.

Seneca
4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(57 votes)   I used to be indecisive; now I'm not sure.

Graffiti

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(56 votes)   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.

William James
1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author

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