Indecision is like a stepchild: if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water.
African Proverb
The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision.
William Arthur Ward
It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.
Marianne Moore
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
Anytime there is a struggle between doing what is actually right and doing what seems right, then your ego is interfering with your decision.
Darren L. Johnson
Failures of perspective in decision-making can be due to aspects of the social utility paradox, but more often result from simple mistakes caused by inadequate thought.
Herman Kahn
Our doubts are traitors And make us lose the good we oft might win By fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare
To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.
Bertrand Russell
We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.
Blaise Pascal
Things can harden meaningfully in the moment of indecision.
John Ashbery
The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.
Martin Luther
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Elbert Hubbard