Top 45 Hesitation Quotes

Just as the humble, unassuming, assenting ‘O.K.’ has deposed the more affirmative ‘Yes,’ so the little cringe and hesitation and approximation of ‘like’ are a help to young people who are struggling to negotiate the shoals and rapids of ethnic identity, the street, and general correctness.

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.

Egypt, the Egypt of antiquity, at a later time, exercised a mysterious fascination over me. I recognized a picture of it immediately, without hesitation and astonishment, in an illustrated magazine.

I have no hesitation doing children’s movies. Zero. And I don’t even have kids.

On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.

If you don’t feel good in it, don’t wear it. Because it’ll never look good. Any hesitation in the fitting room and just walk away.

Action can cure fear and hesitation and doubt.

Once Liverpool had asked me to sign again, there was no hesitation.

There’s still a massive inequality between the genders. If you look at the trajectory of a male actor’s career, there’s no hesitation or hiatus. But women after the age of 35 to 40 are rarely placed in the centre of the story.

I had therefore, no hesitation in giving all the information I had, even though occasionally I tried to concentrate mainly on giving information about the results of my own work.

Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way of ambivalence, indecision, or safety.

Without doubt, without hesitation, I choose gardening over the gym. I can’t stand going to the gym. It doesn’t appeal to me at all. Give me gardening every time.

We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

In European countries and some Asian countries I’ve been to, there’s a lot less hesitation and skepticism when it comes to enjoying culture. People are encouraged to be fans and be passionate about what they like.

Just continue what you are doing. You should have no hesitation, no stopping – just keep on going to the next level.

Racing is a great mania to which one must sacrifice everything, without reticence, without hesitation.

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

When confronted with two alternatives, life and death, one is to choose death without hesitation.

There’s little windows that open up during the fight, to finish your opponent. Whenever those windows open, I’m jumping right through them without hesitation.

It is of no use to commit whole pages to memory, merely to recite them once without hesitation; you must think of the meaning more than the words – of the ideas more than the language.

If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.

Without question, no hesitation, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was the best player I ever played against.

When it comes to sitting down and composing, there is no hesitation, no concern, no critics breathing fire down my neck. For me, writing a song is the purest part of all. No one can mess with that.

My only hesitation after ‘Law & Order’ was that I didn’t want to be in a super dry procedural like that. I found that satisfying, but very tough because every episode was kind of the same. It just is with that show.

Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.

Once this old lady saw me in airport and just kept smiling at me, and after much hesitation, she came and asked me, ‘Are you Ram? Can I touch your hair? Is it real?’ and I happily obliged.

They’ve been fairly positive, as firm as they could be in regards to the derivatives operations in Montreal. We didn’t sense that there was a hesitation about it. But things change.

I have no hesitation in taking up more acting assignments if good roles come.

I can say without hesitation that there is certainly no greater show to be a contestant on than ‘Price’ – the prizes can be huge, and the whole world loves and watches the show. It’s an American institution!

I would feel no hesitation in saying that it is the responsibility of a decent human being to give assistance to a child who is being attacked by a rabid dog, but I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.

Lionel Messi, without hesitation! I’d love to play with him and Xavi.

All the evils of France have been produced less by the perversity of the wicked and the violence of fools than by the hesitation of the weak, the compromises of conscience, and the tardiness of patriotism. Let every deputy, every Frenchman show what he feels, what he thinks, and we are saved!

Some people say I do it too much, but I’m always asking the artist questions. Sometimes – especially with new artists – you can see they’re compromising in their mind. You see that look when they’re listening to a vocal take and there’s hesitation. And I’ll be like, ‘Are you sure you don’t want to do this again?’

The gospel sets us free to become the romantic leaders of our marriages without fright or hesitation. Because we have been forever wooed by Jesus, we are now free to forever woo our wives.

I always watch guys and take a lot of little stuff. I’ve taken a lot of hesitation stuff from Steph Curry. I think he’s the best at that.

I would, without any hesitation, shoot a violent criminal again.

My only ambition was to have a restaurant and bring real Italian food to this country. Television was never even part of my idea, so I can say without hesitation that I am living someone else’s dream.

If I had been prime minister, I would have offered apologies to the Dutch Jewish community without hesitation. This would refer both to our government’s attitude during the Second World War and to the very late postwar discovery that the restitution process had been poorly conceived.

If it is within limits and forms part of the storyline, I have no hesitation in doing glamour roles.

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don’t mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.

Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.

When you are a rapper, there’s always hesitation in taking on certain roles because of creditability, but Rza is one of those guys who doesn’t worry about what people will say. He’s a talented guy and can dive into anything.

I am convinced by my style of play, so I take risks without much hesitation.

We, as Canadians, have no hesitation lecturing the rest of the world on what they should be doing, how they shouldn’t discriminate, and how they should treat the poor. That same discrimination – unfairness that exists in so many of these countries – has been practised for years in our own country.

There is never hesitation about doing stand-up. It’s just me doing my thing.