He who hesitates is lost…

By Nabil Medawar | Published: January 24, 2009
  • A cough assists a musician when he hesitates. ~ Latin Proverb
  • A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader. ~ Golda Meir
  • Act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done by hesitation. ~ Thomas H. Huxley
  • Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear. ~ Publilius Syrus
  • By hesitation the opportunity is often lost. ~Author Unknown
  • Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity. ~ William Hazlitt
  • Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness. ~ George Sand
  • Guilt is present in the very hesitation. ~ Cicero
  • He who hesitates is probably right. ~ Bogovich
  • He who hesitates is sometimes saved. ~ James Thurber
  • He who hesitates, regrets. ~ Albanian Proverb
  • Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age. ~ Ernest Hemingway
  • If the mass of people hesitate to act, strike with swiftly and with boldness, the brave heart that understands and seizes opportunity can everything. ~ Goethe
  • If you have great wealth, give alms out of your abundance; if you have but little, distribute even some of that. But do not hesitate to give alms. ~ Apocrypha
  • In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved. ~ Samuel Butler
  • Let the moment come when nothing is left but life, and you will find that you do not hesitate over the fate of material possessions. ~ Edward Vernon Rickenbacker
  • Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation. ~ Thomas Henry Huxley
  • Never hesitate to hold out your hand; never hesitate to accept the outstretched hand of another. ~ Pope John XXIII
  • Never hesitate to steal a good idea. ~ Al Neuharth
  • Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means. ~ Leo Buscaglia
  • Successful leaders have the courage to take action where others hesitate. ~ Author Unknown
  • The farmer hopes for rain, the walker hopes for sunshine, and the gods hesitate. ~ Chinese Proverb
  • Three things are good in small doses and bad in big ones: yeast, salt, and hesitation. ~ Hebrew Proverb
  • We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers. ~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca
  • When it comes to betting on yourself… you’re a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate. ~ B.C. Forbes
  • While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior. ~ Henry C Link
  • Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today. ~ Matthew Arnold
  • Whoever has a tail of straw should not hesitate near the fire. ~ Latin American Proverb

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