Quotes with hesitation

  • 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.

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  • Publilius Syrus Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Blaise Pascal Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • William Hazlitt Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Ernest Hemingway Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • John Ruskin 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.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II 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.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Callie Khouri People always ask me about 'Girls' with this kind of hesitation. What do I think of it? I love it. It's awesome. I get a lot of Where do you come down on this? I come down on the side of 'Yay, Lena Dunham. Congratulations. I'm jealous.' She's doing something so fantastic. Maybe it's not for everybody, but it certainly is for me.
    Callie Khouri
    American film and television (1957 - )
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  • John Ruskin 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.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz The role of determination is to limit the agonies of doubt and the perils of hesitation when the motives for action are inadequate.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Eric Hoffer Though dissenters seem to question everything in sight, they are actually bundles of dusty answers and never conceived a new question. What offends us most in the literature of dissent is the lack of hesitation and wonder.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Seneca 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.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • John Buchan What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.
    John Buchan
    Scottish novelist, historian, and Unionist (1875 - 1940)
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  • Bill Walton Without question, no hesitation, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was the best player I ever played against.
    Bill Walton
    American basketball player (1952 - )
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  • Blaise Pascal If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then without hesitation, that He exists.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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