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Irresolution on the schemes of life which offer themselves to our choice, and inconstancy in pursuing them, are the greatest causes of all our unhappiness. - Joseph Addison Not to resolve is to resolve; and many times it breeds as many necessities, and engageth as far in some other sort, as to resolve. - Francis Bacon Nothing of worth or weight can be achieved with half a mind, with a faint heart, and with a lame endeavor. - Isaac Barrow Irresolution is a worse vice than rashness. He that shoots best may sometimes miss the mark; but he that shoots not at all can never hit it. Irresolution loosens all the joints of a state; like an ague, it shakes not this nor that limb, but all the body is at once in a fit. The irresolute man is lifted from one place to another; so hatcheth nothing, but addles all his actions. - Owen Felltham (Feltham) Don't stand shivering upon the bank; plunge in at once and have it over. - Thomas Chandler Haliburton (used pseudonym Sam Slick) Irresolution and mutability are often the faults of men whose views are wide, and whose imagination is vigorous and excursive. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") We spend our days in deliberating, and we end them without coming to any resolve. - Sir Roger L'Estrange I am a heavy stone, Roll'd up a hill by a weak child: I move A little up, and tumble back again. - William Rider Like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect. - William Shakespeare In matters of great concern, and which must be done, there is no surer argument of a weak mind than irresolution; to be undetermined where the case is so plain, and the necessity so urgent. To be always intending to live a new life, but never to find time to set about it; this is as if a man should put off eating, and drinking, and sleeping, from one day and night to another, till he is starved and destroyed. - John Tillotson
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