I am a heavy stone,
Rolled up a hill by a weak child: I move
A little up, and tumble back again. [ W. Rider ]

Like a man to double business bound,
I stand in pause where I shall first begin,
And both neglect. [ William Shakespeare ]

Don't stand shivering upon the bank; plunge in at once and have it over. [ Haliburton ]

We spend our days in deliberating, and we end them without coming to any resolve. [ L'Estrange ]

Nothing of worth or weight can be achieved with half a mind, with a faint heart, and with a lame endeavor. [ Barrow ]

In matters of great concern, and which must be done, there is no surer argument of a weak mind than irresolution. [ Tillotson ]

Irresolution and mutability are often the faults of men whose views are wide, and whose imagination is vigorous and excursive. [ Dr. Johnson ]

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. [ Bacon ]

Irresolution is a worse vice than rashness. He that shoots best, may sometimes miss the mark; but he that shoots not at all, will never hit it. [ Owen Feltham ]

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. [ Addison ]

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. [ Feltham ]

The repose necessary to all beauty is repose, not of inanition, nor of luxury, nor of irresolution, but the repose of magnificent energy and being; in action, the calmness of trust and determination; in rest, the consciousness of duty accomplished and of victory won; and this repose and this felicity can take place as well in the midst of trial and tempest, as beside the waters of comfort. [ Ruskin ]