Top 40 Hesitation Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.”

— Suzy Kassem

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Courage Quotes, Confidence Quotes, Failure Quotes, Action Quotes

2. “The first step to getting anywhere is deciding you’re no longer willing to stay where you are.”

— Anonymous

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Change Quotes, New Beginnings Quotes, Self-Empowerment Quotes

3. “A year from now you may wish you had started today.”

— Karen Lamb

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Startup Quotes, Goal Quotes, Hard Work Quotes, Procrastination Quotes

4. “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”

— Wayne Gretzky

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Positive Quotes, Goal Quotes, Confidence Quotes

5. “Do not wait. The time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.”

— Napoleon Hill

Also featured in: Startup Quotes, Success Quotes, Goal Quotes, Hard Work Quotes

6. “If somebody offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes – then learn how to do it later!”

— Richard Branson

Also featured in: Startup Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Action Quotes, Opportunity Quotes

7. “You may delay, but time will not.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Also featured in: Time Quotes, Impact Quotes, Wisdom Quotes, Life Philosophy Quotes

8. “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.”

— Chinese proverb

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Goal Quotes, Action Quotes, Environment Quotes

9. “Never leave till tomorrow that which you can do today.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Also featured in: Persistence Quotes, Business Quotes, Goal Quotes, Life Lessons Quotes

10. “Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Courage Quotes, Opportunity Quotes, Empowerment Quotes

11. “Do it. Do it right. Do it right now.”

— Spencer W. Kimball

Also featured in: Persistence Quotes, Excellence Quotes, Commitment Quotes, Productivity Quotes, Procrastination Quotes

12. “To be or not to be that is the question.”

— William Shakespeare

Also featured in: Fiction Quotes, Philosophy Quotes, Powerful Quotes, Meaning of Life Quotes

13. “To any entrepreneur: if you want to do it, do it now. If you don’t, you’re going to regret it.”

— Catherine Cook

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Impact Quotes, Opportunity Quotes, Ambition Quotes, Risk-Taking Quotes

14. “Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.”

— William Shakespeare

Also featured in: Courage Quotes, Opportunity Quotes, Life Philosophy Quotes, Quotes About Trying

15. “Do it now. Sometimes ‘Later’ becomes ‘Never’”

— Anonymous

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Persistence Quotes, Time Quotes, Change Quotes

16. “Screw it, let’s do it – Just get on with it and do it.”

— Richard Branson

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Persistence Quotes, Passion Quotes, Risk-Taking Quotes

17. “Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.”

— George S. Patton Jr.

Also featured in: Courage Quotes, Military Quotes, Determination Quotes, Fear Quotes

18. “Indecision is the greatest thief of opportunity.”

— Jim Rohn

Also featured in: Opportunity Quotes, Taking Action Quotes, Choices Quotes, Smart Quotes

19. “We miss 100 percent of the sales we don’t ask for.”

— Zig Ziglar

Also featured in: Strategy Quotes, Prosperity Quotes, Career Development Quotes, Making Money Quotes

20. “While we are postponing, life speeds by.”

— Seneca the Younger

Also featured in: Time Quotes, Taking Action Quotes, Philosophy Quotes

21. “Take action now, because tomorrow never comes.”

— Marshall Sylver

Also featured in: Time Quotes, Mindset Quotes, Commitment Quotes, Risk-Taking Quotes, Momentum Quotes

22. “The reason you’ll never be successful is that you procrastinate.”

— Eric Thomas

Also featured in: Time Quotes, Coaching Quotes, Career Development Quotes, Progress Quotes

23. “The best way to do it, is to do it!”

— Amelia Earhart

Also featured in: Personality Quotes, Commitment Quotes, Practice Quotes, Risk-Taking Quotes, Adventure Quotes

24. “Action cures fear. Indecision, postponement, on the other hand, fuel fear.”

— David J. Schwartz

Also featured in: Risk-Taking Quotes, Moving Forward Quotes, Fear Quotes, Quotes About Acting

25. “The worst of all human ailments: indecision.”

— Napoleon Hill

Also featured in: Quotes for Better Decisions

26. “It’s a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you’re ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any.”

— Hugh Laurie

Also featured in: Time Quotes, Carpe Diem Quotes, Risk-Taking Quotes, Moving Forward Quotes

27. “Don’t waver. Make a decision. Do it now.”

— Billy Graham

Also featured in: Choices Quotes, Quotes for Better Decisions

28. “When you face a problem, solve it then and there if you have the facts necessary to make a decision. Don’t keep putting off decisions.”

— Dale Carnegie

Also featured in: Common Sense Quotes, Quotes for Better Decisions, Procrastination Quotes, Quotes About Acting

29. “Excitement must lead to immediate action or you will lose the power of momentum. More dreams die because we fail to seize the moment. Do it now!”

— Tony Robbins

Also featured in: Time Quotes, Transformation Quotes, Coaching Quotes, Carpe Diem Quotes

30. “Don’t think about it. Do it. Don’t talk about it. Do it.”

— Henry Rollins

Also featured in: Dedication Quotes, Practice Quotes, Risk-Taking Quotes, Momentum Quotes, Exercise Quotes

31. “Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.”

— Alan Cohen

Also featured in: Career Development Quotes, Preparation Quotes, Procrastination Quotes, Momentum Quotes, Quotes About Acting

32. “The man of decision cannot be stopped! The man of indecision cannot be started! Take your own choice.”

— Napoleon Hill

Also featured in: Prosperity Quotes, Intention Quotes, Choices Quotes, Quotes for Better Decisions

33. “Don’t worry about getting it right. Just get it started.”

— Marie Forleo

Also featured in: Cheer Quotes, New Beginnings Quotes, Goal Setting Quotes, Practice Quotes, Momentum Quotes

34. “Procrastinate now, don’t put it off.”

— Ellen DeGeneres

Also featured in: Sarcastic Quotes, Crazy Quotes, Procrastination Quotes

35. “Say it before you run out of time. Say it before it’s too late. Say what you’re feeling. Waiting is a mistake.”

— Haruki Murakami

Also featured in: Carpe Diem Quotes, Love You Quotes, Quotes About Heart, Longing Quotes

36. “Start before you’re ready. Good things happen when we start before we’re ready.”

— Steven Pressfield

Also featured in: New Beginnings Quotes, Resistance Quotes, Momentum Quotes

37. “Don’t prepare. Begin. Our enemy is not lack of preparation. The enemy is resistance, our chattering brain producing excuses. Start before you are ready.”

— Steven Pressfield

Also featured in: Willpower Quotes, Obstacles Quotes, Resistance Quotes, Procrastination Quotes, Momentum Quotes

38. “Soon is not as good as now.”

— Seth Godin

Also featured in: Carpe Diem Quotes, Procrastination Quotes, Quotes About Acting

39. “I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.”

— Og Mandino

Also featured in: Prosperity Quotes, Victory Quotes, Procrastination Quotes, Momentum Quotes

40. “Screw it. Let's do it.”

— Richard Branson

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Leadership Quotes, Action Quotes