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Letter "H" » hesitation
«Upon the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions, who when on the dawn of victory paused to rest, and there resting died.»
«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.»
«To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without, being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy in our age can do for those who study it»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Living,
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
hesitation, paralyzed
«Praise the virtues of fearlessness. A truly fearless person embraces even death without any kind of hesitation. »
«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.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
| Keywords:
bundles, dissent, dissenter, dissenters, hesitation, offends
«The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. Its one object is to produce and consume. It has pity neither for beautiful nature nor for living human beings. It is ruthlessly ready without a moment's hesitation to crush beauty and life»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
capaciousness, consume, crush, greed, hesitation, ruthlessly
«We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
avarice, diseases, fickle, folk, hesitation, puny
«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.»
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