Resolution-Irresolution

Nothing that is not a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconstancy. (Joseph Addison)

No man is good for anything who has not some particle of obstinacy to use upon occasion. (Henry Ward Beecher)

Often we are firm from weakness, and audacious from timidity. (La Rochefoucauld)

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. (William James)

Intellect, without firmness, is craft and chicanery; and firmness, without intellect, perverseness and obstinacy. (Sa'di)