Doubt Quotes

The most self-damaging words in the English language are: try, might, and if. These are words of uncertainty. Will you fail? That is possible. But continue doubting your abilities and you’ll never succeed.

~ Dannika Dark

Self-doubt inflicts the deepest wounds.

~ Marty Rubin

To faith doubt is a sin, to science a virtue, to love a cancer and to life, suicide

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

The prisoner of doubt ends his stint [through suicide], released to the custody of that final question mark which punctuates every life sentence.

~ Dan Garfat-Pratt

Every declaration we make is like a seed planted,whose harvest we can't possibly foretell.

~ Auliq Ice

He had read lots of stories where heroes succeeded in spite of long odds, where they accomplished a task that everyone else had failed at. He wondered for the first time about all the people who'd gone before those heroes, about whether they'd been at each other's throats, before everything had gone wrong. He wondered if there was a point where they realized they weren't going to make it, weren't going to beat those long odds--that in the legend that would follow, they were going to be the nameless people that failed.

~ Holly Black

People shouldn't question their desires. They should do what they want.

~ Marty Rubin

Love is the castle, doubt is the moat, desire is the paddle and hope is the boat.

~ Kellie Elmore

God,is there no faith left?He has not told. I would not know Him if I saw Him.

~ Beth Morey

A person’s greatest limitations are not genetic, but imposed by self-doubt, insecurities, indecision, and timidity.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Do you want a good advice on your path? Here it is: Don’t be sure of your path! Don’t ever be sure of it! Do you want more advice? Here it is: Doubt your path! And examine the other paths, know the other paths!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If someone thinks you can help or heal them, and you think you can’t, choose their faith over your doubt.

~ Alan Cohen

Healing comes by faith. Faith is destroyed by doubt. If you doubt whether God wants people to be healed, you won’t see them healed.

~ Praying Medic

Suddenly, a high-pitched sound blasted into the room. The floor began shaking beneath her feet. She paused for a moment, wondering if she was causing this.

~ Anne-Rae Vasquez

Doubt grew only in the fertile darkness of solitude

~ Michael R. Fletcher

One has to abandon altogether the search for security, and reach out to the risk of living with both arms. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing.

~ Morris West

It is true. Indeed, that is why I dared not speak. I have yearned to be again at the side of my beloved Arianllyn, and my thoughts are with her now. But had I chosen to return, I would ever wonder whether my choice was made through wisdom or following the wishes of my own heart. I see this is as it must be, and the destiny laid upon me. I am content to die here.

~ Lloyd Alexander

The devil is not the prince of matter; the devil is the arrogance of spirit, faith without smile, truth that is never seized by doubt. The devil is grim because he knows where he is going, and, in moving, he always returns from whence he came.

~ Umberto Eco

The evil in the world must not make me doubt the existence of God. There could be no evil if there were no God. Before there can be a hole in a uniform, there must be a uniform; before there is death, there must be life; before there is error, there must be truth; before there is a crime, there must be liberty and law; before there is a war, there must be peace; before there is a devil, there must be a God, rebellion against whom made the devil.

~ Fulton J. Sheen

It can be a good thing if deeper theology, or philosophy, only makes one more uncertain. It may lead to a healthy doubt; he may throw his hands up saying, 'God, I just don't know anymore. If you're out there, I'm giving it all to you.' From there, after the surrender, he is allowing God himself, rather than theories, books, and documents, to take over and lead him into all truth.

~ Criss Jami

Taking the one seat describes two related aspects of spiritual work. Outwardly, it means selecting one practice and teacher among all the possibilities, and inwardly, it means having the determination to stick with that practice through whatever difficulties and doubts arise until you have come to true clarity and understanding.

~ Jack Kornfield

It’s not about being ready or feeling prepared all the time, sometimes you just have to do what you know you have to do. And when you do – you will always see that you’re more ready and more prepared than you realize. Never doubt yourself or you may never do anything of significance.

~ A.j. Darkholme

Doubt quit stopping by when I started staying out late, dancing in a flood of self assurance discovered when holding your hand.

~ Taylor Patton

what is poetry if not seeing and feeling, and feeling, feelings running deepand okay – do I see, notice the gray pigeon feathers that heave by on drafts of passing cars reeking, leaking gasoline fumesand okay – do I feel?

~ Beth Morey

I am at the gates of my own destruction.(Or so I'm told.)

~ Beth Morey

she prays to feel as powerful as she might if God sang silentwords into her ear and answeredall the rattling questions , now

~ Beth Morey

I will be merciful, and I will believe in people. If I am to err, I will err on the side of mercy. I will give people the benefit of the doubt. I will bend, but not break, in order to give people the opportunity to grow and develop.

~ David K. Bernard

When leaders lack self-awareness, they doubt themselves; uncertain about their abilities; unclear about the direction to take on each turn, and more...

~ Assegid Habtewold

We are trapped in a net of our our own self-doubt, on the programming force fed to us by parents, schools, society. In a certain light, on certain days, you can see that net. And once you can see it, you can learn to make it go away.

~ Chloe Thurlow

Conviction is having the mindset to never doubt your self-understanding

~ Gino Norris

I swallowed all the doubt and all the disappointment and all the anger and they were almost too big, like vitamin pills that are difficult to get down even with water.

~ Annabel Pitcher

When the dark clouds of doubt, anger or worry begin to move upon you, steady yourself in the knowledge that in time, the storm will pass.

~ Bryant Mcgill

God is always trying to give blessings to us, but our minds are usually too full to receive them.

~ Shannon L. Alder

He wished he could relieve himself of his doubts and guilts half as easily.

~ George R.r. Martin

Some people with DID present their narratives of sadistic abuse in a quite matter-of-fact way, without perceptible affect. This may sometimes be done as a way of protecting themselves, and the listener, from the emotional impact of their experience. We have found that people describing trauma in a flat way, without feeling, are usually those who have been more chronically abused, while those with affect still have a sense of self that can observe the tragedy of betrayal and have feelings about it. In some cases, this deadpan presentation can also be the result of cult training and brainwashing. Unfortunately, when a patient describes a traumatic experience without showing any apparent emotion, it can make the listener doubt whether the patient is telling the truth. (page 119, Chapter 9, Some clinical implications of believing or not believing the patient)

~ Graeme Galton

There are two ways to slide easily through life: Namely, to believe everything, or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking. The majority take the line of least resistance, preferring to have their thinking done for them; they accept ready-made individual, private doctrines as their own and follow them more or less blindly. Every generation looks upon its own creeds as true and permanent and has a mingled smile of pity and contempt for the prejudices of the past. For two hundred or more generations of our historical past this attitude has been repeated two hundred or more times, and unless we are very careful our children will have the same attitude toward us.

~ Alfred Korzybski

when you are doubt with someone on how they feel don't pretend that you know what they were thinking, never assume yourself as you know how they feel when you really not at their shoes at all.

~ Jinnul Jr.

I was still searching for someone to blame for my suffering. I really wanted someone to transfer my hate to, so that I could stop hating myself.

~ Glenn Beck

If God is not the reason, I have no reason! If Jesus Christ is not my friend, I have no friend!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I think I sense a tone of honesty, if honesty exists in this world.

~ Emilyann Girdner