Every time I think that I'm getting old and gradually going to the grave something else happens.
~ Lillian Carter
Many live in dread of what is coming. Why should we? The unknown puts adventure into life. ... The unexpected around the corner gives a sense of anticipation and surprise. Thank God for the unknown future.
~ E. Stanley Jones
I think I look good out there. I'm strong powerful and artistic. But I have my doubts as much as anyone.
~ Jill Trenary
If I ever felt inclined to be timid as I was going into a room full of people I would say to myself You're the cleverest member of one of the cleverest families in the cleverest class of the cleverest nation. ... Why should you be frightened?
~ Beatrice Potter Webb
Action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve.
~ Tehyi Hsieh
Soon after a heart-wrung decision something inevitably occurs to cast doubt on your choice. Holding steady against that doubt usually proves your decision.
~ R. I. Fitzhenry
Doubt breeds doubt.
~ Franz Grillparzer
It's the moment you think you can't that you realize you can.
~ Celine Dion
From a shy timid girl I had become a woman of resolute character who could no longer be frightened by the struggle with troubles.
~ Anna Dostoevsky
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
~ Kahlil Gibran
Doubts and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination which the steadfast heart will conquer and the large mind transcend.
~ Helen Keller
Doubt indulged soon becomes doubt realized.
~ Frances Ridley Havergal
When one devotes oneself to meditation mental burdens unnecessary worries and wandering thoughts drop off one by one life seems to run smoothly and pleasantly. A student may now depend on intuition to make decisions. As one acts on intuition second thought with its dualism doubt and hesitation does not arise.
~ Nyogen Senzaki
In doubt fear is the worst of prophets.
~ Statius
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.
~ Franklin Delano Roosevelt
In case of doubt decide in favor of what is correct.
~ Karl Kraus
Faith and doubt both are needed not as antagonists but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.
~ Lillian Smith
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we often might win by fearing to attempt.
~ William Shakespeare
A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.
~ William Wrigley
When in doubt do it.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
Yes I have doubted. I have wandered off the path but I always return. It is intuitive an intrinsic built-in sense of direction. I seem always to find my way home.
~ Helen Hayes
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Doubt whom you will but never yourself.
~ Christian Bovee
Self distrust is the cause of most of our failures. In the assurance of strength there is strength and they are the weakest however strong who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.
Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever.
~ Nancy Kerrigan
To be ambitious for wealth and yet always expecting to be poor to be always doubting your ability to get what you long for is like trying to reach east by traveling west. There is no philosophy which will help a man to succeed when he is always doubting his ability to do so and thus attracting failure. No matter how hard you work for success if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure it will kill your efforts neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible.
~ Charles Baudouin
Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.
~ William Congreve
I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my chin practically to my chest and look up at Bogie. That was the beginning of The Look.
~ Lauren Bacall
When nothing is sure everything is possible.
~ Margaret Drabble
Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.
The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
~ Erich Fromm
All uncertainly is fruitful... so long as it is accompanied by the wish to understand.
~ Antonio Machado
I'm delighted that the future is unsure. That's the way it should be.
~ William Sloane Coffin
When we are not sure we are alive.
~ Graham Greene
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worst.
~ Albert Camus
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent intolerable uncertainty not knowing what comes next.
~ Ursula K. Leguin
In the face of uncertainty there is nothing wrong with hope.
~ Bernie S. Siegel
Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.
~ Sun Tzu
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
~ François De La Rochefoucauld
