Uncertainties Quotes

In the face of uncertainty there is nothing wrong with hope.

Bernie S. Siegel

I'm delighted that the future is unsure. That's the way it should be.

William Sloane Coffin

Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worst.

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent intolerable uncertainty not knowing what comes next.

Ursula K. LeGuin

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 mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.

R. I. Fitzhenry

In case of doubt decide in favor of what is correct.

When nothing is sure everything is possible.

Margaret Drabble

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.

Faith and doubt both are needed not as antagonists but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we often might win by fearing to attempt.

William Shakespeare

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.

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.

Christian Bovee

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.

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."

The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.

All uncertainly is fruitful... so long as it is accompanied by the wish to understand.

Antonio Machado

Faith hasn't got no eyes but she's long-legged.

Zora Neale Hurston

Maturity of mind is the capacity to endure uncertainty.

Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it you can make it so.

If a man will begin with certainties he shall end in doubts but if he will content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.

I said here's the river I want to flow on here's the direction I want to go and put my boat in. I was ready for the river to take unexpected turns and present obstacles.

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

Nobody can really guarantee the future. The best we can do is size up the chances calculate the risks involved estimate our ability to deal with them and make our plans with confidence.

Every time I think that I'm getting old and gradually going to the grave something else happens.

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.

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.

To Death I yield but not to Doubt who slays before!

Edith M. Thomas

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.

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

Doubts and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination which the steadfast heart will conquer and the large mind transcend.

Doubt indulged soon becomes doubt realized.

Frances Ridley Havergal

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning.

The demand is for certainty is a sign of weakness.

Mark Rutherford

Only a weak mind seeks ultimate answers.

He who forecasts all perils will never sail the sea.

Anonymous

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

Tennessee Williams

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of shore for a very long time.

To teach how to live with uncertainty yet without being paralyzed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy can do.

Bertrand Russell

If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties it may be too late.

The successful man is he who when he sees that no further certainty is attainable promptly decides on the most probable side as if he were completely sure it was right.

Mark Rutherford

Not seeing is half-believing.

Vita Sackville-West

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched-they must be felt with the heart.

There is no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the end from the beginning.

I am a woman who understands the necessity of an impulse whose goal or origin still lie beyond me.

To end with certainty we must begin with doubting.

Gardening is an exercise in optimism.

No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.

Elizabeth Bowen

The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides never decides.

Henri-Frédéric Amiel

There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.

Ah what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!

George Meredith

When I was young I was sure of everything in a few years having been mistaken a thousand times I was not half so sure of most things as I was before at present I am hardly sure of anything but what God has revealed.

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