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Quotes About Certainty

The strength of your faith is not measured by the absence of doubt, but by the faithfulness of your life in the face of doubt.
~ Nicky Gumbel
Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.
~ Hermann Hesse
Love must not entreat,' she added, 'or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract.
~ Hermann Hesse
To seek out in a world full of joy the one thing that is certain to give you pain, and hug it to your bosom with all your strength; that's the greatest human happiness.
~ Jean Giraudoux
My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
~ Malcolm Muggeridge
There can be no faith without doubt. No strength without temptation. (Rafael)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
You know what I know, Mally. Now you must decide what to believe.
~ M.L. LeGette, For the Kingdom
The stress that some of us feel - it's a lack of faith, it really is.
~ Francis Chan
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
~ Bertrand Russell
Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security
~ John Allen Paulos
I witness that as you gain experience and success in being guided by the Spirit, your confidence in the impressions you feel can become more certain than your dependence on what you see or hear.
~ Richard G. Scott
Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for.
~ Jennifer Lopez
A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards.
~ Karl Kraus
And will you succeed? Yes indeed, yes indeed! Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed!
~ Dr. Seuss
All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.
~ Mark Twain
Fourth Law of Thermodynamics: If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero.
~ David R. Ellis
According to the moral absolutism that characterizes McCandless's beliefs, a challenge in which a successful outcome is assured isn't a challenge at all.
~ Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
Act as if success is certain.
~ Price Pritchett
It was revealed to me many years ago with conclusive certainty that I was a fool and that I had always been a fool. Since then I have been as happy as any man has a right to be.
~ Alastair Sim
Pour réussir dans la science, il faut douter; pour réussir dans la vie, il faut être sûr. To succeed in science, one must doubt; to succeed in life, one must be sure.
~ Leo Errera
I'm confident and I trust my instincts.
~ Sachin Tendulkar
The demon which had whispered this idea to him would not leave him, buzzing in his ear with that persistence which rapidly ensures that some doubts, by the sole force of reasoning, become certainties.
~ Alexandre Dumas
You speak like the Apocalypse, and you are as true as the Gospel. There
~ Alexandre Dumas
When justice is more certain and more mild, is at the same time more efficacious.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville