Quotes About Doubt

He wished he could've explained some of this. How he had been braver than he ever thought possible, but how he had not been so brave as he wanted to be. The distinction was important.

What wonderful minds we have, even though they don't seem to get us anywhere, or make us happy.

It took Descartes to deduce that God would not wish to deceive us. The world must be as it appears to be, the Frenchman deduced, because a perfect God would never wish to deceive us. Nothing has been explicable since.

Once Presley grabbed hold, he spoke like an oracle, your new teen mentor, sitting on your shoulder, urging you to embrace romance, kiss that girl, and take a thousand other risks, even as his doubt and hesitation whispered uncertainty and dread.

If you can tolerate fear and doubt and loneliness… Winning would like a word with you.

All day, every day, your mental battlefield is attacked by blasts of adrenaline and anger and fear and anxiety, and other explosives too. Stress. Insecurity. Doubt. Envy. Sometimes it's a stranger who puts them there. Sometimes it's someone close to you. Sometimes it's you. Most of the time, it's you.

Confidence is about taking chances, and never doubting the outcome.

So everything I do is to minimize the risk of that happening. That helps me fight the mental urge to doubt myself, to create problems that haven't happened and overthink everything that could go wrong.

There are four components of Winning that determine how you'll manage your fears and doubts and make that leap, or if you'll make it at all. Talent. Intelligence. Competitiveness. Resilience.

Fear shows up on its own. Doubt has to be invited. Fear heightens your awareness; it makes you alert. Doubt is the opposite; it slows you down and paralyzes your thinking.

The course of my life had been in doubt for so long that I always had to assess my emotions. This was new. It felt real, mature, and I didn't want to let it dissolve into juvenile memories as the others had. Damn! Kara made me feel like a man! That was what I'd been looking for!

Lazlo doesn't believe in seatbelts. He says they show a serious lack of faith in a driver.

Sometimes the crowd is right; often it is wrong. It remains for science to read the balance.

When I say my prayers I have a terrible doubt. How can I be sure God is forgiving me? What if he will forgive me, but hasn't forgiven me yet? That's why I don't want to die, Sir. That's why I can't die. Not until I am sure. Are you sure?

Faith is groping at air during the fall, hoping to find something to grab on to.

I am beginning to believe that nothing is quite so uncertain as facts. (Edward Curtis)

People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.

Most people are fast to stop you before you get started but hesitate to get in the way if you're moving.

WHEN 99% OF PEOPLE DOUBT YOU, YOU'RE EITHER GRAVELY WRONG OR ABOUT TO MAKE HISTORY.

Most people are fast to stop you before you get started but hesitant to get in the way if you're moving.

Most people will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.

Suelo saber si voy bien encaminado con algo cuando siento un poco de miedo. Me digo: "Caray, podría estropearlo".»

Cuando el 99 por ciento de la gente duda de ti, es porque o estás completamente equivocado, o estás a punto de hacer historia.»

Don't believe everything you think." –BJ Miller, MD