Quotes About Doubt

The flow of writing is always a surprise and a challenge. Click the computer on and I am 17 again, wanting to write and not knowing if I can.

Well I'm trying to think what I put in... I think I put in 'why?' to see if I'd confuse the computer.

Doubt can motivate you, so don't be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out.

I think anybody goes through a crisis of confidence from time to time. You have to kind of doubt yourself, sometimes. It's the way forward.

I sometimes lack confidence in public, although I am proud enough inwardly.

Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self-confidence and your self-doubt.

To be cautious, one should not take high confidence as any absolute guarantee of anything.

Confidence is a very fragile thing.

You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.

Who lacks confidence speaks lies more readily.

When I tested for Billy Budd, I had that kind of confidence that comes with the certainty that you're not going to get something. I was very rough around the edges.

Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else.

There's no such thing as lack of confidence. You either have it or you don't.

Our greatest weakness is lack of self-confidence.

You can find that sort of regularity in Stock Exchange quotations. [Expressing his lack of confidence in reported regularities in the periodic classification of elements.]

How many people have been thus led, through lack of self-confidence, to stifle their most justified doubts?

An individual who expresses high confidence probably has a good story, which may or may not be true.

As I said, I began losing confidence in my instincts, which is tough and very bad for an instinctive person.

I'm confident. Some people don't like confidence. They resent confidence.

Positive obsession is about not being able to stop just because you're afraid and full of doubts. Positive obsession is dangerous. It's about not being able to stop at all.

It is so hard that one cannot really have confidence in doctors and yet cannot do without them.

Some people are confident because they are fools. Leonard had the look of someone who was confident because, so far, he'd never found a reason not to be.

Confidence by itself, unless it has a valid basis, can get us into trouble.

Confidence cannot find a place wherein to rest in safety.