Quotes About Doubt

Will, therefore, is the unbroken determination to exercise free choice as well as self-restraint, in spite of the unavoidable experience of shame and doubt in infancy.

When I was young, I was just about hard work. But as I got older, I did experience anxiety, doubt, judgment, and it's so easy to lose yourself for a second.

Of course one never knows in draft if it's going to turn out, even with my age and experience.

...the incredulity of mankind, who do not truly believe in anything new until they have had actual experience of it.

Based on past experience, I hope not.

I know from vast experience that fear talks a lot louder than courage. I need to listen to that other voice inside me, that faint one that's struggling to be heard.

It was never a big leap from "unfamiliar" to "suspected

We are neurotically haunted today by the imminence, and by the ignominy, of failure. We know at how frightening a cost one succeeds: to fail is something too awful to think about.

The main cause of failure is the inability to deal with self-doubt.

If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this.

Everything looks like a failure in the middle. In neary every change project, doubt is cast on the original vision because problems are mounting and the end is nowhere in sight.

I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.

The biggest enemies we have to overcome on the road to success are not a lack of ability and a lack of opportunity but fears of failure and rejection and the doubts that they trigger.

To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.

I have a fear of failure.

The fearful are the failing.

The fall of the Berlin Wall really demonstrated beyond the shadow of a doubt that there was a bad system, and what subsequently happened in the Soviet Union, that that system was a failure.

People will still make great art, but I think it's good to assume you will always be a failure. People were believing the opposite.

Doubt is one of the main paths on the highway to failure.

By the end of the first decade of writing, I considered myself a confirmed failure in the eyes of the world.

The obstacles that distract thought are disease, apathy, doubt, carelessness, indolence, dissipation, false vision, failure to attain a firm basis in yoga, and restlessness.

I think the greatest taboos in America are faith and failure.

His thoughts flicked between the confidence of the Anyala Stone, the expectations of his world, and, the certainty of his failure.

But all you see is the crap. So you don't have to believe in anything. So you'll have an excuse to fail.