Quotes About Doubt

It's your own fear of failure that stops you from doing things.

Discouragement, fear, doubt, lack of self-confidence, are the germs which have killed the prosperity and happiness of tens of thousands of people.

Fear leads to more fear, and trust leads to more trust.

Doctor, do you think it could have been the sausage?

Do not taste food while you're cooking. You may lose your nerve to serve it.

Unbelief starves the soul; faith finds food in famine.

Theres nothing to fear but fears themselves, such as monsters, rejection, food poisoning, redundancy, monsters, and oxford commas.

Creativity requires the freedom to consider unthinkable alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices.

It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.

The spirit of liberty is the spirit that is not quite sure it is right.

The greatest act of self-revelation occurs when we choose what we will believe, in that space of freedom that exists between knowing that a thing is, and knowing that a thing is not.

It is difficult to call myself a writer, even when I stand at a podium to receive a prize, I feel uncomfortable calling myself a writer—I am merely a word criminal.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

Most of us, I suppose, are a little nervous of the sea. No matter what its smiles may be, we doubt its friendship.

Someone will always tell you what you want to hear.

Nothing wounds a friend like a want of confidence.

What will it take for you to believe in me, the way that I believe in you?

Psyche you out?" I repeat. "I'm your FRIEND. I wouldn't do that." He doesn't say anything. I can tell he doesn't believe me-not quite.

It doesn't feel like a date. It doesn't feel like friendship. It feels like something that fell off the tightrope but hasn't yet hit the net.

My friend thought he was not gonna make it. Then he started thinking positive. Now he's positive he's not gonna make it.

Tell a man that there are 400 billion stars and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint and he has to touch it.

...and the funny thing was that people who weren't entirely certain they were right always argued much louder than other people, as if the main person they were trying to convince were themselves.

I have a friend. He keeps trying to convince me he's a compulsive liar, but I don't believe him.

One time a cop pulled me over for running a stop sign. He said, "Didn't you see the stop sign?" I said, "Yeah, but I don't believe everything I read"