Quotes About Uncertainty

Take a chance and you may lose. Take not a chance and you have lost already.

So many people are frightened to take a chance in life and there's so many chances you have to take.

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

If we do everything right, if we do it with absolute certainty, there's still a 30% chance we're going to get it wrong.

The pleasure of rooting for Goliath is that you can expect to win. The pleasure of rooting for David is that, while you don't know what to expect, you stand at least a chance of being inspired.

But chance runs like a river through all our lives, and being prepared for surprise is the best we can do.

There is irreducible chance in the universe.

We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events.

Those who won't take a chance don't have a chance.

A throw of the dice will never abolish chance.

I'm attracted to Ferraris and Bentleys, but I don't know if I'll ever have a chance to own one of those.

You think we stand a chance? (Delphine) Like an icicle on the equator. (Phobos)

The more we lose, the more he'll fly in. And the more he flies in, the better the chance there'll be a plane crash.

Photography is an ambiguous challenge to chance.

Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know.

With great care we might have a dog's chance, but no more.

Tomorrow is not a promise, but a chance.

Future is an unknown country which requires tough visas for anyone to enter. Not all of us will get the chance to visit it.

The spiritual journey involves going beyond hope and fear, stepping into unknown territory, continually moving forward. The most important aspect of being on the spiritual path may be to just keep moving.

Sticking with uncertainty is how we learn to relax in the midst of chaos, how we learn to be cool when the ground beneath us suddenly disappears. We can bring ourselves back to the spiritual path countless times every day simply by exercising our willingness to rest in the uncertainty of the present moment—over and over again.

In the world of hope and fear, we always have to change the channel, change the temperature, change the music, because something is getting uneasy, something is getting restless, something is beginning to hurt, and we keep looking for alternatives.

But the truth is that we can never avoid uncertainty. This not knowing is part of the adventure, and it's also what makes us afraid. Bodhichitta

That's what we're going to discover again and again and again. Nothing is what we thought.

We fear losing our illusion of security—that's what makes us anxious.