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Quotes About Uncertainty

When a great ship is in harbor and moored, it is safe, there can be no doubt. But that is not what great ships are built for.
~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes
I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will make sense only in reverse.
~ Philip Yancey
Interviewing is tough, especially if you don't know what you're looking for.
~ Charlyne Yi
I love the gray area between right and wrong.
~ Dan Brown
If we never take a risk, we'll never know the parts of ourselves that would have emerged if we had.
~ Marianne Williamson
Hope for the Best. Expect the worst. Life is a play. We're unrehearsed.
~ Mel Brooks
God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.
~ Karen Blixen
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing.
~ Jim Rohn
People in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not.
~ Neil Postman
We can never know what might have been but what is to come is another matter entirely
~ C.S. Lewis
Time to toss the dice
~ Robert Jordan
Pressure is what you feel when you don't know what's going on.
~ Chuck Noll
You don't fear change. You fear the unknown. If you knew the future would be great, you'd welcome the change to get there. Well, the future IS great. Proceed.
~ Joe Vitale
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
~ Voltaire
There is nothing so uncertain as a sure thing.
~ Scotty Bowman
The greatest risk is the risk of riskless living.
~ Stephen Covey
If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.
~ Seth Godin
Fear is a part of everything you do ... You have to take great risks to get big rewards.
~ Greg Louganis
Be fearless. Have the courage to take risks. Go where there are no guarantees.
~ Katie Couric
We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.
~ C. S. Lewis
We are most often in the dark when we are the most certain, and the most enlightened when we are the most confused.
~ M. Scott Peck
And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt.
~ Jodi Picoult, Change of Heart
Unremarkable lives are marked by the fear of not looking capable when trying something new.
~ Epictetus