Doubts Quotes

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare

Good, Win, Lose

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
Bertrand Russell

Problem, Whole, Themselves

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
Henry David Thoreau

Faith, Doubt, Her

Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you.
Robert Kiyosaki

Face, Open, Fears

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Change, Jealousy, Passion

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Today, Tomorrow, Limit

If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Tell, Opinions, Plenty

I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Yourself, Keep, Anyone

Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.
Sun Tzu

Death, Away, Until

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Jealousy, Doubt, Lives

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
Ambrose Bierce

Failure, Person, Makes

When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead. No need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar our progress. We cannot take more than one step at a time.
Orison Swett Marden

Time, May, Cannot

The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.
Eric Hoffer

Mind, Evil, Person

What I found when I became Secretary of State was a lot of doubts and a lot of concerns and fears from friends, allies, around the world.
Hillary Clinton

Friends, Around, State

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
Thomas Carlyle

Yes, Certainty, Convert

When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love, Often, Believes

Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.
Karl Marx

Medicine, Heals, Diseases

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

God, Men, Wisdom

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
Francis Bacon

End, Shall, Content

What is at a peak is certain to decline. He who shows his hand will surely be defeated. He who can prevail in battle by taking advantage of his enemy's doubts is invincible.
Cao Cao

Enemy, Battle, Hand

Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping.
Ethel Barrymore

Forget, Past, Keep

Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
Ralph Marston

Reality, Goals, Equal

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.
Bono

Equality, Fool, Justice

Doubts are like stains on a shirt. I like shirts with stains, because when I'm given a shirt that's too clean, one that's completely white, I immediately start having doubts.
Antonio Tabucchi

Start, White, Clean

There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.
George Santayana

Far, Against, Courtesy

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
Alexandre Dumas

Failure, Person, Makes

You can tell when something's not moving forward anymore. When the doubts you have about it don't go away.
Jeffrey Eugenides

Forward, Moving, Away

This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.
Neil Gaiman

Work, Human, Might

I've got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.
Bill Watterson

Start, Quiet, Listening

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
Louisa May Alcott

Great, Strong, Weak

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