Doubt Quotes

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

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Undelivered address for Jefferson Day, 13 Apr. 1945, final lines, in Public Papers (1950) vol. 13, p. 616

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• Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever.

  Nancy Lopez

  Fear, Positivity, Doubting Everything

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• Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The only thing that can stop you is the doubt that you carry in your mind.

  William C. Richardson

  Success, Mind

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• The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.

  Peter Abelard

  Success, Faith, Motivation

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  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

  Education, Confidence, Wisdom

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• Sometimes I think it is my mission to bring faith to the faithless, and doubt to the faithful.

  Paul Tillich

  Thinking, Faithful, Existentialism

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• Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.

  Paul Tillich

  Faith, Opposites, Elements

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• Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.

  Dan Millman

  Inspirational, Motivational, Fear

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• Doubt comes to the door in darkness, pretending to be alone and in need of your compassionate ear. But if you let him in, he'll bring his friends.

  Julia Cameron

  Doors, Darkness, Needs

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• Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Term, When In Doubt

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.

  Clarence Darrow

  Wisdom, Children, Teaching

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• If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

  Rene Descartes

  Life, Truth, Real

  "Principles of Philosophy". Book by Rene Descartes, 1644.

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• The lens of fear magnifies the size of uncertainty.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Fear, Anxiety, Lenses

  Charles R. Swindoll (2012). “Perfect Trust”, p.30, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

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• Doubt is the shadow of truth.

  Philip James Bailey

  Shadow

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• Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Faith, Atheist

  Voltaire (1919). “Voltaire in His Letters: Being a Selection from His Correspondence”

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  Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

  Margaret Mead

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

  Margaret Mead, Robert B. Textor (2005). “The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future”, p.12, Berghahn Books

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• Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.

  Dale Carnegie

  Confidence, Fear, Weight Loss

  Dale Carnegie (2017). “How to enjoy your life and your job”, p.13, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Faith doesn't mean you never doubt. It only means you never act upon your doubts.

  Orson Scott Card

  Mean

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• It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Faith, Jesus, Children

  "Kierkegaard, the Melancholy Dane". Book by Harold Victor Martin, 1950.

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• Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.

  Alan Alda

  Motivational, Smile, Laughter

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

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  William Shakespeare (1838). “The Pictorial edition of the works of Shakspere, ed. by C. Knight. [8 vols., including a vol. entitled William Shakspere, by C. Knight].”, p.281

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• There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Buddhism, People

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• There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Inspirational, Faith, Honesty

  'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 96

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