Doubt Quotes


Doubt quotes cast different shadows on sometimes confusion emotion. Some call it friend, others foe. I vote with Oprah Winfrey who says, “Doubt means don’t.” Follow your intuition and heart when doubt speaks loudest. On the other hand, don’t let fear-based doubts hold you back from pursuing your dreams.



Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we often might win, by fearing to attempt.
Jane Addams

Doubt everything. Find your own light.
Buddha

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.
Buddha

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Dale Carnegie

He who possesses the source of enthusiasm will achieve great things. Doubt not. You will gather friends around you as a hair clasp gathers the hair.
I Ching

Don’t waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you well assured that the right performance of this hour’s duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Doubt is a pain too lovely to know that faith is his twin brother.
Kahlil Gibran

Neither in this world nor elsewhere is there any happiness in store for him who always doubts.
Bhagavad Gita

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
Cynthia Heimel

Wonder, rather than doubt, is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Heschel

The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid of making one.
Elbert Hubbard

Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Samuel Johnson

It is an act of courage to acknowledge our own uncertainty and sit with it for a while.
Harriet Goldhor Lerner

He who hesitates because he feels inferior is being surpassed by he who is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.
Henry Link

The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt, but in spite of doubt.
Rollo May

Nothing will kill what you've been called to do more than comparing yourself to someone else.
Beth Moore

If you’re not confused, you’re not paying attention.
Tom Peters

The worst enemy of creativity is self-doubt.
Sylvia Plath

It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stuffing and unexpected findings of science.
Carl Sagan

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

If you are going to doubt something, doubt your limits.
Don Ward

Doubt means don’t. Don’t move. Don’t answer. Don’t rush forward.
Oprah Winfrey



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